Hi Hal and others, We would like to hear your thoughts on the viability of a conference or workshop dedicated to applications of Haskell for non-Haskell purposes.
On Saturday 30 August 2003 01:39, Hal Daume III wrote: > I'm attempting to get a sense of the topology of the Haskell > community. Based on the Haskell Communities & Activities reports, it > seems that the large majority of people use Haskell for Haskell's sake. This bias seems to exist not only in the Communities & Activities reports, but also in the Haskell mailing lists and in the Haskell-related events, such as the Haskell Workshop. One could easily deduce that Haskell is still very much an academic language, of interest to language _designers_ more than to language _users_. However, the reactions to your inquiry about use of Haskell for non-Haskell purposes suggests that a significant group of language _users_ does actually exist, though their voice is not heard too often. We think (hope) there could be room for a "Haskell One" event, quite a bit more modest than JavaOne, but similarly intended to bring together Haskell Developers. Submissions would be explicitly judged by how practical and how "proven" the described technology is. Experience reports would be more than welcome. There could be interactive tool-demo's, hands-on lab sessions, a programming contest, etc. If the focus is on applications only (excluding theory, language-design, and anything that is Haskell-for-Haskell's sake), this HaskellOne event could maybe be a satelite to PLI. We are interested to know your thoughts on such an event, and whether the outcome of your poll suggests it could be viable. Regards, Joost Visser & Jo�o Saraiva PS: If sufficient interest exists, we are willing to contribute to the origanization. -- Dr. ir. Joost Visser | Departamento de Inform�tica phone +351-253-604461 | Universidade do Minho fax +351-253-604471 | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mobile +351-91-6253618 | http://alfa.di.uminho.pt/~joost.visser _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
