[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell and scripting

[Limestraël]

Well, it is clear that, for me, the dyre approach is clearly the simplest to
implement, since everything is in Haskell.
Maybe I could start with it, and see if it suits me... (Sorry, I know, ^^ I
keep changing my mind...)


2010/5/5 Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com>

> On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Limestraël <limestrael at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Yes, the xmonad approach is very neat, but I see 2 major (IMO) drawbacks
> to
> > it:
> > 1) The end-user has to have GHC, and all the necessary libraries to
> compile
> > the configuration
> > 2) A scripting language should be simple and QUICK to learn : Haskell is
> > clean, powerful but its learning takes time
>
> For basic customization, many XMonad users (judging by questions on
> #xmonad) have little to no Haskell experience and get by. Further,
> it's easier to step down the power than to increase it; because we use
> Haskell, it's possible to have simpler configuration options like
> xmonad-light*
>
> * http://braincrater.wordpress.com/2008/08/28/announcing-xmonad-light/
> isn't a very good explanation of xmonad-light, but I don't know of any
> others
>
> --
> gwern
>
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