Tetris in Haskell

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by whalesalad • 17 years ago

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jacquesm3• 17 years ago

this is a video of somebody playing tetris, it could have been programmed in java, haskell or brainfuck for that matter.

Without the code to go with it haskell hasn't got much to do with it. Would be nice to see the source!

whalesalad• 17 years ago

Yeah, the source code would be very good to see.

jacquesm3• 17 years ago

If it is programmed in brainfuck though I'm going to eat my hat or something. Do penance in a major way ;)

amichail2• 17 years ago

Presumably this is newsworthy because building Tetris in Haskell is harder than in an imperative/OO language? Why is that a good thing?

christopherdone• 17 years ago

Presumably this is newsworthy because everyone assumes building Tetris in Haskell is harder than in an imperative/OO language. This is a good thing because it proves that it's not.

boblol1233• 17 years ago

He says its taken him a week to do it and has had to ask lots of people for help. So I'd say its much harder than in a language like C#. I could (and so could most other people here) make tetris in 1-2 days without help.

kiba2• 17 years ago

There is an implementation of tetris in haskell with the source code: http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/people/Ian.Lynagh/Hetris/

I discovered it when a regular contributor contributed an article on the game to my FOSS gaming encyclopedia.

gtt2• 17 years ago

Could you provide the link to the encyclopedia of yours?

kiba2• 17 years ago

Since you wishes so: http://libregamewiki.org

mbrubeck2• 17 years ago

There's a pretty big collection of games (of varying maturity and complexity) at the Haskell Wiki, including a couple of tetrises [1]. One of them, Frag [2], is a pretty cool 3D first-person shooter. It's one of the most popular current downloads from Hackage [3]. The source code [4] is well-factored and uses functional reactive programming (FRP) to model time and user input/output.

1. http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Applications_and_librarie...

2. http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Frag

3. http://donsbot.wordpress.com/2009/08/06/haskell-package-popu...

4. http://code.haskell.org/frag/src/ (Darcs 'get' enabled)

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