Haskell for non-Haskell's sake

[Elke Kasimir]

On 30-Aug-2003 Hal Daume III wrote:
> Hi fellow Haskellers,
> 
> I'm attempting to get a sense of the topology of the Haskell
> community.  Based on the Haskell Communities & Activities reports, it
> seems that the large majority of people use Haskell for Haskell's sake.

I have been working on a software-engineering tool that is intended
to derive SQL-DDL-Statements, XML-Schema-Documents, and Java classes
from a common schema definition which is written in some UML-like
language (with a proper semantics of course). The tool will furthermore
generate java-code for the conversion of complex objects (that is, instances of 
certain subgraphs of  the eschema) along the paths SQL<->Java,
SQL<->XML,  Java<->XML. The project will however be cancelled before
it reaches a state where the software could actually deployed. 

Everything except of the frontend that is a graphical editor for schemata,
has been written in Haskell. It is surely not "Haskell for Haskell" but
"Haskell for the Rest of the World".

Elke Kasimir. 


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