I want to thank everyone who provided pointers for the last question about
this. They were a big help. We're now trying to narrow things down a bit.
If you have either converted part of a business project from a language
like ruby or python to Haskell, or have a business project that integrates
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 5:18 AM, Tom Ellis
tom-lists-haskell-cafe-2...@jaguarpaw.co.uk wrote:
Are there examples where application programmers would like there so be
some
f, a and b such that a == b but f a /= f b (efficiency concerns aside)? I
can't think of any obvious ones.
Yes, and we
11:31 AM, MigMit wrote:
The classical reference is, I think, the paper “Haskell vs. Ada vs. C++
vs. Awk vs. ... An Experiment in Software Prototyping Productivity”
On Sep 23, 2013, at 9:20 PM, Mike Meyer m...@mired.org wrote:
Hi all,
I'm looking for articles that provide some technical
I got some clarification on what unpublished means for FP Complete
competition entries.
Basically, you can enter code that you've already published, providing it
has an appropriate license (or can be republished with such a license). The
tutorial/description/documentation that shows how to use it
Hi all,
I'm looking for articles that provide some technical support for why
Haskell rocks. Not just cheerleading, but something with a bit of real
information in it - a comparison of code snippets in multiple languages, or
the results of a study on programmer productivity (given all the noise
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 2:21 AM, Bardur Arantsson s...@scientician.net
wrote:
On 2013-09-21 06:16, Mike Meyer wrote:
The single biggest gotcha is that two calculations
we expect to be equal often aren't. As a result of this, we warn
people not to do equality comparison on floats.
The Eq
On Sep 21, 2013 9:17 AM, Bob Hutchison hutch-li...@recursive.ca wrote:
On 2013-09-21, at 4:46 AM, Stijn van Drongelen rhym...@gmail.com wrote:
I do have to agree with Damodar Kulkarni that different laws imply
different classes. However, this will break **a lot** of existing software.
You could
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 5:28 PM, Bardur Arantsson s...@scientician.net
wrote:
On 2013-09-21 23:08, Mike Meyer wrote:
Exactly. The Eq and Ord instances aren't what's broken, at least when
you're dealing with numbers (NaNs are another story). That there are
pairs
According to Haskell NaN
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 11:17 AM, damodar kulkarni kdamodar2...@gmail.com
wrote:
Ok, let's say it is the effect of truncation. But then how do you explain
this?
Oh, it's a trunaction error all right.
Prelude sqrt 10.0 == 3.1622776601683795
True
Prelude sqrt 10.0 == 3.1622776601683796
True
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 7:35 PM, damodar kulkarni kdamodar2...@gmail.com
wrote:
This seems a good step forward, removing the Eq instance altogether on
floating point types would be much better; (unless as pointed out by
Brandon, you have a very clever representation that can store
(floats) in
On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Tommy Thorn tt1...@yahoo.com wrote:
This is interesting and I wish them luck, but it seems surprising
that the below link doesn't have as much as a screenshot (for an IDE,
you kind of expect to see what it looks like).
If you follow the link that says Product
I've been working with open source rc aircraft transmitter software,
and in looking at the shortcomings of one of them, started thinking
about embedding a language. There are a number of options that can
work here, like FORTH or a basic. But then I realized that Haskell -
or similar functional
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Jeremy Shaw jer...@n-heptane.com wrote:
Another option would be to use Atom. I have successfully used it to
target the arduino platform before. Running the entire OS on the
embedded system seems dubious. Assuming you are using something the 9x
family of
On Wed, 2 Jan 2013 13:48:07 +0400
MigMit miguelim...@yandex.ru wrote:
On Jan 2, 2013, at 10:52 AM, Mike Meyer m...@mired.org wrote:
MigMit miguelim...@yandex.ru wrote:
But really, Design by Contract — a theory? It certainly is a useful
approach, but it doesn't seem to be a theory, not until
MigMit miguelim...@yandex.ru wrote:
On Jan 1, 2013, at 10:23 PM, Никитин Лев leon.v.niki...@pravmail.ru
wrote:
Eiffel, for my opinion, is a best OOP language. Meyer use a
theoretical approach as it is possible in OOP.
Really? Because when I studied it I had a very different impression:
that
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MigMit miguelim...@yandex.ru wrote:
But really, Design by Contract — a theory? It certainly is a useful
approach, but it doesn't seem to be a theory, not until we can actually
prove something about it, and Eiffel doesn't seem to offer anything in
this
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 7:46 AM, Strake strake...@gmail.com wrote:
Disclaimer: My own experience with OO is limited.
