[Haskell-cafe] Haskell versus F#, OCaml, et. al. ...

[Galchin, Vasili]

side tangent ... I wrote a posix real-time package and it sits now in System

1) I'm sure it can be improved .... I purposely tried to keep the API close
to the Posix real-time API; however, I am open to suggestions about the
implementation itself  and also the API

2) I am looking at changing the async i/o api some based on a suggestion to
use the State monad.
Regards. Vasili


On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 3:51 AM, Don Stewart <dons at galois.com> wrote:

> kr.angelov:
>  > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Don Stewart <dons at galois.com> wrote:
> > > There's almost 800 Haskell libraries on hackage.haskell.org (millions
> of
> > > lines of code). On average, 2 new libraries are released each day
> > > (though 12 new libs were released in the last 24 hours). That's 700 new
> > > libraries a year at the current rate.
> >
> > This is missleading and depends on how you count the libraries. For
> > instance "base" is now split into "arrays", "containers", "process",
> > "parallel" .... etc. In the same time on platforms like Java and .NET
> > this might be only one package.
>
> Indeed, it corresponds to only discrete units of maintainance, in
> separate repositories. There are no meta-packages yet.
> haskell-platform will be the first,
>
>    http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/
>
> If we count via 'categories', say, an alternative grouping, there are 62
> disinct categories on hackage, which would give an idea of what is
> provided logically,
>
>    AI (3)
>    Algorithms (12)
>    Bioinformatics (8)
>    Code Generation (3)
>    Codec (23)
>    Codecs (3)
>    Combinators (2)
>    Comonads (1)
>    Compilers/Interpreters
>    (16)
>    Composition (1)
>    Concurrency (1)
>    Console (2)
>    Control (34)
>    Cryptography (4)
>    Data (72)
>    Data Mining (2)
>    Data Structures (16)
>    Database (32)
>    Debug (1)
>    Desktop (1)
>    Development (41)
>    Distributed
>    Computing (5)
>    Distribution (14)
>    Editor (4)
>    Foreign (5)
>    FRP (4)
>    Game (24)
>    Generics (5)
>    Graphics (41)
>    GUI (8)
>    Hardware (3)
>    Interfaces (4)
>    Language (31)
>    List (2)
>    Math (30)
>    Monadic Regions (1)
>    Monads (8)
>    Music (3)
>    Natural Language Processing (9)
>    Network (46)
>    Numerical (2)
>    Other (1)
>    ParserCombinators (1)
>    Parsing (17)
>    Physics (3)
>    Pugs (9)
>    Reactivity (5)
>    Screensaver (1)
>    Scripting (1)
>    Search (3)
>    Sound (28)
>    Source-tools (4)
>    System (72)
>    Testing (12)
>    Text (76)
>    Theorem Provers (2)
>    User Interfaces (23)
>    User-interface (1)
>    Utils (1)
>    Web (36)
>    XML (11)
>    Unclassified (21).
>
> There are duplicates here, but if you can find missing categories, that
> might give an indication of weak points. No "Real Time" package, for
> example.
>
> -- Don
>
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