[Haskell-cafe] Software Engineer, Functional Programmer, Team/Project lead positions

2007-05-23 Thread Isaac Jones
Are you seeking an intellectually challenging position in which you'll be developing cutting edge software using functional programming technologies? Do you aspire to work with a team that shares your level of commitment and enthusiasm to develop tomorrow's high-assurance technology today? Do you

Re: [Haskell] Re: [Haskell-cafe] Google summer of code

2007-03-09 Thread Isaac Jones
Bjorn Bringert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mar 8, 2007, at 10:40 , Simon Marlow wrote: > >> David House wrote: >>> On 06/03/07, Malcolm Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well, our wiki to gather ideas is now up-and-running again: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/summer-of-code >

[Haskell-cafe] Galois Connections seeking a developer

2006-08-30 Thread Isaac Jones
Galois is seeking a full-time candidate for software development and systems integration in the field of high assurance computing. A successful candidate should have a good understanding of the inner workings of databases, good development skills in a number of languages, including at least one fu

Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal specify a "tested version", ghci target?

2006-08-20 Thread Isaac Jones
Duncan Coutts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 2006-08-12 at 03:52 +0200, Marc Weber wrote: >> 1.) >> I know I can use >> Build-Depends: lib == , lib2 < version, lib3 >= >> version >> and so on. >> >> Do you think it would be useful to introducue some notation

[Haskell-cafe] Announcing Halfs, a Haskell Filesystem

2006-04-12 Thread Isaac Jones
Halfs is a filesystem implemented in the functional programming language Haskell. Halfs can be mounted and used like any other Linux filesystem, or used as a library. Halfs is a fork (and a port) of the filesystem developed by Galois Connections. We've created a virtual machine to make using Half

Re: [Haskell-cafe] planet.haskell.org? for Haskell blogs

2006-03-23 Thread Isaac Jones
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: >> Since nobody else seems to have volunteered, I'll try to set this up >> (if I can get the software working). >> If you want your blog listed, email me. I will not add people >> without their consent. Just tell m

[Haskell-cafe] planet.haskell.org? for Haskell blogs

2006-03-22 Thread Isaac Jones
I think someone should volunteer to set up "Planet Haskell" ala Planet Debian, Planet Gnome, Planet Perl, etc. These sites are "Blog aggregators". Basically they just collect the RSS feeds of the community and post their blogs to a web page in a cute format (the gnome one is especially cute, but

[Haskell-cafe] Haskell' Status

2006-02-15 Thread Isaac Jones
I'll try to occasionally post an announcement of the the status of Haskell'[1], the next Haskell standard, so that you can all be aware of my thinking, and our current place in the timeline. There is a list of proposals and a "strawman" categorization of them on the wiki[2]. The categorization re

Re: [Haskell-cafe] darcs: the first haskell tool more popular than Haskell itself?

2006-01-24 Thread Isaac Jones
Iavor Diatchki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: (snip) > yet another thing (and this is debian specific) is that i > use the darcs distributed with debian, which is old but works fine, The darcs shipped w/ Debian "Stable" might be oldish, but that's the darcs that was available when Debian was frozen.

[Haskell-cafe] darcs: the first haskell tool more popular than Haskell itself?

2006-01-24 Thread Isaac Jones
ain enough # information (atime and ctime were 0). #rank nameinst vote old recent no-files (maintainer) 138 darcs563 159 280 124 0 (Isaac Jones) (51) hugs 304 119 15728 0 (Isaac

[Haskell-cafe] Haskell': Kicking off the process of defining the next Haskell standard.

2006-01-21 Thread Isaac Jones
l applications in the Haskell language. We will work closely with the rest of the Haskell community to create this standard. Your Haskell' Committee is as follows (slightly munged email addresses follow): * Manuel M T Chakravarty * John Goerzen * Bastiaan Heeren * Isaac Jones * John

[Haskell-cafe] please send your cabal bug reports, wishlist, and patches!

2006-01-15 Thread Isaac Jones
Greetings, I'm trying hard to get a better hold on the Cabal[1] project, and a more clear idea of all the outstanding work that needs to be done. I've gone through my mailbox to dig up stuff like this, but no doubt some has slipped between the cracks. I started a bug tracker / wiki a few weeks ag

Re: [Haskell-cafe] formal methods & functional programming

2006-01-14 Thread Isaac Jones
Abigail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > I have been searching papers about tha raltionship > between formal methods in software engineering and > functinal programmming, but i haven't found enough > information. I don't think there are any papers, but Galois Connections employs Haskell and fo

[Haskell-cafe] using cabal? add your package to the list!

