Tetris in Haskell

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Post by whalesalad » Sat, Aug 08, 2009, 10:40 PM UTC

Tetris in Haskell
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Re: Tetris in Haskell

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Post by jacquesm » Sat, Aug 08, 2009, 10:55 PM UTC

this is a video of somebody playing tetris, it could have been programmed in java, haskell or brainfuck for that matter.

Without the code to go with it haskell hasn't got much to do with it. Would be nice to see the source!

Re: Tetris in Haskell

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Post by amichail » Sat, Aug 08, 2009, 11:06 PM UTC

Presumably this is newsworthy because building Tetris in Haskell is harder than in an imperative/OO language? Why is that a good thing?

Re: Tetris in Haskell

#4

Post by whalesalad » Sat, Aug 08, 2009, 11:19 PM UTC

jacquesm wrote: post #2

this is a video of somebody playing tetris, it could have been programmed in java, haskell or brainfuck for that matter. Without the code to go with it haskell hasn't got much to do with it. Would be nice to see the source!

Yeah, the source code would be very good to see.

Re: Tetris in Haskell

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Post by jacquesm » Sat, Aug 08, 2009, 11:27 PM UTC

whalesalad wrote: post #4

jacquesm wrote: post #2

this is a video of somebody playing tetris, it could have been programmed in java, haskell or brainfuck for that matter. Without the code to go with it haskell hasn't got much to do with it. Would be nice to see the source!

Yeah, the source code would be very good to see.

If it is programmed in brainfuck though I'm going to eat my hat or something. Do penance in a major way ;)

Re: Tetris in Haskell

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Post by christopherdone » Sun, Aug 09, 2009, 12:06 AM UTC

amichail wrote: post #3

Presumably this is newsworthy because building Tetris in Haskell is harder than in an imperative/OO language? Why is that a good thing?

Presumably this is newsworthy because everyone assumes building Tetris in Haskell is harder than in an imperative/OO language. This is a good thing because it proves that it's not.

Re: Tetris in Haskell

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Post by kiba » Sun, Aug 09, 2009, 1:00 AM UTC

There is an implementation of tetris in haskell with the source code: http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/people/Ian.Lynagh/Hetris/

I discovered it when a regular contributor contributed an article on the game to my FOSS gaming encyclopedia.

Re: Tetris in Haskell

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Post by boblol123 » Sun, Aug 09, 2009, 1:13 AM UTC

christopherdone wrote: post #6

amichail wrote: post #3

Presumably this is newsworthy because building Tetris in Haskell is harder than in an imperative/OO language? Why is that a good thing?

Presumably this is newsworthy because everyone assumes building Tetris in Haskell is harder than in an imperative/OO language. This is a good thing because it proves that it's not.

He says its taken him a week to do it and has had to ask lots of people for help. So I'd say its much harder than in a language like C#. I could (and so could most other people here) make tetris in 1-2 days without help.

Re: Tetris in Haskell

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Post by gtt » Sun, Aug 09, 2009, 1:18 AM UTC

kiba wrote: post #7

There is an implementation of tetris in haskell with the source code: http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/people/Ian.Lynagh/Hetris/ I discovered it when a regular contributor contributed an article on the game to my FOSS gaming encyclopedia.

Could you provide the link to the encyclopedia of yours?

Re: Tetris in Haskell

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Post by jcw » Sun, Aug 09, 2009, 1:54 AM UTC

boblol123 wrote: post #8

christopherdone wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Presumably this is newsworthy because everyone assumes building Tetris in Haskell is harder than in an imperative/OO language. This is a good thing because it proves that it's not.

He says its taken him a week to do it and has had to ask lots of people for help. So I'd say its much harder than in a language like C#. I could (and so could most other people here) make tetris in 1-2 days without help.

But the thing is, functional game development techniques are nowhere near as developed or established as those of OO game development. The solutions to the problems at hand aren't as immediately obvious.

This comes to mind: http://prog21.dadgum.com/23.html