[Haskell-cafe] Haskell and scripting

[Martin Erwig]

One of my students has worked on scripting approach in Haskell:

	http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~erwig/papers/abstracts.html#SLE09

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Martin 


On May 3, 2010, at 9:51 AM, Limestraël wrote:

> Hello Café,
> 
> I don't know if you know conky. It's a well-known open-source system monitor (a software that displays information on the desktop, like CPU frequency, disk usage, network rate, etc.).
> It is quite good, but it's very descriptive, and even if you can call shell commands it's clearly not made for being scripted.
> What I would do is to make a similar system monitor, which base would be compiled Haskell code, but that would be scriptable with some DSL, or already existing interpreted language.
> I've thought about a Lisp/Scheme language, since those languages are functional, dynamically typed and simple (so enable a quick scripting) and I'm not very keen on making my own DSL
> 
> What I would like to know is:
> 1) If you have other solutions
> 2) How do haskellers usually script their applications
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