From 2b05dc69265b4a902ea46705707e005beb2a7c47 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "http://kerravonsen.dreamwidth.org/" Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 05:34:45 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] comment about Haskell --- doc/todo/rewrite_ikiwiki_in_haskell/discussion.mdwn | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/todo/rewrite_ikiwiki_in_haskell/discussion.mdwn b/doc/todo/rewrite_ikiwiki_in_haskell/discussion.mdwn index 1edebe4e8..d8e0e3eea 100644 --- a/doc/todo/rewrite_ikiwiki_in_haskell/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/rewrite_ikiwiki_in_haskell/discussion.mdwn @@ -12,3 +12,10 @@ Congratulations for demonstrating that April fools jokes can still be subtle >>> 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]] -- 2.44.0