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Shell scripts are often a quick, dirty way to get the job done. You glue
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as strings. This is great for some ver…
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51K views44 pagesPractical Haskell Programming: Scripting With Types
Shell scripts are often a quick, dirty way to get the job done. You glue together external tools, maybe do a little error checking and process all data as strings. This is great for some very simple problems but as requirements change and more is demanded from the code shell scripts become unwieldy and fragile. When they get large, they become slow and difficult to maintain. If you need to write robust code then shell is not the way to go. In this talk at an alternative: how to use Haskell as a type checked and natively compiled language for scripting tasks. By refining the semantics of the problem domain, employing abstraction, we produce shorter and more robust code, that is more maintainable and scalable. = About the Speaker = Don is an Australian computer scientist and engineer at Galois, Inc, in Portland, Oregon, where he works on creating trustworthiness and assurance in critical systems, with an emphasis on language design and formal methods. Don is co-author of the award winning book, Real World Haskell (http://realworldhaskell.org), published by O'Reilly, and the XMonad window manager for Unix.
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51K views44 pagesPractical Haskell Programming: Scripting With Types
Shell scripts are often a quick, dirty way to get the job done. You glue
together external tools, maybe do a little error checking and process all data
as strings. This is great for some ver…
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