Am Samstag, 4. März 2006 21:30 schrieb Neil Mitchell:
And a related question is: Which packages are searchable by Hoogle?
The best answer to that is "some". I intentionally excluded OpenGL and
other graphics ones because they have a large interface and yet are
not used by most people using Haskell. [...]
Well, this a bold assumption IMHO, and I'm not particularly happy with that,
as you can probably imagine. For my part, I would assume that Joe Programmer
is much more likely to use some multimedia packages than TH or Data.Graph.*
etc., but this is a bold assumption on *my* side...
...
Well, this a bold assumption IMHO, and I'm not particularly
happy with that, as you can probably imagine.
I would also imagine that Joe Programmer is more likely to use
wxHaskell or Gtk2Hs than those - however because those are outside the
standard tree they don't make it in. I don't think much of TH made it
in either (not becuase of deliberate exclusions, but because of
technical limitations in the tool).
When I surveyed Haskell users, I asked respondents to name the most
important tools and libraries they use. (Caveat: respondents saw the
list of tools and libraries already named, and could include these just
by selecting them, so tools mentioned early in the survey were more
likely to be named by subsequent respondents). Here are a few relevant
entries, where the percentage is the proportion of respondents who named
the tool:
29% Parsec
19% wxHaskell
16% QuickCheck
16% haddock
12% Monadic Parser Combinators
11% Gtk2Hs
9% hs-plugins
8% HaXml
7% Data.*
7% Monad foundation classes
6% Arrows
6% HOpenGL
The list includes all libraries named by more than 5% of respondents.
Sure enough, wxHaskell and Gtk2Hs are more popular, but 6% naming
HOpenGL as among the "most important" libraries is quite respectable.
John
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