[Haskell-cafe] Darcs users [was: New book: Real-World Haskell!]

Ketil Malde ketil at ii.uib.no
Wed May 30 01:58:36 EDT 2007


On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 14:05 -0500, Doug Kirk wrote:

> I *want* people (and companies) to move to Haskell; therefore, I want
> to lower the entry "price". The goal is to introduce a new language,
> not a new SCM tool. You certainly wouldn't want to leave the
> impression that one MUST use darcs in order to use Haskell!

Fair enough.  But you do not want to leave the impression that one must
use SVN in order to use Haskell (or any other language, for that matter)
either?  Anyway, I am sure that can be avoided by a reasonable phrasing
of the relevant chapter - caveat scriptor.

Now, darcs is:

 a) really simple to get started with

 b) ubiquitous for Haskell programs - if you download something to
install yourself, you will - as likely as not - use darcs to do the
downloading.

 c) written in Haskell, serving as both an example of a 'real world'
application, and as a possible target for the enterprising hacker.

You could make a similar argument for the build system - should a
Haskell book teach "make" instead of Cabal, just because it is more
familar?

-k



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