[Haskell-cafe] Are you a Haskell expert? [How easy is it to hire Haskell programmers]

[Brandon S Allbery KF8NH]

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On 7/3/10 05:22 , Andrew Coppin wrote:
> Besides, why in the world do Haskell libraries have to involve C? I've
> written and released several libraries on Hackage, none of which are in any
> way related to C. Not every library is just a C binding, you know...

Mainly because they're complex and already exist (and are often heavily
optimized already); consider gtk2hs for the former and BLAS/LAPACK for the
latter.  You *really, really* don't want to have to reimplement any of those
as pure Haskell, trust me on this :)

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