From: Joey Hess Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:31:26 +0000 (-0400) Subject: comments X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/ikiwiki.git/commitdiff_plain/522b24a0f1a468c60018ddcae1c9e79f1c96d246?ds=sidebyside comments --- diff --git a/doc/todo/rewrite_ikiwiki_in_haskell/discussion.mdwn b/doc/todo/rewrite_ikiwiki_in_haskell/discussion.mdwn index cf2725594..733d69db0 100644 --- a/doc/todo/rewrite_ikiwiki_in_haskell/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/rewrite_ikiwiki_in_haskell/discussion.mdwn @@ -15,11 +15,37 @@ Congratulations for demonstrating that April fools jokes can still be subtle ----- -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. - -There are a lot of interesting plusses for Haskell you note (in the parent page), but it's true that the idea is horribly daunting (as [[Joey]] said "If only I had a spare year"). Is there any way that you could "start small"? Because nothing will ever happen if the task is too daunting to even start. - -On further thought... perhaps it would be easier to fork or contribute to an existing Haskell-based wiki, such as Hakyll? +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. + +There are a lot of interesting plusses for Haskell you note (in the parent +page), but it's true that the idea is horribly daunting (as [[Joey]] said +"If only I had a spare year"). Is there any way that you could "start +small"? Because nothing will ever happen if the task is too daunting to +even start. + +> This seems destined to remain a thought experiment unless something like +> that can be done, or I get a serious case of second system disease. +> +> I've considered doing things like using the external plugin interface +> to run a separate haskell program, which would allow implementing +> arbitrary plugins in haskell (starting with a pandoc plugin..), +> and could perhaps grow to subsume the perl code. However, this would +> stick us with the perl data structures, which are not a very good fit +> for haskell. --[[Joey]] + +On further thought... perhaps it would be easier to fork or contribute to +an existing Haskell-based wiki, such as Hakyll? --[[KathrynAndersen]] + +> As far as I know there are no other wikis (haskell or otherwise) +> that are wiki compilers. Since we know from experience that dealing +> with static compilation turns out to be one of the trickiest parts of +> ikiwiki, I'm doubtful about trying to bolt that into one. --[[Joey]]