Re: [9fans] What about Haskell? [was: How can I use alef?]

["Iruata Souza" <iru.muzgo@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 3:23 PM, matt <mattmobile@proweb.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>
> I've often though quite a few languages could be shrunken down fit with
> Plan9's diretory/files system. Python, for instance, would need much less
> code for networking etc.
>
> So a language that specialsed in I/O primitives would be a good choice. That
> doesn't sound like Haskell to me. I/O is about changing state. That said,
> there must be a way to make it fit :)
>
> Of the few I have used, I think python is the best hybrid that fits.
>

once in a while I play with fgb's port of tinyscheme and it seems to
fit for the pretty simple stuff I do. just for fun, I started adding
some Plan 9 native calls to tinyscheme and it worked nicely.

iru