Re: [Haskell-cafe] How do people still not understand what FP is about? What are we doing wrong?

2012-06-18 Thread john melesky
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 05:59:57AM +1000, Ben Kolera wrote: Saw this float by in twitter, and it made me a bit sad. Obviously this is still a large misunderstanding of FP in the larger programming community and it make me wonder what we FP enthusiasts are doing wrong to not get the message out

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Libraries for Commercial Users

2009-10-10 Thread John Melesky
On 2009-10-09, at 7:53 PM, John A. De Goes wrote: The vast majority of applications being built today are web apps. I'm not convinced this is the case. There are still a great many enterprise desktop apps and mobile apps being built, and the selection bias towards internet-based

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Where can I find a non-fee-based version of Hudak's paper, Conception, evolution, and application of functional programming languages?

2009-09-17 Thread John Melesky
On 2009-09-17, at 1:41 AM, Benjamin L.Russell wrote: Does anybody know where I can find a non-fee-based version of Paul Hudak's paper, Conception, evolution, and application of functional programming languages [1]? When in doubt, check citeseer.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] TABI 0.1: a typeful tagged cross-language calling convention

2009-07-21 Thread John Melesky
On Jul 21, 2009, at 10:37 AM, Felipe Lessa wrote: it seems to me that the only way of avoiding serialization costs would be having the same representation in memory for all languages and just passing pointers around instead of peek'ing and poke'ing everytime. Alternately, a whole slew of

Re: [Haskell-cafe] about Haskell code written to be too smart

2009-03-24 Thread John Melesky
On Mar 24, 2009, at 1:51 PM, Manlio Perillo wrote: But this may be really a question of personal taste or experience. What is more natural? 1) pattern matching 2) recursion or 1) function composition 2) high level functions I think, actually, that one of the fundamental intuitions of (modern)

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Shooting your self in the foot with Haskell

2008-10-01 Thread John Melesky
On Oct 1, 2008, at 1:46 PM, John Van Enk wrote: You shoot the gun, but the bullet gets trapped in the IO monad. You have a shootFoot function which you've proven correct. QuickCheck validates it for arbitrary you-like values. It will be evaluated only when you end up at the hospital. You

Re: [Haskell-cafe] [Off-topic] Loss of humour

2008-07-23 Thread John Melesky
On Jul 23, 2008, at 1:45 PM, Andrew Coppin wrote: A while back I found a page somewhere containing some rather amusing IRC quotes. Are you perhaps thinking of the Quotes of the Week section in the Haskell Weekly News? Back issues seem to be at http://sequence.complete.org/hwn if you want

Re: [Haskell-cafe] How would you hack it?

2008-06-04 Thread John Melesky
On Jun 4, 2008, at 3:50 PM, Andrew Coppin wrote: However, if you can find me a source that explains what a Markov chain actually *is*, I'd be quite interested. In a non-rigorous nutshell: You have the word star. You want to pick another word to follow it. It turns out that, based on

Re: [Haskell-cafe] is there some book about haskell and data struct and alg?

2008-05-30 Thread John Melesky
On May 30, 2008, at 5:32 AM, Benjamin L. Russell wrote: Actually, the link now points to the following URL (updated by John Melesky): http://www.eecs.usma.edu/webs/people/okasaki/pfds-haskell.tar.gz instead of the following URL (set by Henk-Jan van Tuyl): http://web.archive.org/web

Re: [Haskell-cafe] is there some book about haskell and data struct and alg?

2008-05-29 Thread John Melesky
Looks like Okasaki moved it over when he relocated to the US Military Academy: http://www.eecs.usma.edu/webs/people/okasaki/pfds-haskell.tar.gz I've fixed it on the wiki. -johnnn On May 29, 2008, at 3:56 AM, Henk-Jan van Tuyl wrote: On Thu, 29 May 2008 05:11:54 +0200, Benjamin L.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN (2 Libs) -- hvac 0.1b, a lightweight web framework and HStringTemplate 0.3

2008-03-23 Thread John Melesky
On Mar 23, 2008, at 1:21 AM, Sterling Clover wrote: 1) hvac 0.1b: transactional, declarative framework for lightweight web applications. 2) HStringTemplate 0.3 Excellent! Thanks for these. -johnnn ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list

Re: [Haskell-cafe] File I/O question

2008-03-14 Thread John Melesky
On Mar 12, 2008, at 4:07 PM, Andrew Coppin wrote: I'm trying to read the file from Notepad.exe while my Haskell program is still running - which takes about an hour. I'm not a Windows user, but... Is it possible that Notepad tries to write-lock by default (since it's an editor), and fails?

Re: [Haskell-cafe] IDE?

2007-06-16 Thread John Melesky
On Jun 16, 2007, at 11:10 AM, Andrew Coppin wrote: Give it a go. Start out with the Emacs tutorial [1] so that you have your feet on solid ground, then jump to the Emacs tour [2] to whet your appetite to the breadths of features that Emacs provides. It's a text-mode editor. quod erat

[Haskell-cafe] Any Haskellers in Chicagoland?

2007-05-02 Thread John Melesky
I'd love to post an ANN: Chicago Haskell user group, but i want to make sure there's more than one of me. -johnnn ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe