[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 05:57 , Andrew Coppin wrote:
> Agreed. So let me rephrase: Why should _every_ Haskell library involve C? ;-)

Who says they do, or should?  AFAIK it's only done for the reasons I
mentioned (or, sometimes, for library compatibility; a native XCB library
has been considered, for example, but it wouldn't share state with the XCB
used by OpenGL, WxWindows, or gtk2hs (to name a few) so might have
interoperability problems). When possible pure Haskell is preferred, but
there's a lot of complex libraries out there that one should not try to rewrite.

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