Re: [wxhaskell-users] wxhaskell vs. gtk2hs

[Gour <go...@go...>]

On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 10:47:33 -0800
>>>>>> "Conal" == Conal Elliott wrote:

Conal> I'm adopting this term "denotative" from Peter Landin's seminal
Conal> paper "The Next 700 Programming Languages".  See
Conal> http://conal.net/blog/posts/is-haskell-a-purely-functional-language/#comment-35882.
Conal>   Previously I've been using the alternative "denotational".

Thanks for the reference.

Conal> I expect that even libraries like wx/gtk+ *can* be used as part
Conal> of a faithful implementation of denotative GUI programming, if
Conal> we take great care to insulate our denotation from the complex
Conal> semantics of those libraries. However, this insulation may be so
Conal> difficult to establish and maintain that it's easier to start
Conal> from scratch.

It would be good to be able to use those libs considering that Haskell
community (at the moment) does not even have evenough man-power to
adequately maintain language bindings, what to speak of developing &
maintaining the whole toolkit.

Otoh, I'm aware it won't come soon...


Sincerely,
Gour

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