Mine isn't quite so much...
On 30/12/2012, Daniel Díaz Casanueva dhelta.d...@gmail.com wrote:
My programming life (which has started about 3-4 years ago) has always been
in
On 12/17/12, Ketil Malde ke...@malde.org wrote:
I would use copying to mean verbatim cut-and-pasting, which is something
else.
I feel I should point out that, while that's currently a common
definition of copying, it's not the legal definition. Copyright law
predates the ability to
Ketil Malde ke...@malde.org wrote:
Mike Meyer m...@mired.org writes:
Niklas Larsson metanik...@gmail.com wrote:
2012/12/15 Mike Meyer m...@mired.org:
Only if Tanenbaum documented the internal behavior of Linux before
it was written.
Tannenbaum wrote Minix, the operating system that Linus used
Ketil Malde ke...@malde.org wrote:
In particular when copyright is concerned, I believe that verbatim
copying in many cases will require a license to the original work, but
merly examining the original work to make use of algorithms, tricks,
and
structures from it will not.
If you don't actually
Ketil Malde ke...@malde.org wrote:
Clark Gaebel cgae...@uwaterloo.ca writes:
I just did a quick derivation from
http://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html#RoundUpPowerOf2
A copyrighted work, you say?
The work is copyrighted, the snippets are placed in the placed in the public
domain.
Niklas Larsson metanik...@gmail.com wrote:
2012/12/15 Mike Meyer m...@mired.org:
Only if Tanenbaum documented the internal behavior of Linux before it
was written.
Tannenbaum wrote Minix, the operating system that Linus used (and
hacked on) before he did Linux. Minix contained lots of features
in the company code base is that it opens them up to the
possibility of a lawsuit. That the original author said it was derived
from GPL'ed code was sufficient to cause at least one lawyer to
believe that a case existed.
mike
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software that is covered by such a license. You can find
a list of these licenses at:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLIncompatibleLicenses
and following, which lists licenses used for open source but aren't
considered free licenses by the GNU folks.
mike
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Niklas Larsson metanik...@gmail.com wrote:
2012/12/12 Niklas Larsson metanik...@gmail.com:
There is no copied code from FXT (which can be said with certainty as
FXT is a C library), hence the there can be copyright issue.
Gah, I should proofread! NO copyright issue, of course.
Um, no.
David Thomas davidleotho...@gmail.com wrote:
... and OS X and iOS are clearly a win for the FLOSS community?
Yes. The parts of it that are willing to use BSD-licensed software, anyway.
Apple does release sources to some of their toys. They released all of OS X
below the GUI level, for
Heinrich Apfelmus apfel...@quantentunnel.de wrote:
Christopher Howard wrote:
Concerning a university education, there are two approaches
1. I want to learn as much as possible
2. I want to learn just enough to get a high-paying job
There's actually a third approach ( and probably more):
3. I
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 3:45 AM, Gregory Collins
g...@gregorycollins.net wrote:
If you have a hard real-time requirement then a garbage-collected
language may not be appropriate for you.
This is a common meme, but frankly, it isn't true. When writing
real-time code, you just need to make sure
Jacques Carette care...@mcmaster.ca wrote:
On 22/11/2012 11:52 AM, Brandon Allbery wrote:
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 7:56 AM, Jacques Carette care...@mcmaster.ca
mailto:care...@mcmaster.ca wrote:
On 20/11/2012 6:08 PM, Richard O'Keefe wrote:
On 21/11/2012, at 4:49 AM,
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Albert Y. C. Lai tre...@vex.net wrote:
On 12-11-20 08:20 PM, Johan Tibell wrote:
This logic is flawed. More than 90% of computers having Windows doesn't
imply that 90% of all computers in a given household runs Windows.
What's the probability that your
Evan Laforge qdun...@gmail.com wrote:
I wonder if people who like one giant window maybe don't use the REPL?
I keep 3 windows open: one with the editor, one with ghci, and one
with a shell.
[...]
I've tried with 3 terminals but I can never figure out what to do
with the extra ones.
Besides
Colin Adams colinpaulad...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm not viewing on a narrow device, and I see the wrapped (and the
whole
post confined to the centre of the screen).
I certainly don't use an 80-column limit any more. I use the rule:
A function must be completely visible in my editor on my screen.
locks, and locks on files that are closed on exec
will unexpectedly close them in the parent.
mike
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