[Haskell-cafe] Comparison of common Haskell libraries (Was: Good reads?)

[Eric Rasmussen]

Thank you -- I will try your spreadsheet package for sure, and when I have
more expertise in this area I'd be happy to contribute to the wiki.


On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 3:00 AM, Henning Thielemann <
schlepptop at henning-thielemann.de> wrote:

> Eric Rasmussen schrieb:
>
> > Also, in the spirit of this discussion, is there a resource that
> > attempts to compare libraries for common tasks so developers can make
> > informed decisions without having to research each library or approach
> > on their own? As an example, in other languages you might read about CSV
> > parsing from a few different sources and see a general consensus on how
> > to approach it. After hours of digging through code on Hackage and
> > reading up on different approaches, I can't seem to find a consensus in
> > Haskell.
>
> I think there won't be consensus in many cases, otherwise developers
> wouldn't have started to develop alternatives to existing packages.
> However if you did the work of comparing some libraries for the same
> purpose - how about writing a personal comparison in the HaskellWiki?
>
> For the special case of CSV parsing I would of course recommend my
> spreadsheet package because it parses lazily. :-)
>
>
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