Re: Growing Haskell Platform

2012-12-06 Thread Michael Snoyman
On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Mark Lentczner wrote: > In my Haskell Implementors 2012 talk Haskell Platform: Field Report and > Future Goals, I called for an expansion of the content of the platform to > bring it up to par with what other programming language platforms provide. > > Please see my

Re: Growing Haskell Platform

2012-12-06 Thread Thomas DuBuisson
Crypto is rather well addressed by Vincent's packages (crypto{cipher,hash}). Please don't use Crypto as it's not really for production use. In some cases we could do with high performance bindings to C instead of pure Haskell, and I'm willing to put in a little effort to see that happen. The sta

Growing Haskell Platform

2012-12-06 Thread Mark Lentczner
In my Haskell Implementors 2012 talk Haskell Platform: Field Report and Future Goals, I called for an expansion of the content of the platform to bring it up to par with what other programming language platforms provide. Please see my blog post today: http://mtnviewmark.wordpress.com/2012/12/06/gr