Comparing libraries for generic programming in haskell

• DOI: 10.1145/1411286.1411301
• Publication Date: 2008-09-30T13:03:19Z
• Authors: Alexey Rodriguez; Johan Jeuring; Patrik Jansson; Alex Gerdes; Oleg Kiselyov; Bruno C. d. S. Ol...
• Keywords: Haskell; Generic programming; Benchmark (surveying); Programmer; Functional reactive programming

Datatype-generic programming is defining functions that depend on the structure, or "shape", of datatypes. It has been around for more than 10 years, and a lot progress made, in particular lazy functional language Haskell. There are morethan proposals generic libraries orlanguage extensions To compare characterise many atyped language, we introduce set criteria develop benchmark: characteristic examples testing various facets datatype-generic programming. We have implemented benchmark nine existing Haskell present evaluation libraries. The comparison useful reaching common standard programming, but also programmer who to choose approach