[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] ANN: The Disciplined Disciple Compiler - alpha 1

[Derek Elkins]

On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 09:20 -0700, Don Stewart wrote:
> g9ks157k:
> > Am Donnerstag, 20. März 2008 07:09 schrieb Ben Lippmeier:
> > > Hi All,
> > > I'm pleased to announce the initial alpha release
> > > of the Disciplined Disciple Compiler (DDC).
> > >
> > > Disciple is an explicitly lazy dialect of Haskell which includes:
> > >  - first class destructive update of arbitrary data.
> > >  - computational effects without the need for state monads.
> > >  - type directed field projections.
> > >
> > > All this and more through the magic of effect typing.
> > >
> > > More information (and download!) available from:
> > >     http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/DDC
> > > or  http://code.google.com/p/disciple
> > >
> > > DDC: more than lambdas.
> > >
> > > Onward!
> > > Ben.
> > 
> > Short question: Is it appropriate to put the homepage of a non-Haskell project 
> > on the Haskell Wiki?  I mean, putting some basic info about such a project 
> > there and link to the project’s website might be okay and is already done in 
> > certain cases.  But projects like Agda or Epigram typically don’t use 
> > haskell.org as a webspace provider and I think this is the way to go.  What 
> > do others think?
> 
> While YHC, lambdabot and xmonad do :) So I think the precedent has been
> that anything written in Haskell, or any Haskell-like compiler, can be
> happily hosted.

My experience has been that the Haskell community is and has been very
supportive of such projects, and most Haskellers would be more than
happy to have such a project on the Haskell Wiki.

Pugs started on the Haskell wiki.