2006-01-14 Thread Isaac Jones
I started a list of packages using cabal (including those uplaoded to Hackage). Please either upload your packages to hackage, or add it here. I want this list so that I can try to figure out things like how much a given modification to Cabal will break stuff: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hac

[Haskell-cafe] official Cabal / Hackage wiki

2005-12-15 Thread Isaac Jones
The new Cabal / Hackage wiki and bug tracking system is at: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage [1] Please report any Cabal (or HackageDB, cabal-get, etc) bugs there with "new ticket". Trac is pretty neat, you can inter-like wiki pages and tickets, as well as source code. Please feel free

Re: [Haskell] Re: [Haskell-cafe] Interest in helping w/ Haskell standard

2005-10-12 Thread Isaac Jones
(Trimming CC list. Maybe we should take this to haskell-cafe?) Sebastian Sylvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: (snip quotes) > I'm wondering what "incremental and moderate" extension means? > Does it mean "completely backwards compatible" or can it mean > completely new features including ones whic

[Haskell-cafe] Interest in helping w/ Haskell standard

2005-10-12 Thread Isaac Jones
ant to take it to the next level. If you raised your hand, or if you think this describes you, please email John Launchbury at [EMAIL PROTECTED] peace, Isaac Jones & Andres Loeh ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

[Haskell-cafe] hat support in Cabal (was: How to debug GHC)

2005-09-05 Thread Isaac Jones
Malcolm Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Isaac Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> >> 1. Hat requires users to restrict themselves to a certain small subset >> >> of the standard libraries, and to use hmake >> > >> >

Re: [Haskell-cafe] [beta] cabal-get: install haskell packages automatically

2005-09-05 Thread Isaac Jones
Bulat Ziganshin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello Isaac, > > Monday, September 05, 2005, 12:16:46 AM, you wrote: > > IJ> We're looking for beta testers to try out "cabal-get" (for downloading > IJ> and installing) and "cabal-put" (for uploading to the central > IJ> repository). We're also looki

[Haskell-cafe] [beta] cabal-get: install haskell packages automatically

2005-09-04 Thread Isaac Jones
Beta testers wanted! Lemmih (mostly) has been working on a tool which will download and install Haskell packages and their dependencies. This tool should work for any cabal-compatible package. We're looking for beta testers to try out "cabal-get" (for downloading and installing) and "cabal-put"

Re: [Haskell-cafe] How to debug GHC

2005-09-03 Thread Isaac Jones
Bernard Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 14:48 -0700, Frederik Eaton wrote: (snip) >> Are the following correct? >> >> 1. Hat requires users to restrict themselves to a certain small subset >> of the standard libraries, and to use hmake > > Depends what you mean by standar

Re: [Haskell-cafe] haskell and fuse

2005-08-29 Thread Isaac Jones
See also Jeremy Bobbio's fuse bindings here: http://cvs.haskell.org/darcs/hfuse/ I've been using them on the Halfs, the Haskell Filesystem that I'll be demoing at the Haskell Workshop. David Roundy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: (snip) > The FuseIO module itself might be rather interesting for ot

Re: [Haskell-cafe] IO platform for testing

2005-07-17 Thread Isaac Jones
Matej 'Yin' Gagyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: (snip) >>>Please, send me somethung like this (I need to understand it). I need >>>runing more s and with various argument counts and types. All >>>functions "in a bundle" should be in one file. >>> >> > I need a module Main. So, when I write some func

Re: [Haskell-cafe] IO platform for testing

2005-07-16 Thread Isaac Jones
yin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > first I have to apologise for my English. Don't worry about that. > ./bundle01... > > I more apoarches, but no one worked. Now I tried this: > >m01_mod :: Int -> Int -> Int What's m01? You define b01 below: >b01_mod a b = a mod b You must type

Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal --user question

2005-07-10 Thread Isaac Jones
Frederik Eaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > How do I install a package in the user package.conf with cabal? It is > not clear to me how to do this, looking at the output of 'configure > --help'. There is an option "--user" to get dependencies from the user > cabal file but this still, som

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal with Alex and and Happy

2005-07-05 Thread Isaac Jones
Brian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there an example of how to build a Cabal package that has a lexer > generated with Alex and a parser generated with Happy? As far as I > can tell, the way to do this is to add "Other-Modules: > Module.Name.Of.Parser.y Module.Name.Of.Lexer.x" to each >

