[Haskell-cafe] OS Abstraction module??

[Galchin Vasili]

PS so far there are only a hand full of FPL shops .. like
http://www.galois.com, http://www.skydesk.com, http://www.janestcapital.com/
.

On 10/22/07, Galchin Vasili <vigalchin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Neil,
>
>     You misunderstand me. I am really tired of imperative langauges like
> C/C++ .. I work in industry (for a long time) and have programmed in ANSI C
> for more than 10 years. Please see my interleaves below.
>
> Regards, Bill
>
>
> On 10/22/07, Neil Mitchell <ndmitchell at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Bill
> >
> > >     I am really talking about a module or perhaps a Haskell class that
> > > provides notion for multiple threads of execution, semaphores, .. that
> >
> > > "hides" POSIX vs Win32 APIs .. i.e. the underlying OS APIs would be
> > totally
> > > hidden.
> >
> > I think you are thinking in a "C" way. In Haskell, portable is the
> > default. If you want to stop your code being portable, you have to go
>
>
>      ^^ how? If I define something like "class OS where ...." and define a
> POSIX instance of "class OS" and a Win32 API instance.. function calls will
> be to the instances and hence the OS APIs are visible. Yes?
>
> out of your way. Haskell is a much higher level language than others
> > (such as C). Because the language is higher level, it tends to promote
> > much higher level abstraction in the libraries - hiding platform
> > idiosyncrasies in the process.
> >
> > > IMO if Haskell (or say OCaml) want
> > > to be accepted by industry this kind of functionality is absolutely
> > > critical.
> >
> > It is critical. Perhaps if C wants to be taken seriously it should
> > provide portability, which has been present in Haskell since the
> > beginning :-)
>
>
>       ^^ the problem is that C/C++ is taken seriously even though they are
> high level assemblers. C/C++ have monopoly (as I am sure) in industry. It is
> almost impossible to convince the software industry to consider FPLs
> (assuming they even know what an FPL is). It is the FPL community that has
> to proof itself if is to break into the software industry.
>
> Thanks
> >
> > Neil
> >
>
>
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