Last monday (February 8, 2010) Sebastiaan Visser and I presented our ongoing work on the AwesomePrelude at the Dutch Haskell User Group meeting. In a previous post “Deeply embedded DSLs in Haskell”, I introduced the AwesomePrelude. While the ideas behind that post haven’t changed, the implementation of the AwesomePrelude is radically different now. The... »
Haskell is a great language for building embedded domain specific languages. Using algebraic data types and higher order functions, it’s very easy to work with and reason about an embedded language. This week at the ICFP, several people commented on how Haskell allowed them to build custom control structures and express ideas more clearly.... »