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What's a good functional language for desktop scripting (like Python)?
I'd like to get some time in with a fairly pure functional language and I'm not sure what I should be using for practice. I've played a little with Scheme and Erlang but neither one seem to have the chutzpah I need for doing Python-like scripting/programming. Maybe I'm doing it wrong?
(EDIT: Removed Windows from the title because I want it to be cross platform)
- mbrubeck 17y agoVarious parts of Real World Haskell show how to do scripting-type tasks using Haskell, especially chapters 7 and 9 (linked below, but they'll make more sense if you also read the preceding chapters): http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/io.html http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/io.html http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/io-case-study-a-library-for-searching-the-filesystem.html http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/io-case-study-a-librar...
- darkxanthos 17y agoThanks! Any libraries for web oriented tasks?
- mbrubeck 17y agoThere's a big list at http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Applications_and_libraries/Web_programming http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Applications_and_librarie... I haven't used any of these, and none of them look super-compelling to me, though HAppS seems fairly mature and full-featured.