Re: [Haskell-cafe] can't build module with ffi 'wrapper' by cabal (or ghc): unknown symbol

2005-07-05 Thread Isaac Jones
Evgeny Chukreev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 22:05:49 +0400 > /Evgeny/ /Chukreev/ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote me: > > EC> gcc src/Codec/Mhash_stub.c -o ... > EC> /usr/bin/ar qv dist/build/libHSHMhash-0.1.a dist/build/src/Codec/Mhash.o > EC> /usr/bin/ar: creating dist/build/l

[Haskell-cafe] Haskell-related Job Posting, Portland OR area

2005-05-17 Thread Isaac Jones
Galois Connections does most of its development in Haskell, and this job may involve some Haskell development, so I felt it was on topic for this list. Senior Test Engineer Galois Connections, Inc., located near Portland, Oregon, designs and develops high confidence software for critical appli

[Haskell-cafe] hackage, cabal-get, and security

2005-05-10 Thread Isaac Jones
Followups to [EMAIL PROTECTED], please. I'm working with Lemmih on the designs for Hackage and Cabal-Get. He's a real trooper, since I'm a total "customer" and have hardly written a line of code for these tools, but keep coming up with new requirements. The basic interaction we would like is this

Re: [Haskell-cafe] A little bit OT: Google as a global directory/resolver for cabalized packages?

2005-05-02 Thread Isaac Jones
Dimitry Golubovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If one tries to search Google: > > http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&q=exposed-modules+version+filetype%3Acabal&btnG=Search > > it returns URLs of all Google-indexed .cabal files (currently 7- just this > few?) That's certainly not a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell example archive?

2005-04-24 Thread Isaac Jones
Echo Nolan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello all, > I recently read the post about a problem using the list monad, > and I was wondering if there was an archive of monad usecases. If there > is one, I'd like to see it, and if not it'd be a helpful part of the > haskell community. Something

Re: [Haskell-cafe] A few questions on using Cabal

2005-03-31 Thread Isaac Jones
Niklas Broberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've just started experimenting with the new Cabal system, and I must > say it's really sweet. Thanks a lot to all involved! Yay! > After trying it on some simple tasks I have collected a few questions: > > * What about 'setup uninstall'? Surely there

[Haskell-cafe] ANN: Cabal 0.5 (GHC 6.4 release candidate)

2005-02-19 Thread Isaac Jones
://www.haskell.org/cabal/download.html BUGS: Please report bugs and wish-list items to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and Isaac Jones: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ABOUT: The Haskell Cabal is meant to be a part of a larger infrastructure for distributing, organizing, and cataloging Haskell Libraries and Tools. It is an effort to

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: new Haskell hacker seeking peer review

2005-02-18 Thread Isaac Jones
John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here's an alternative: > > module Main where (snip john's version) And what list would be complete without a points-free version. It doesn't operate on stdin, though like John's does: pointsFreeCat :: IO () pointsFreeCat = getArgs >>= mapM readFile >>

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Parse error in a package file

2005-02-13 Thread Isaac Jones
Dmitri Pissarenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello! > > I'm building the haskell-jvm-bridge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/jvm- > bridge/). > > The final step of the building procedure is to install the package of haskell- > jvm-bridge. > > When I enter ghc-pkg -a -f javavm.ghc-pkg I'm gettin

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: library documentation

2005-01-29 Thread Isaac Jones
Peter Simons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Isaac Jones writes: > > > http://www.haskell.org/hawiki/LibraryDocsNeedingHelp > > This is a great idea. > > I have been thinking you know what would make > contribution to the library efforts even simpler? If

[Haskell-cafe] library documentation [was: File path programme]

2005-01-26 Thread Isaac Jones
"Georg Martius" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I think Isaac's idea is pretty nice, to have an easy way to add documentation > in a collaborative manner. > I have the following in mind: Well, I've added a much less glorious page than yours on the wiki: http://www.haskell.org/hawiki/Libra

Re: [Haskell-cafe] File path programme

2005-01-25 Thread Isaac Jones
Mark Carroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote: > (snip) >> If problems are in the implementation but the interface is right, then >> the module should be provided. It can be fixed later. > (snip) > > A lot of the Haskell libraries are sufficiently

