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How about links to any random thing (tetris, etc) implemented in Haskell?

• mr_luc 17y ago
  Aha! Trenchant observation, old fizgig! To be fair, I've read a couple of articles like that and (to me, at least) they've been interesting because they'll sometimes explain the approach they had to take to support state in something as interactive as a game. So I always have a kind of morbid fascination with Haskell articles. It's so foreign; like a silicon-based life form. Still, my morbid fascinations will lead me to find those articles on my own, and do, before I see them linked on HN. But if our goal is to "smelt an ever-purer" HN, it seems we should only submit a link to 'implementation of Canonical Application X in language L' if it answers one or both of the following: 1) How is the approach (non-trivially) different in L than in most languages? Did the language make something harder or easier? Why? 2) What about the implementer's experience is of value to us? Any gotchas to look out for?