On 3 Jul 2010, at 03:39, Don Stewart wrote: > ivan.miljenovic: >>>> Hmm, interesting. Applicative and Traversable are two classes I've never >>>> used and don't really understand the purpose of. I have no idea what >>>> hsc2hs is. I keep hearing finger trees mentioned, but only in connection >>>> to papers that I can't access. So I guess that means that I don't count >>>> as a "knowledgable" Haskell programmer. :-( >>> >>> RWH is free and online, and covers many useful things. There's no >>> excuse :-) >> >> Knowing about something /= knowing how to use it. I own and have read >> RWH, but I've never had to use hsc2hs, or Applicative, etc. >> > > Writing libraries that bind to C is a great way to have to use a lot of > hsc2hs (or c2hs), so clearly you need to contribute more libraries :-)
Alternatively, they're already busy contributing lots of purely functional libraries, instead of doing (still valuable) work getting C cludges working. Bob_______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe