Re: [Haskell-cafe] Opportunity for Haskell porting to java at R&D labs in Bay Area, CA

2010-11-11 Thread namekuseijin
given all Oracle woes in the last few months, I'd say this is a terrible timing and terrible decision. How about instead an experienced Haskell programmer to best leverage it rather than a junior who's learned java at university and has just read "Learn Haskell in 2 weeks"? On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Fwd: Questions about lambda calculus

2010-11-10 Thread namekuseijin
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Ryan Ingram wrote: > Max has a good solution, but another solution is to embed an untyped > lambda calculus into Haskell > > -- "atom" is just used for output during testing > data U = Atom Int | F (U -> U) > > instance Show U where >   show (Atom s) = s >   show (

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: "Haskell is a scripting language inspiredby Python."

2010-11-08 Thread namekuseijin
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 6:42 AM, Ketil Malde wrote: > Luke Palmer writes: > >>  To us, scripting meant short, potent code that rolled off your >> fingers and into the computers mind, compelling it to do your job with >> reverence to the super power you truly are. > > Just when I thought, oh, there

Re: [OT] Re: [Haskell-cafe] "Haskell is a scripting language inspired by Python."

2010-11-08 Thread namekuseijin
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Dan Doel wrote: > On Thursday 04 November 2010 12:12:51 pm Jeremy O'Donoghue wrote: > >> Best laugh I've had in ages. Personal favourites are: > > The Forth one got me. I also like: > > OCaml: "OCaml is an attempt to implement object-oriented syntax in Caml. It is >

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: cil-0.1.0

2010-11-08 Thread namekuseijin
I can see some haskellers grinding their teeth and hurrying to make their own rewrite of CIL itself in haskell. On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Tom Hawkins wrote: > CIL (C Intermediate Language) [1], not to be confused with the Common > Intermediate Language, is a mature OCaml library that parses

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Forum

2010-07-27 Thread namekuseijin
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 12:09 AM, aditya siram wrote: > We have a Google group. Doesn't that qualify? One can't post to Haskell Cafe through the usenet/NNTP/google group interface... ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.hask

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cal, Clojure, Groovy, Haskell, OCaml, etc.

2009-09-30 Thread namekuseijin
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 11:50 PM, Hong Yang wrote: > learn and use. In my humble opinion, Haskell has a lot of libraries, but > most of them offer few examples of how to use the modules. In this regards, > Perl is much much better. The Perl call is spot on. Specially because Haskell has been inc

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Parallel graphics

2009-09-15 Thread namekuseijin
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 8:48 AM, Andrew Coppin wrote: > Using explicit threads has the nice side-effect... side-effects are bad! ;-) ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell programmers in São Carlo s - SP - Brazil?

2009-05-25 Thread namekuseijin
heh, a Lisp-br community of about 100 people generates about some 1 message a month. I won't even try to guess 5 Haskellers from Sao Paulo. :P 2009/5/23 Daniel Yokomizo : > Hey, we have enough people for a São Paulo Haskell User Group. > Anyone else interested? > > Best regards, > Daniel Yokomizo

Re: Is 78 characters still a good option? Was: [Haskell-cafe] breaking too long lines

2009-04-25 Thread namekuseijin
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Neil Mitchell wrote: >> P.S. We really need such a well written style guide for >> haskell. Python has this nice PEP (Python Enhancement >> Proposals). Should we start making our own HEP? > > We have one: urchin.earth.li/~ian/style/haskell.html It sho

Re: Is 78 characters still a good option? Was: [Haskell-cafe] breaking too long lines

2009-04-25 Thread namekuseijin
2009/4/21 Edward Kmett : > I find a hard 80 character line length limit to be somewhat ridiculous in > this day and age. I've long since revised my personal rule of thumb upwards > towards 132, if only because I can still show two windows of that side by > side with no worries, along with all the I

Re: Is 78 characters still a good option? Was: [Haskell-cafe] breaking too long lines

2009-04-25 Thread namekuseijin
It's surely more than enough to Haskell, Python, Perl, C++ and other very concise and expressive languages. But for Java and the likes it may well be just barely enough for a single *identifier* alone!! :P 2009/4/21 Dusan Kolar : > Dear all, > >  reading that > >> according the several style gui