Hi, You can take the xmonad approach: the configuration file is written in Haskell and compiled, so no need for another language.
Cheers, Thu 2010/5/3 Martin Erwig <er...@eecs.oregonstate.edu>: > One of my students has worked on scripting approach in Haskell: > > http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~erwig/papers/abstracts.html#SLE09 > > -- > Martin > > > On May 3, 2010, at 9:51 AM, Limestraël wrote: > >> Hello Café, >> >> I don't know if you know conky. It's a well-known open-source system monitor >> (a software that displays information on the desktop, like CPU frequency, >> disk usage, network rate, etc.). >> It is quite good, but it's very descriptive, and even if you can call shell >> commands it's clearly not made for being scripted. >> What I would do is to make a similar system monitor, which base would be >> compiled Haskell code, but that would be scriptable with some DSL, or >> already existing interpreted language. >> I've thought about a Lisp/Scheme language, since those languages are >> functional, dynamically typed and simple (so enable a quick scripting) and >> I'm not very keen on making my own DSL >> >> What I would like to know is: >> 1) If you have other solutions >> 2) How do haskellers usually script their applications >> _______________________________________________ >> Haskell-Cafe mailing list >> Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org >> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
