[Haskell-cafe] Haskell and scripting

[minh thu]

Hi,

You can take the xmonad approach: the configuration file is written in
Haskell and compiled, so no need for another language.

Cheers,
Thu

2010/5/3 Martin Erwig <erwig at eecs.oregonstate.edu>:
> One of my students has worked on scripting approach in Haskell:
>
>        http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~erwig/papers/abstracts.html#SLE09
>
> --
> 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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