From: http://kerravonsen.dreamwidth.org/ Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 09:41:47 +0000 (-0400) Subject: further thoughts X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/ikiwiki.git/commitdiff_plain/a47a18cde0571146b4814b0bbf234be4f234e185 further thoughts --- diff --git a/doc/todo/rewrite_ikiwiki_in_haskell/discussion.mdwn b/doc/todo/rewrite_ikiwiki_in_haskell/discussion.mdwn index d8e0e3eea..7ac1f4b3d 100644 --- a/doc/todo/rewrite_ikiwiki_in_haskell/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/rewrite_ikiwiki_in_haskell/discussion.mdwn @@ -18,4 +18,6 @@ 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. + --[[KathrynAndersen]]