[Haskell-cafe] Re: Suggestions for an MSc Project?

[Christopher Done]

On 4 July 2010 12:03, John Smith <voldermort at hotmail.com> wrote:
> On 04/07/2010 12:00, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:
>>>
>>> My interests are in higher-level application programming, rather than
>>> low-level libraries or compiler hacking.
>>
>> What do you mean by this?
>
> Using web programming as an example, a CMS would be high-level, while a
> networking library would be low-level.
>
> I was thinking of having a go at a web framework, but the space seems to be
> filled with Happstack.

It isn't really filled with happstack. Many of us use FastCGI or a
straight web server like hyena or Snap, or salvia, etc. People keep
writing web frameworks because they're unsatisfied with what's
currently available. But yeah, I'd pick something more interesting
than a web framework.