[Haskell-cafe] Random idea

[Donald Bruce Stewart]

andrewcoppin:
> Greetings.
> 
> I was thinking... we already have Lambdabot sitting in an IRC channel. 
> How hard would it be to mangle Lambdabot to the point where it works 
> over HTTP? You know - so you could type some Haskell into a form on a 

Lambdabot web server is here:

    http://lambdabot.codersbase.com/

Thought we never announced it off channel, and it hasn't been updated in
a while.

> web page, hit [submit], and get the result sent back to you? (Again, 
> assuming it can be computed in a sane amount of time/space, and 
> truncated to some reasonable textual length.)
> 
> I think it might be kinda neat to have such a thing linked from the 
> Haskell.org homepage. You know, sort of "hey, wanna try Haskell without 
> installing any stuff? Click here!"

yeah, we've had this in mind as a base for an online haskell
quiz/tutorial series. Perhaps someone would like to make this happen :-)

-- Don