Functional - few questions about Haskell

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few questions about Haskell

filox

2006-06-25, 7:03 pm

i am relatively new to functional programming and i am thinking on learning
Haskell. now, i have a few questions about it:
1. how big is the Haskell community, i.e. if i have a problem what are the
chances that i will find the solution via google or newsgroups?
2. what is the status of the existing libraries for Haskell (how many are
there, how often will i have to write some common task for which in C or
Java exist a ton of libraries - e.g. xml parsing) ?
3. how well does it integrate with other languages, especially C or C++?
4. if anyone has any experience, can you compare Haskell and SML on the
three above points?

thank you

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Joachim Durchholz

2006-06-26, 7:04 pm

filox schrieb:
> i am relatively new to functional programming and i am thinking on learning
> Haskell. now, i have a few questions about it:
> 1. how big is the Haskell community, i.e. if i have a problem what are the
> chances that i will find the solution via google or newsgroups?

You'll usually get a competent answer here in comp.lang.functional.

So, on that account, the answer is "large enough".

> 2. what is the status of the existing libraries for Haskell (how many
> are there, how often will i have to write some common task for which
> in C or Java exist a ton of libraries - e.g. xml parsing) ?

The number of libraries is certainly less.
I'm not sure about the number of *useful* libraries.
Particularly since "useful" depends on what you're planning to do.

Regards,
Jo

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