[Haskell-beginners] Haskell for POS (business) apps

[David Virebayre]

2010/9/13 Giuseppe Luigi Punzi <glpunzi at lordzealon.com>:
> Hi David,
>
> On Lunes 13 Septiembre 2010 10:54:15 usted escribió:
>> 2010/9/12  <glpunzi at lordzealon.com>:
>> > For the moment, We are developing a POS system. The first prototype is
>> > beeing developed under Windev(1), but, I would like to move to opensource
>>
>> I have developped a POS system under Windev. Developping in Haskell
>> for this project was unfortunately not an option for me; however maybe
>
> Why wasn't an option? What problems did you found?

No problems at all, I was required by my hierarchy to do it in Windev
and had no say in that choice. The only way I can use Haskell at work
at the moment is for small stuff.

> Well, I like a lot Windev, Is very fast to get something usable and prototype,
> but:
> 1.- It forces me to develop from Windows.

My office box is under Linux, to develop with Windev I use virtualbox
( the dongle works fine )

> 2.- Is not fully cross-platform
> 3.- Bugfixes and improvements comes with new licenses (more money)

To that, add that the source code management system makes me cry.

David.