Conference proceeding
Experience report: using hackage to inform language design
Proceedings of the third ACM Haskell symposium on haskell, pp.61-66
Haskell '10
09/30/2010
DOI: 10.1145/1863523.1863531
Abstract
Hackage, an online repository of Haskell applications and libraries, provides a hub for programmers to both release code to and use code from the larger Haskell community. We suggest that Hackage can also serve as a valuable resource for language designers: by providing a large collection of code written by different programmers and in different styles, it allows language designers to see not just how features could be used theoretically, but how they are (and are not) used in practice.
We were able to make such a use of Hackage during the design of the class system for a new Haskell-like programming language. In this paper, we sketch our language design problem, and how we used Hackage to help answer it. We describe our methodology in some detail, including both ways that it was and was not effective, and summarize our results.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Experience report: using hackage to inform language design
- Creators
- J Garrett Morris - Computer Science
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Publication Details
- Proceedings of the third ACM Haskell symposium on haskell, pp.61-66
- Series
- Haskell '10
- DOI
- 10.1145/1863523.1863531
- Publisher
- ACM
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 09/30/2010
- Academic Unit
- Computer Science
- Record Identifier
- 9984259483702771
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