Re: [Haskelldb-users] Survey

[Shae M. E. <sh...@Sc...>]

Anders H=C3=B6ckersten <ch...@dt...> writes:

> - What is your name, and current occupation?

Shae Erisson, self-employed programmer and web developer.

> - What is your level of experience with Haskell?

About three years self taught experience, intermediate Haskeller

> - How did you first come into contact with HaskellDB?

I found Daan's page, desperately wanted it for my web dev jobs.

> - What do you use HaskellDB for? We would love to have a longer descripti=
on
>   of any projects you are working on, to prove that it really is used. :)

curryspondence:
http://shapr.homelinux.net/cgi-bin/wash/SearchML
darcs get http://shapr.homelinux.net/repos/curryspondence

I'm planning on adding HaskellDB support to lambdabot.
I'd like to do professional webdev in Haskell, nearly every webdev app requ=
ires
nicely abstracted database support.

> - Please rate (on a scale from 1-10) HaskellDB in these departments, also
>   * Features

9 - nearly perfect

>   * Ease of use

9 - nearly perfect

>   * Documentation

10 (I wrote some myself ;-)

>   * User Support

10: many problems were fixed just a few hours after I reported them
    my questions were always quickly answered on #haskelldb

> - What do you regard as HaskellDB's main strengths?

type checking generated SQL code
ability to use higher order queries

> - What do you regard as HaskellDB's main weaknesses?

can be verbose?
HaskellDB still needs more demo apps to gain a critical mass of users and
maintainers before the current projects ends.

> - How would you like to see HaskellDB improved on in the future?

I'd like to see per-backend optimization plugins

> - Any final comments you want to add?

HaskellDB rocks! keep up the good work!
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