Re: [Haskell] writing a shell in Haskell

2009-01-13 Thread Bas van Dijk
Have a look at John Goerzen's HSH and Thomas Hartman's HSHHelpers: http://software.complete.org/software/wiki/hsh/ http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/HSH http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/HSHHelpers regards, Bas __

[Haskell] writing a shell in Haskell

2009-01-13 Thread Norman Ramsey
As a demo for the first day of class, I thought I'd try to write a simple shell in Haskell, in part so I can show algebraic data types and monads on the first day, but also to convince potential skeptics that functional languages can do systemsy things. All the usual functional stuff is going very