Running a startup on Haskell

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Post by DanielRibeiro » Tue, Sep 20, 2011, 9:44 PM UTC

Running a startup on Haskell
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Re: Running a startup on Haskell

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Post by hugues » Tue, Sep 20, 2011, 10:43 PM UTC

Hackers News is boring because of this type of post. What is the purpose of your link?

Re: Running a startup on Haskell

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Post by freshhawk » Tue, Sep 20, 2011, 10:46 PM UTC

hugues wrote: post #2

Hackers News is boring because of this type of post. What is the purpose of your link?

Did you know that that was a slideshow? You're seeing the title page, click on it to advance to the next page. repeat.

Re: Running a startup on Haskell

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Post by michaelschade » Tue, Sep 20, 2011, 11:21 PM UTC

For background, Bryan gave this talk at the excellent Strange Loop 2011 conference (https://thestrangeloop.com/).

Abstract: https://thestrangeloop.com/sessions/running-a-startup-on-has...

He also gave a workshop on Sunday (which I unfortunately was not able to attend): https://thestrangeloop.com/sessions/haskell-functional-progr...

Re: Running a startup on Haskell

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Sep 20, 2011, 11:43 PM UTC

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Re: Running a startup on Haskell

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Post by narain » Tue, Sep 20, 2011, 11:53 PM UTC

freshhawk wrote: post #3

hugues wrote: post #2

Hackers News is boring because of this type of post. What is the purpose of your link?

Did you know that that was a slideshow? You're seeing the title page, click on it to advance to the next page. repeat.

Arrow keys also work.

Re: Running a startup on Haskell

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Post by narain » Tue, Sep 20, 2011, 11:54 PM UTC

So what is "the best compiler bug ever" (slide 31)?

Re: Running a startup on Haskell

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Post by thurn » Tue, Sep 20, 2011, 11:57 PM UTC

Interesting that he comes down in favor of Snap. I've been looking at the Snap vs. Yesod question for my own projects, lately, and there's interesting arguments both ways. Yesod is big and comprehensive, with four or five custom DSLs that have compilers implemented in Template Haskell. Snap is tiny, really just a routing engine and server with a small template library tacked on.

Yesod reminds me of Rails, while Snap reminds me of Servlets + JSP.

Re: Running a startup on Haskell

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Post by socratic » Wed, Sep 21, 2011, 12:00 AM UTC

  I must hunt down and learn to use a QuickCheck-like library for my language.

  If I can't find one, I should write one.

So what's the (best) equivalent of QuickCheck in Ruby? In other languages?

Re: Running a startup on Haskell

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Post by abhijitr » Wed, Sep 21, 2011, 12:01 AM UTC

Can anyone comment on the claim "QuickCheck is shockingly more effective at finding bugs than unit tests"? I'd be interested in hearing other opinions.