[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Why functional programming matters

[Don Stewart]

stephan.friedrichs:
> Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
> >[...]
> >
> >2. War stories from real life.  eg "In company X in 2004 they rewrote 
> >their application in Haskell/Caml with result Y".  Again, for my purpose 
> >I can't tell very long stories; but your message can give a bit more 
> >detail than one might actually give in a presentation.  The more concrete 
> >and specific, the better.  E.g. what, exactly, about using a functional 
> >language made it a win for you?
> >
> 
> We [1] implemented an ad-hoc chat system in Haskell in the SEP [2] at 
> the TU-Braunschweig.

Wow!

Looks like lots of great code in there,

http://sep07.mroot.net/documentation/barracuda/

    Text.ParserCombinators.Parsec.XML
    Codec.Encryption.PKCS1
    Network.GnuTLS
    Data.Heap

Will we see this packaged for hackage.haskell.org soon?
Some of those modules look very reusable.

-- Don