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From: "Gorka Guardiola" <paurea@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] What about Haskell? [was: How can I use alef?]
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:41:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <599f06db0811201041v7c156522ia839a473985b4875@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e1d437a40811200856h5aa20556i78fc5a1d5168f42f@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Giacomo Tesio <giacomo@tesio.it> wrote:
> I'm completely new to Functional Languages (actually I'm not understanding
> whether they are useful in real world, or just to enance ones mind).
>
> But I'm studing Haskell, and I saw that it was ported to Plan 9.
>
> Without starting a flame war, I'd like to know if some of you think it could
> be useful on a Plan 9 grid/environment.
>
>
> Giacomo
> PS: stream of consciousness was: limbo -> erlang (which I took a look) ->
> haskell
>

Some time ago I ported gofer (a predecessor to haskell) to Plan 9 (APE) for
my use. I liked it because it was simpler than haskell. We used it for a while
in some autoconfiguration things in Plan B and I used it for math stuff
I was doing. If you are interested in getting it drop me a line.
--
- curiosity sKilled the cat



      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-11-20 18:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-20 16:56 Giacomo Tesio
2008-11-20 17:15 ` Roman Zhukov
2008-11-20 17:23   ` matt
2008-11-20 19:42     ` Iruata Souza
2008-11-21  0:09       ` David Leimbach
2008-11-21  4:11         ` Fernan Bolando
2008-11-21  4:18           ` andrey mirtchovski
2008-11-21  5:34             ` David Leimbach
2008-11-21  5:33           ` David Leimbach
2008-11-20 20:47     ` John Barham
2008-11-20 22:13       ` Federico G. Benavento
2008-11-20 23:46         ` Iruata Souza
2008-11-20 18:41 ` Gorka Guardiola [this message]

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