Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell as a first language?

2009-07-14 Thread Gareth Smith
> On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 03:01 -0700, Michael Vanier wrote: > > Haskell is a wonderful language (my favorite language by far) but it is > > pretty difficult for a beginner. In fact, it is pretty difficult for > > anyone to learn in my experience, because it has so many advanced > > concepts that si

[Haskell-cafe] Call for Participation: Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop - a POPL workshop.

2012-11-17 Thread Gareth Smith
Mentoring Workshop at POPL 2012, we proudly announce the 2nd SIGPLAN Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop (PLMW), co-located with POPL 2013 and organised by Nate Foster, Philippa Gardner, Alan Schmitt, Gareth Smith, Peter Thieman and Tobias Wrigstad. The purpose of this mentoring workshop is to

[Haskell-cafe] PLMW: Mentoring at POPL. Second Call for Participation

2012-12-04 Thread Gareth Smith
resounding success of the first Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop at POPL 2012, we proudly announce the 2nd SIGPLAN Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop (PLMW), co-located with POPL 2013 and organised by Nate Foster, Philippa Gardner, Alan Schmitt, Gareth Smith, Peter Thieman and Tobias Wrigstad

[Haskell-cafe] runghc dies silently when given large numbers of arguments

2013-06-07 Thread Gareth Smith
Hi all, The other day, I wrote the following program in /tmp/test.hs --8<---cut here---start->8--- main = error "An Error message" --8<---cut here---end--->8--- Then I ran the following: , | gds@lithium:/tmp$ runghc ./