Re: [Haskell-cafe] killer app sought

2009-10-04 Thread John A. De Goes
With few exceptions, no such thing as a killer server-side app. The Web 3.0 paradigm is simple: all work except sharing and persistence of data is done on the client. Regards, John A. De Goes N-Brain, Inc. The Evolution of Collaboration http://www.n-brain.net|877-376-2724 x 101

Fwd: [Haskell-cafe] killer app sought

2009-10-04 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Yes, Maybe The piece of the web that desperately need a boost in performance, declarativeness, safety, static typing threading, modularity etc etc etc is the Web Browser. 2009/10/4 John A. De Goes j...@n-brain.net With few exceptions, no such thing as a killer server-side app. The Web 3.0

Re: [Haskell-cafe] killer app sought

2009-10-04 Thread Keith Sheppard
IMO google web toolkit has done this for Java and I haven't tried it but maybe http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_in_web_browser does or will do this for Haskell. I still think that there is a place for web applications that are smart on the server side though. Best -Keith On Sun, Oct 4,

[Haskell-cafe] killer app sought

2009-10-03 Thread Mark Wotton
Hi, I've been writing a little binding from Ruby to Haskell called Hubris (http://github.com/mwotton/Hubris ) which I think has some potential both for making Haskell web apps easier to write, and also for bringing the more adventurous Ruby programmers into the Haskell community. Code-wise

Re: [Haskell-cafe] killer app sought

2009-10-03 Thread Keith Sheppard
I think having access to the parsec library would be a major plus that you can show off. Eg: you can have a RoR based email web app that uses parsec parsing to figure out which sections of an email thread belong to which author... Best -Keith On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Mark Wotton

Re: [Haskell-cafe] killer app sought

2009-10-03 Thread James Britt
Mark Wotton wrote: Hi, I've been writing a little binding from Ruby to Haskell called Hubris (http://github.com/mwotton/Hubris) which I think has some potential both for making Haskell web apps easier to write, and also for bringing the more adventurous Ruby programmers into the Haskell

Re: [Haskell-cafe] killer app sought

2009-10-03 Thread Mark Wotton
On 04/10/2009, at 4:22 PM, James Britt wrote: Mark Wotton wrote: So, I'm asking you guys. What are some really nice Haskell libraries or apps that could benefit from being shown off in one of the plethora of slick, mature web frameworks that exist in Ruby? Manuel Chakravarty