Re: [Haskell-cafe] Language Workbenches - the Haskell solution?

2005-09-13 Thread Yitzchak Gale
Correction - I wrote: If you want a GUI for configuration, you could, for example, write a fairly simple transformation of the master XML into a .NET dialog, or glade file for GTK, or whatever. We never did that, though. Actually, Yael Weinbach wrote a beautiful GUI for this configuration

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Language Workbenches - the Haskell solution?

2005-09-12 Thread yoann padioleau
On 12 sept. 05, at 00:50, Ralf Lammel wrote:- XML wasn't mentioned in your message. I wonder whether they discuss itin the actual thread. (Yes, you might be saying XML is not the sameYes, fowler mentionned XML: "XML has its uses, but isn't exactly easy to read. We could make it easier to see

RE: [Haskell-cafe] Language Workbenches - the Haskell solution?

2005-09-12 Thread Ralf Lammel
Yoann, Thanks for your comments. Yoann wrote: I dont think XML is a good idea for files that are managed/edited by humans. I think the users prefer simpler files with a custom syntax, and the user is the king. I dont mind, but when you say user do you mean application

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Language Workbenches - the Haskell solution?

2005-09-12 Thread Yitzchak Gale
Ralf Lammel wrote: XML... I wonder whether they discuss it... yoann padioleau wrote: Yes, fowler mentionned XML: XML has its uses, but isn't exactly easy to read... I dont think XML is a good idea for files that are managed/edited by humans. It can be very human readable if set up

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Language Workbenches - the Haskell solution?

2005-09-11 Thread David Menendez
Yoel Jacobsen writes: It seems that Martin Fowler's article Language Workbenches: The killer-App for Domain Specific Languages? - http://www.martinfowler.com/articles/languageWorkbench.html - has generated some nice dynamic solution where a configuration file is written in the same

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Language Workbenches - the Haskell solution?

2005-09-11 Thread Cale Gibbard
On 08/09/05, Yoel Jacobsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems that Martin Fowler's article Language Workbenches: The killer-App for Domain Specific Languages? - http://www.martinfowler.com/articles/languageWorkbench.html - has generated some nice dynamic solution where a configuration file is

RE: [Haskell-cafe] Language Workbenches - the Haskell solution?

2005-09-11 Thread Ralf Lammel
Hi Yoel, This looks like fun. Just some general comments: - One should try to *also* provide a simple solution. Here I would pick a solution that doesn't need a lot of explanation (of Haskell and the solution) and a lot of defense to score with it. - As a second step, one should identify a