I recently wrote my bachelor thesis about functional reactive programming. In the course of it I implemented a very simple scene with Yampa and an OpenGL binding for Haskell. The reason I chose Haskell was mainly because I never had a functional programming course in university and decided that I want to give it a try. (The code is at https://github.com/Joe-Z/yampa-programming if you are interested).

The problem, in my opinion, of so much of functional programming research is that the presented applications are most often developed only for the sake of one or two research papers and then stopped pursuing. This leads to various papers, scattered across the internet, which all hold some precious information, but are incredibly hard to put together and make real world things out of them (I remember, when I just recently had to search through 7 years of Yampa mailing list, to maybe find some information on a problem I had).

Which is why I decided to add some Yampa “Hello world”-like programs to the aforementioned repository, so lone wanderers through the field of FRP are not so lost after all.

[edit: should me more readable with paragraphs...]