Re: [Haskell-cafe] How difficult would creating a collaborative multi-user online virtual world application be in Haskell?

2009-05-07 Thread Andrew Wagner
This reminds me of a server app I saw recently in a language called Clojure. Clojure is a relatively new lisp variant targeting the JVM, and has a home-grown STM layer built into the language. Anyway, the app I saw was a (admittedly didactic-focused) multi-threaded MUD server (google

Re: [Haskell-cafe] How difficult would creating a collaborative multi-user online virtual world application be in Haskell?

2009-05-07 Thread Bryan O'Sullivan
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 3:28 AM, Benjamin L.Russell dekudekup...@yahoo.comwrote: One question that has been coming up at the back of my mind for the past several weeks has been how difficult would it be to create a collaborative multi-user online virtual world application in Haskell. It

Re: [Haskell-cafe] How difficult would creating a collaborative multi-user online virtual world application be in Haskell?

2009-05-07 Thread wren ng thornton
Benjamin L.Russell wrote: Unfortunately, Smalltalk is an object-oriented language. If possible, I would like to see something similar in a functional programming language such as Haskell. Does anybody know whether duplicating this project in Haskell would be feasible? In terms of technical