haskell newbie seeking for advice

Glynn Clements glynn.clements@virgin.net
Thu, 14 Aug 2003 00:36:19 +0100


Jose A.Ortega Ruiz wrote:

> as stated in the subject, i'm a newcomer to haskell programming: i've
> read some tutorials and (portions of) a couple of books and am really
> fascinated with the language. but my haskell coding experience is
> limited to toy programs and short exercises. so i decided to try my
> hand at a small project to really learn haskell and the functional
> programming mindset[1], and i would appreciate to hear your opinions
> and comments on some issues before i start coding:
> 
> - build toolchain. i'm used to the autoconfig/automake/make tools for
>   C/C++ projects, and to ant for Java stuff. what do haskellers use?
>   my initial thought was using a plain Makefile with ghc, but there is
>   also hmake and maybe other tools i am missing. what would you use? [2]

There's also "ghc --make".

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Glynn Clements <glynn.clements@virgin.net>