On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 10:47:33 -0800 >>>>>> "Conal" == Conal Elliott wrote:
Conal> I'm adopting this term "denotative" from Peter Landin's seminal Conal> paper "The Next 700 Programming Languages". See Conal> http://conal.net/blog/posts/is-haskell-a-purely-functional-language/#comment-35882. Conal> Previously I've been using the alternative "denotational". Thanks for the reference. Conal> I expect that even libraries like wx/gtk+ *can* be used as part Conal> of a faithful implementation of denotative GUI programming, if Conal> we take great care to insulate our denotation from the complex Conal> semantics of those libraries. However, this insulation may be so Conal> difficult to establish and maintain that it's easier to start Conal> from scratch. It would be good to be able to use those libs considering that Haskell community (at the moment) does not even have evenough man-power to adequately maintain language bindings, what to speak of developing & maintaining the whole toolkit. Otoh, I'm aware it won't come soon... Sincerely, Gour -- Gour | Hlapicina, Croatia | GPG key: F96FF5F6 ----------------------------------------------------------------
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