Hi,
I'm planning to design some semi-automated tools for (Yuk!) Y2K processing
of (quite) a few files.
I'm trying to determine what my language choices are. Currently I have a
bias towards using a functional language to implement these programs, but
a) this decision has yet to be finalized;
b) one important argument will be available expertise, literature or
related applications that can demonstrate advantages of using a functional
language, resources to fall back on, including human resources,
c) I will also have to decide between Haskell, SML and OCaml (I'm also
considering Beta as an alternative).
Are there known Haskell applications, projects or literature that could be
consulted in order to determine whether Haskell would be a good choice?
If any of you have a moment time and an opinion they would like to share,
it would be of tremendous value to me.
Briefly, these are the requirements:
a) Language specification plug-in technology (to be implemented?),
b) rules defining suspicious code for the chosen language,
c) parsing files based on a + b,
d) either batch or interactive generation of flags that indicate
problematic code,
e) editor with syntax support based on (a) and automated browsing (jumping
from code to variables, function or procedure declarations to
implementation, graphical display of dependancies)
f) version control tools.
Is Haskell a good language to implement any or all of these features? If
not all features, is it complicated to interface existing Haskell
implementations to languages more capable of handling some feature(s)?
TIA
Elan
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