Interesting announcement on the debian-haskell list:
The OS team at Linspire, Inc. would like to announce that we are standardizing on Haskell as our preferred language for core OS development.
We are redoing a bunch of our infrastructure using Haskell as our common standard language. Our first task is redoing our Debian package builder (aka autobuilder) in Haskell. Other tools such as ISO builders, package dependency checkers are in progress. The goal is to make a really tight simple set of tools that will let developers contribute to Freespire, based on Debian tools whenever possible. Our hardware detector, currently in OCaml, is on the block to be rewritten as well.
I've been planning to get a black MacBook this week and put Ubuntu on it; it'd be interesting to see if I can get Freespire tools running on that some day...
saw that too, interesting, although i often consider it a danger sign when developers rewrite existing code just to employ a different language, particularly when they already employ a language (ocaml) that can deliver on many of the same promises of haskell.
also audrey, please report on your experience with ubuntu on the mac core duo unit when you get a chance. i am using ubuntu on an older powerbook g4 now, and it works great, although the ppc binary boundary does preclude me from using flash etc (only a minor annoyance).
Posted by: grumpY! | 2006.05.17 at 02:57 AM
We're actually not rewriting all of the ocaml code. We are rewriting a bunch of Perl code, and we are porting some of the libraries from ocaml to haskell to facilitate new development.
Posted by: David Fox | 2006.05.17 at 03:31 AM
whats that david? you're rewriting it all in perl?!?! awesome!!! just kidding.
Posted by: grumpY! | 2006.05.17 at 05:56 AM