Re:Reflecting on Haskell in 2017
by rspeer on Monday December 04, 2017 @12:11PM
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I use Haskell for a special-purpose MediaWiki parser, wikiparsec [1]. It extracts information from Wiktionary to put into the ConceptNet knowledge graph. (Does that still count as programming a computer?)
I actually do not like the Haskell ecosystem very much. I don't like the broken Prelude (standard library) that you're supposed to replace but there's no consensus on what to replace it with, and I don't like how every library introduces its own unpronounceable infix operators. I also don't even think that using the word "monad" is a good attempt at communication.
But for non-trivial LL parsing, there's no alternative. There's Attoparsec in Haskell, and there's libraries that wish they were Attoparsec.
I actually do not like the Haskell ecosystem very much. I don't like the broken Prelude (standard library) that you're supposed to replace but there's no consensus on what to replace it with, and I don't like how every library introduces its own unpronounceable infix operators. I also don't even think that using the word "monad" is a good attempt at communication.
But for non-trivial LL parsing, there's no alternative. There's Attoparsec in Haskell, and there's libraries that wish they were Attoparsec.
[1] https://github.com/LuminosoInsight/wikiparsec