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Joey Hess 2012-01-30 14:31:26 -04:00
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I'm torn about this idea, if it's actually serious. I'm very comfortable programming in Perl, and have written quite a few modules for IkiWiki, and it would be a huge pain to have to start from scratch all over again.
On the other hand, this could be a motivation for me to learn Haskell. My only encounter with Haskell has been a brief time when I was using the Xmonad window manager, but it looks like an interesting language. Functional programming is cool.
I'm torn about this idea, if it's actually serious. I'm very comfortable
programming in Perl, and have written quite a few modules for IkiWiki, and
it would be a huge pain to have to start from scratch all over again. On
the other hand, this could be a motivation for me to learn Haskell. My
only encounter with Haskell has been a brief time when I was using the
Xmonad window manager, but it looks like an interesting language.
Functional programming is cool.
There are a lot of interesting plusses for Haskell you note (in the parent page), but it's true that the idea is horribly daunting (as [[Joey]] said "If only I had a spare year"). Is there any way that you could "start small"? Because nothing will ever happen if the task is too daunting to even start.
There are a lot of interesting plusses for Haskell you note (in the parent
page), but it's true that the idea is horribly daunting (as [[Joey]] said
"If only I had a spare year"). Is there any way that you could "start
small"? Because nothing will ever happen if the task is too daunting to
even start.
On further thought... perhaps it would be easier to fork or contribute to an existing Haskell-based wiki, such as <a href="http://jaspervdj.be/hakyll">Hakyll</a>?
> This seems destined to remain a thought experiment unless something like
> that can be done, or I get a serious case of second system disease.
>
> I've considered doing things like using the external plugin interface
> to run a separate haskell program, which would allow implementing
> arbitrary plugins in haskell (starting with a pandoc plugin..),
> and could perhaps grow to subsume the perl code. However, this would
> stick us with the perl data structures, which are not a very good fit
> for haskell. --[[Joey]]
On further thought... perhaps it would be easier to fork or contribute to
an existing Haskell-based wiki, such as <a
href="http://jaspervdj.be/hakyll">Hakyll</a>?
--[[KathrynAndersen]]
> As far as I know there are no other wikis (haskell or otherwise)
> that are wiki compilers. Since we know from experience that dealing
> with static compilation turns out to be one of the trickiest parts of
> ikiwiki, I'm doubtful about trying to bolt that into one. --[[Joey]]