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Ok, I have to admit, I have no idea if this is an April fool's joke or not.
Congratulations for demonstrating that April fools jokes can still be subtle
(whether intentionally or not!) -- [[Jon]]
> Having said all that, have you looked at erlang? Have you heard of couchdb?
> I'd strongly recommend looking at that. -- [[Jon]]
>> I've glanced at couchdb, but don't see how it would tie in with ikiwiki.
>> --[[Joey]]
>>> It doesn't really. I recently (re-)read about couchdb and thought that
>>> what it was trying to do had some comparisons with the thinking going on
>>> in [[todo/structured_page_data]]. -- [[Jon]]
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I'm torn about this idea, if it's actually serious. I'm very comfortable programming in Perl, and have written quite a few modules for IkiWiki, and it would be a huge pain to have to start from scratch all over again.
On the other hand, this could be a motivation for me to learn Haskell. My only encounter with Haskell has been a brief time when I was using the Xmonad window manager, but it looks like an interesting language. Functional programming is cool.
There are a lot of interesting plusses for Haskell you note (in the parent page), but it's true that the idea is horribly daunting (as [[Joey]] said "If only I had a spare year"). Is there any way that you could "start small"? Because nothing will ever happen if the task is too daunting to even start.
--[[KathrynAndersen]]
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