From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <599f06db0811201041v7c156522ia839a473985b4875@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:41:34 +0100 From: "Gorka Guardiola" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Subject: Re: [9fans] What about Haskell? [was: How can I use alef?] Topicbox-Message-UUID: 4c18977c-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Giacomo Tesio 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