[Haskell-cafe] The Good, the Bad and the GUI

[Wojtek Narczyński]

On 15.08.2014 13:27, Heinrich Apfelmus wrote:
> Wojtek, precise wording is important to us. We make no claim that 
> "Haskell is great for GUIs", only that it is probably capable of 
> carrying a great library for expressing GUIs. This distinction is 
> important because it gives advice on how to solve the problem -- is 
> there some inherent defect in the language and its semantics that 
> makes it difficult, or is the problem more on of manpower?
>
GUIs are hard, in any language.
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http://www.emarcus.org/papers/gpce2009-marcus.pdf
http://www.cs.uic.edu/~hinrichs/papers/hinrichs2011plato.pdf

I am looking for solutions on a Haskell list, because I think chances of 
finding them here are higher than elsewhere.

So let me ask again, any ideas on how would you write down rules for: 
text field lengths or numeric field ranges, in such a library, for a start?

> Similar for the term "GUI". Apparently, you are interested in a narrow 
> aspect of GUI programming -- input forms and validation. Which is 
> totally fine, but not nearly as broad as GUI programming in general.
>
You are totally right here. I should have said I meant Web UIs, mostly 
interactive forms.

-- 
Wojtek