[Haskell-cafe] How about Haskell Golf just like vimgolf.com

Ertugrul Soeylemez es at ertes.de
Mon Jan 3 17:19:31 CET 2011


Alex Kropivny <alex.kropivny at gmail.com> wrote:

> Could something like code abstraction be done instead?
>
> Haskell lends itself to solving problems in really generic, high level
> ways that reveal a LOT about the underlying problem structure. Through
> some combination of descriptive data types, generic type classes, and
> generic helper functions... You get an extremely clear problem
> description.
>
> Example: https://github.com/amtal/snippets/blob/master/Key.hs (Haskell)
> versus http://siyobik.info/index.php?module=pastebin&id=543 (C++)
>
> Clarity is a lot harder to score for, so you'd probably need to score
> things via votes. (Unless there's a way to measure how
> "generic"/high-level code is?) Such a site would fill a very nice
> role, that the programming language shootout definitely does not fill.
>
> Currently the only way to figure out what "good" Haskell code looks
> like is to browse lots of blogs, and dig through hackage until you
> find beautifully written packages.

I really like this idea.  New concepts in Haskell come up from time to
time.  Now if there was a competition for code quality and good ideas,
they may become more frequent.


Greets,
Ertugrul


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