comment about Haskell

[ikiwiki.git] / doc / todo / rewrite_ikiwiki_in_haskell / discussion.mdwn

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@@ -7,3 +7,15 @@ Congratulations for demonstrating that April fools jokes can still be subtle
 
 >> I've glanced at couchdb, but don't see how it would tie in with ikiwiki.
 >> --[[Joey]] 
+
+
+>>> It doesn't really. I recently (re-)read about couchdb and thought that
+>>> what it was trying to do had some comparisons with the thinking going on
+>>> in [[todo/structured_page_data]]. -- [[Jon]]
+
+-----
+
+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.
+
+--[[KathrynAndersen]]