-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 7/3/10 05:22 , Andrew Coppin wrote: > Besides, why in the world do Haskell libraries have to involve C? I've > written and released several libraries on Hackage, none of which are in any > way related to C. Not every library is just a C binding, you know...
Mainly because they're complex and already exist (and are often heavily optimized already); consider gtk2hs for the former and BLAS/LAPACK for the latter. You *really, really* don't want to have to reimplement any of those as pure Haskell, trust me on this :) - -- brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] allb...@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allb...@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkwvBu4ACgkQIn7hlCsL25UYmgCcCBXIk7MY51onQ8H/jPdSE9Hg BgsAmwZFRt8ryjI+jk5K4KrzCfhSRQZn =vdia -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
