Re: [Haskell-cafe] The wheather is ⊥

2009-02-15 Thread Neil Bartlett
It depends whether that's NaN ºC or NaN ºF. 2009/2/15 Fraser Wilson blancoli...@gmail.com: Is that really cold or really hot? On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 11:27 PM, Henk-Jan van Tuyl hjgt...@chello.nl wrote: The temperature is now NaN°: http://traviswalters.net/?p=58 -- Met vriendelijke

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell and Java

2008-09-12 Thread Neil Bartlett
+1 Due to the commercial environment I work in, there's really no chance of me using Haskell at work unless it runs under JVM or CLR. Brian, consider yourself nagged! And if there's anywhere you need some help, please yell. Neil On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 8:44 AM, John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: STM in F#

2008-01-18 Thread Neil Bartlett
On 18 Jan 2008, at 09:01, apfelmus wrote: Don Stewart wrote: http://cs.hubfs.net/blogs/hell_is_other_languages/archive/2008/01/16/4565.aspx I imagine this can only ease the process of learning Haskell, and broaden the base of possible Haskellers, as more people on using .NET stuff become

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GUI

2007-12-14 Thread Neil Bartlett
I have just successfully built Gtk2Hs against the native Mac OS X port of Gtk at: http://developer.imendio.com/projects/gtk-macosx This implies we can now use Gtk2Hs on the Mac without X11. The sample apps still look rather alien compared to normal Mac apps, but they are a big

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: Shu-thing 1.0 and Monadius 0.9

2007-12-04 Thread Neil Bartlett
Hi Gwern, Shu-thing is great fun! I think Monadius isn't compiling because most of the source files are missing; you only have Main.hs in there. Regards Neil On 4 Dec 2007, at 01:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone. With the permission of the authors, I'd like to announce the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Dynamic thread management?

2007-08-22 Thread Neil Bartlett
multicore box ;-) It's my main show-stopper right now. Any clues on how to get access to one, eg via ssh? 32-core or higher would be favorite ;-) but I guess even just a 4-core or so is enough for proof-of-concept? I think you'll have plenty of work to be before you get to the stage of

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Erlang VM in Haskell

2007-08-16 Thread Neil Bartlett
Joel, This sounds like an extremely interesting (but very ambitious!) project, which I would like to get involved with if I have the time. However, wouldn't it be rather difficult, given that there doesn't seem to be a publicly available specification for the Erlang VM or the BEAM file format --

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Dynamic thread management?

2007-08-11 Thread Neil Bartlett
Hugh, I certainly think it would be wrong to declare that NDP is doomed to failure... not because you would be making an enemy of SPJ (I'm pretty sure you wouldn't!) but because it actually aims to solves a less ambitious problem: the problem of parallelising the SAME task applied to different

[Haskell-cafe] ANN: London Haskell User Group

2007-04-26 Thread Neil Bartlett
I am delighted to announce the first meeting of the London Haskell User Group on Wednesday 23rd May from 6:30PM. The meeting will be held at City University's main campus in central London, and Simon Peyton Jones will be coming to give a talk. Please see the announcement on the web page

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Tutorial on Haskell

2007-04-16 Thread Neil Bartlett
Well, given that concurrency is a hot topic at the moment, how about something based on STM? E.g. perhaps some kind of instant messaging server? Or Twitter except scalable. By ruthlessly eliminating features, you could get the core of one of these down to something that could be built in three

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Lambada and connecting Haskell to a Weblogic server

2007-02-11 Thread Neil Bartlett
Joel, Implementing Java RMI in Haskell sounds like a nightmare. Why not use HTTP? You could easily write a wrapper Servlet that speaks XML or JSON over HTTP, and deploy that to the Weblogic server. Unless you don't have permission to deploy anything to that server for whatever reason.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Channel9 Interview: Software Composability and theFu ture of Languages

2007-02-01 Thread Neil Bartlett
The question is --- how would an expert describe such a process? Would a professional chef give instructions in the functional or imperative style? I think a sufficiently expert chef would not even need the functional style. Everything would be declarative. Dave Thomas (of Pragmatic

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Channel9 Interview: Software Composability and the Future of Languages

2007-01-31 Thread Neil Bartlett
C# [..] has all the problems of language created by committee Whereas Haskell has all the benefits of a language created by committee! Actually, wasn't C# largely created by one man, Anders Hejlsberg? - Neil ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list

[Haskell-cafe] Channel9 Interview: Software Composability and the Future of Languages

2007-01-26 Thread Neil Bartlett
No doubt many of you will have seen the interview[1] on Channel9 with Anders Hejlsberg, Herb Sutter, Erik Meijer and Brian Beckman. These are some of Microsoft's top language gurus, and they discuss the future evolution of programming languages. In particular they identify composability,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Aim Of Haskell

2006-12-15 Thread Neil Bartlett
I think this hits the nail on the head. To be blunt, the presence of so many academics and scientists in the Haskell community is intimidating to those of us that work in industry. Our brains are, after all, not as highly trained as yours, and we care about different things than you do. Now I

[Haskell-cafe] Compatibility between Data.ByteString.Base and Data.ByteString.Lazy

2006-11-29 Thread Neil Bartlett
Hi, Firstly my apologies if this is an outrageously newbie question. I am trying to write a binary protocol parser using Data.ByteString. I have created a module ByteParser containing my parsing utilities, which imports ByteString as: import qualified Data.ByteString as B In my Main module,