I think this is a wonderful idea! Fer land sakes, I remember when kids were
taught BASIC or Fortran! I think Haskell will be a great improvement.
Now, how'z'bout web sites? Kids love web sites, yes? I've been working on a
small project, in quiet mode, to develop an "all in the web browser"
development environment and tutorial on programming in Haskell with web
programming as the main focus.
So far the development environment part is up and running: you start like this:
> barley start playground
...project created....
Running on http://localhost:8080/
Now you browse to that URL and you have a Haskell development environment in
the web page. Edit Haskell modules, and click save... bang! compiled with
either in-line error messages, or if it runs, with a web page preview output.
It's a lot of fun, actually.
Here's the catch: The project isn't even at 0.1 yet: The above works, but there
are some missing features from the development environment, and, most
importantly, there is only the barest wisp of a tutorial yet. BUT - you aren't
starting until next year, so help us write the tutorial!
The project is, for now, here:
https://github.com/mtnviewmark/barley
But will be moving to code.google.com in a few weeks.
- Mark
Mark Lentczner
http://www.ozonehouse.com/mark/
[email protected]
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