thanks .. ... just trying to get an objective viewpoint and see where the "holes" are ...
Vasili On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 1:46 AM, Don Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > vigalchin: > > Hello, > > > > Frank mode on ... ;^) In terms of functionality, where is > Haskell > > superior vs inferior to ML, Caml, OCaml, F#, Erlang, etc.? E.g. in > terms > > of library functionality? > > > > Without more information, all we can really do is an overview. > > There's almost 800 Haskell libraries on hackage.haskell.org (millions of > lines of code). On average, 2 new libraries are released each day > (though 12 new libs were released in the last 24 hours). That's 700 new > libraries a year at the current rate. > > If I visit Arch Linux, I find, > > 602 Haskell libraries and tools, http://tinyurl.com/3jxlpl > > 21 OCaml libraries and tools, http://tinyurl.com/4fl485 > > 7 Erlang libraries and tools, http://tinyurl.com/54oj7u > > 0 F# libraries and tools, http://tinyurl.com/4v53pl > > Of course, this is on Linux, and your distro may vary (and on Windows, > F# gets to use all the .NET libraries), but you get the idea. > > One of the main themes that came out of the commercial users of FP > meeting last week, > > http://cufp.galois.com > > was the need for languages to start building standard, blessed platforms > of libraries, and to encourage reuse. Haskell was in the nice position > of already having such a process underway, > > http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_Platform > > Enjoy! > > -- Don >
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