Re: [Haskell-cafe] Darcs users [was: New book: Real-World Haskell!]

2007-05-29 Thread Doug Kirk
I didn't say there weren't others, simply that I didn't know of any others (I don't just go looking for things online all the time...having a real job really gets in the way of these things)! So I wasn't really trying to disparage darcs. But here's another statistic:

Re: [Haskell-cafe] New book: Real-World Haskell!

2007-05-29 Thread Doug Kirk
view, edit, and commit files (or my favorite svn feature, a set of files atomically) from wherever I happen to be working. On 5/29/07, Jules Bean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doug Kirk wrote: No offense to the darcs creators, but 1) Only current Haskellers use it; everyone else either uses

Re: [Haskell-cafe] New book: Real-World Haskell!

2007-05-25 Thread Doug Kirk
What about a public darcs repository where people can constantly download and review modifications? People could even send patches to the authors (editors?). I realise that everyone wants to eat their own dog food, but really, if you want the code samples to be available to the masses, you'll

Re: [Haskell-cafe] New book: Real-World Haskell!

2007-05-25 Thread Doug Kirk
Last time I read O'Reilly's policy, it stated that you're free to suggest an animal, but that they have a full-time person that makes the decision on which animal is on the book. However, the bigger issue is that anybody familiar with O'Reillys product lines knows that their Real World series

Re: [Haskell-cafe] COM and Haskell

2007-04-19 Thread Doug Kirk
I hate to recommend Java to Haskellers, but there is a project named Poi at Apache's Jakarta site[1] that will allow you to (with some Java programming) read, write, and manipulate Excel files directly. You don't have to COM to Excel, you don't even need Excel installed! Nice for producing

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Integrating Haskell into a J2EE environment

2004-10-05 Thread Doug Kirk
You're going to spend alot of time marshalling between Java and Haskell values, and you'll either have to do it via JNI or by using pipes [as in System.exec(haskellprogram param param param)], both of which are ugly for a Java app. Have you looked at Jython and JRuby? Jython is an