[SGVLUG] Possible talk

[Christopher Smith]

Dustin Laurence wrote:
> On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 11:40:34AM -0700, Michael Proctor-Smith wrote:
> IIRC they were using OCaml for hardware detection in the initrd and are
> starting to use Haskell for the build system they are developing.  I
> agree that the unix init scripts are in desperate need of rewriting, but
> I don't think they're tackling that.  (Part of the problem is that it's
> been tackled many times with no clear concensus about a winner.)

Haskell's sort of inherent lazy evaluation properties would really make
for a sweet init script system though, much like the "make" based init
system someone posted a while back.

--Chris