On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 05:39:09PM -0700, Hal Daume III wrote: > If you use Haskell for a purpose *other than* one of those listed below, > I'd love to hear.
In my job (website traffic measurement) the official programming language is C++ (also PHP and Java, but I don't touch these) and AFAIK I am the only one that knows and likes Haskell here. Because of this I can use Haskell only for programs which are not critical for the company. I would rather use Haskell for a couple of applications I have done in C++, but there are applications with performance requirements beyond GHC's abilities, I'm afraid (for example imagine a database with more than 10,000,000,000 records, about 400,000,000 updates/inserts every day, many statistics which have to be recomputed after updates, and this has to work on an off-the-shelf PC :). So far I have used Haskell for such not-for-haskell's-sake tasks: - various networking applications For example, I created a pure (concurrent) haskell dns resolver library which I find very efficient for resolving tons of IP addresses. I parse DNS messages declaratively using Parsec :). It's a bit incomplete now, but someday I will fix this. As I have written it in my free time, I can release it as open source. - creating prototype web interfaces based on WASH for presenting statistics computed by other programs - text/data processing, like converting files from one format to another, or performing transformations of simple databases in text files - general scripting (things I would do in Perl two years ago) - implementing algorithms which would be tiresome to do in C++ and/or don't have to be (crashing :) so fast - making prototypes of algoritms, ideas, etc. - various calculations in GHCi - etc. It's about 20 KLOC of code in total (without the throw-away ones). Best regards, Tom -- .signature: Too many levels of symbolic links _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
