I understand your frustration at not having free tested libs ready-to-go, Java/any-other-mainstream-language programmers tend to expect this and usually get it.
If a lack of libs is a dealbreaker for you and you want to use a functional programming language with some of Haskell's advantages (like immutability, lazy data structures and STM) I encourage you to check out Clojure [1] a nicely designed Lisp. It is tightly integrated in to the JVM and you have access to all the Java libs you want. -deech [1] http://clojure.org/ 2010/10/27 Günther Schmidt <gue.schm...@web.de> > Hi Malcolm, > > well if I would like to point out that, for instance, Haskell exists for a > lot more than 10 years now, and that, while the language per se rocks, and > there are cool tools (cabal) and libraries (list, Set, Map), there still > isn't even a mail client library, I wonder whom to escalate this to, and who > is going to do something about it. > > I understand some parties wish to avoid success at all costs, while others, > commercial users, benefit from the edge haskell gives them already and which > probably can help themselves in case of, again, for instance a missing mail > client library. > > And then there is the ones like me, which also want to benefit from the > edge Haskell gives them over users of other languages and want to develop > Real World Apps and who cannot easily help themselves in case of a missing > mail client library. > > > So while there are many aspects of the future of haskell, who effectively > is it that steers the boat? > > Günther > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >
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