[darcs-users] Re: [Haskell-cafe] fptools in darcs now available

[Bennett Todd]

2005-05-03T10:02:54 zooko:
> In fact, darcs is the only Haskell program known to me which is
> useful to people who aren't Haskell programmers.

Darcs is the first one I heard of. Then I heard about Pugs
<URL:http://www.pugscode.org/>. "useful" is a term with nuances;
Pugs is "useful" to folks interested in experimenting with a working
implementation of Perl6.

These cases have impressed me; in both of them, an individual
programmer was able to go from a desire to implement something
non-trivial to a working implementation in a scary short length of
time, the result worked well enough to attract other developers,
and ongoing development proceeded with people joining surprisingly
quickly. I'm gonna _have_ to take another swing at getting ghc to
build on my Linux distro. One of these days.

-Bennett
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