Re: Haskell as a relational database language

1998-12-15 Thread David Glen JEFFERY
On 14-Dec-1998, Patrick Logan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The open software Erlang system comes with a distributed database implemented in Erlang where the "query language" is based on list (table) comprehensions. That may serve as an example for what a Haskell database may be like. You

Re: category theory

1998-10-16 Thread David Glen JEFFERY
On 15-Oct-1998, Hans Aberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 17:25 +1000 98/10/15, David Glen JEFFERY wrote: Does something like this exist? FWIW, I'm using Hugs 1.4 I gather that "FWIW" is yet another SSMA; what does it mean? For What It's Worth. Okay... I'll bite. What's SSM

Re: category theory

1998-10-15 Thread David Glen JEFFERY
On 14-Oct-1998, S. Alexander Jacobson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having only recently learned to use Monads and appreciate their utility, I am encountering new category-theoretic material in reading about arrows in Jansson and Jeuring's Polytypic Compact Printing and Parsing paper. It

Re: Haskell, CORBA and Java (Was: Re: Current state of GUI...)

1998-08-10 Thread David Glen JEFFERY
On 09-Aug-1998, Erik Meijer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Tim, The Haskell Server page claims that one advantage of COM is that it "ships for free with windows". This suggests that the existence of a genuinely free CORBA ORB has been overlooked. IMHO ignoring CORBA is cutting Haskell off