Hi aditya,
thanks for the tip. No, I must admit a deal breaker it is not, giving
all the advantages of haskell on the one hand I think I'd be able to
life with something half baked.
Günther
Am 29.10.10 06:53, schrieb aditya siram:
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<[email protected]>
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
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