Re: [Haskell-cafe] File path programme

2005-01-22 Thread Isaac Jones
You might be interested in the new FilePath module that's in the works. There's been a lot of work to make these functions portable. http://cvs.haskell.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/fptools/libraries/base/System/FilePath.hs peace, isaac ___ Haskell-Cafe m

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Books on Haskell

2005-01-17 Thread Isaac Jones
Dmitri Pissarenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What book can you recommend? I reviewed The Haskell School of Expression on Slashdot a few months ago.: http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/12/221232 peace, isaac ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing l

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Unit testing in Haskell

2005-01-12 Thread Isaac Jones
Matthew Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> I find that I don't need unit testing frameworks. A few features of >> Haskell and the associated interpreters (ghci and hugs) combine to >> make "unit testing as you go" really easy. I just write a few tests >> for each function I write and then

[Haskell-cafe] more haskell in the news (for nerds)

2004-12-04 Thread isaac jones
(please followup-to haskell-cafe) This slashdot story mentions Haskell being used to solve puzzles: http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/04/12/04/0116231.shtml?tid=159&tid=156 I did a quick search on slashdot to discover that Haskell has been in the topic of a slashdot story 4 times in the

[Haskell-cafe] 500 great lines of Haskell code?

2004-10-06 Thread Isaac Jones
This might be an interesting way to highlight the beauty and brevity of Haskell. Has anyone written a great 500-line Haskell program they want to submit? peace, isaac http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/06/1530218&tid=156&tid=8 "Be part of the Open Source Annual 2005 and ent

[Haskell-cafe] new Library Infrastructure spec.

2004-06-01 Thread Isaac Jones
vary. Haskell compilers vary. Packages have dependencies. Etc. Isaac Jones has coordinated an effort to address this problem. We've had a lot of discussion between him and (at least some of) the folk involved in the GHC, Hugs, and nhc implementations. This discussion has led to a new con

Re: Library Infrastructure code & help wanted

2004-01-21 Thread Isaac Jones
"Simon Marlow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip a lot] > The idea, as I understand it, is that we're going to provide two main > APIs: > > (b) The high-level API (Distribution.Core in the example). Used > by simple Setup.lhs scripts to provide generic build, install, > and package re

LIP and the AAP project

2004-01-19 Thread Isaac Jones
Greetings, Now that I have at least gotten something started on the Library Infrastructure Project, I'm going to bend some of my energy toward the build/install issues for Haskell modules. The plan at this point, which is summarized on the project web site[1] is to attempt to leverage HMake's use

Library Infrastructure code & help wanted

2004-01-18 Thread Isaac Jones
Greetings, I'm looking for some help on the library infrastructure project. The project and its goals are explained here: http://www.haskell.org/libraryInfrastructure/ And the code is here: http://www.haskell.org/libraryInfrastructure/code.html In brief, the Library Infrastructure Project is

Re: Alex 1.x still available somewhere?

2003-10-19 Thread Isaac Jones
Peter Simons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I'm playing with the BNF Converter and like it very much. > But unfortunately, it generates code for Alex version 1, not > 2. All I could find is the _new_ Alex version, so I wonder: > Does anyone know an URL, where I can still get the old > versi

Re: replacing guile with haskell?

2003-10-17 Thread Isaac Jones
David Roundy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Do you want to embed Haskell code or to embed a Haskell interpreter? > > I actually would like to embed a Haskell interpreter. (snip) > H. I may be able to get by without calling haskell functions from C. > Most of the work would be done in C, and

new debian packages and archive: haskell experimental

2003-07-15 Thread Isaac Jones
Greetings, I've set up a Debian archive (apt source) for experimental Haskell packages and backports. For instance, in the "unstable" section, you might find bleeding edge packages which will eventually be uploaded to Debian if they work (like the arrow preprocessor). In the "stable" section, yo

chance to help out on the wiki

2003-06-13 Thread Isaac Jones
Greetings. We added a page "Fundamental Concepts" to the wiki so that we might have a very specific reference to pass along to people with questions, and to add links to definitions throughout the wiki. http://www.haskell.org/hawiki/FundamentalConcepts A lot of concepts need to be filled in, and

SOE exercise

2002-10-22 Thread Isaac Jones
(I'm not sure why my postings seem somewhat anonymous, I'll mess with the headers in this post to see if that fixes it. I post to other mailman lists and haven't noticed this problem.) I'm working through Paul Hudak's SOE, and have a question about problem 9.4, which is to define a function apply