From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <881467ce0811200915odb0a042xb1c3aa2f292c2677@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:15:55 +0500 From: "Roman Zhukov" 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: 4b62546c-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On my opinion, those "big" languages (haskell, erlang, lisp, etc.) don't fit to Plan9 or any other os/environment, because they usually provide their own. On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 9:56 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 -- Roma