[Ambassadors] haskell and promotion !!

[Satish Eerpini]

that was more than i had to know , .... i also did some research on my own
to know more about Haskell and ya i also bumped in to Erlang on the way ,
......


Thanks
Satish

On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 12:55 AM, Yaakov Nemoy <loupgaroublond at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 2008/7/24 Satish Eerpini <eerpini at gmail.com>:
> > hi everyone ,
> > i have this small doubt ,
> > the feature list ( the current one ) of Fedora 10 says that it will have
> > very good support for Haskell, and this could well be used by us
> > (ambassadors) for promoting the release in the other communities which
> are
> > less familiar with Fedora Linux like Scientists , Engineers , etc ,
> > i am not sure whether this is the right place for this question but :
> > what is haskell , and how improved support for it could really help the
> > acceptance of the entire Distro ( Fedora 10 ) ?? well i have not heard
> the
> > word Haskell enough times to even remember the name !!,
>
> Perhaps this is my fault, that I haven't talked it up enough.  Haskell
> is also a bit obscure though too.
>
> Haskell is a functional programming language, which is a language
> style that is favoured in the scientific community for a variety of
> reasons.  Haskell is a research language, created by a committee, and
> has been a development ground for a variety of different aspects to
> functional programming.  Functional programming in general and Haskell
> in particular has also been used in the corporate programming space
> with a variety of success.  One such example is the language Erlang,
> created by Sony Ericsson which can be found in both cell phones and in
> highly parallelized and threaded systems.
>
> "Good Haskell Support" is an effort to create packaging guidelines for
> Haskell packages, and to include as many as possible in the Fedora 10
> initial release.  The goal is to make sure that Fedora is a platform
> that can be used for both the development and deployment of
> applications written in Haskell.
>
> This can be marketed in several different ways.  First and foremost,
> this is a benefit to universities, since the more languages Fedora
> supports and has libraries for, the better it can be used in
> educational settings.  Secondly, Fedora can be marketed to companies
> and other research labs that regularly use speciality languages, such
> as Haskell.  It can also be thought of as one component in provided a
> wider base of support for supporting Open Source in general, in that
> we can use any source code out in the wild.  Namely, with support for
> Haskell, various Lisp dialects, Erlang, Brainfuck, and other languages
> that aren't Python, Java, C++, or C, we can run more code.
>
> Let me know if you need more marketing fodder about Haskell.
>
> -Yaakov
>
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