Doug Kirk wrote:
No offense to the darcs creators, but
1) Only current Haskellers use it; everyone else either uses
Subversion or is migrating to it;
If that is true, then they have missed the point. DVC is a real win for
most workflows.
The applicable alternatives to darcs are : bzr,
On 29/05/07, 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
Subversion or is migrating to it;
If that is true, then they have missed the point. DVC is a real win for
most workflows.
Jules Bean wrote:
No offense to the darcs creators, but
1) Only current Haskellers use it; everyone else either uses
Subversion or is migrating to it;
If that is true, then they have missed the point. DVC is a real win for
most workflows.
We are indeed using darcs, so this discussion is a
OTOH, I work for companies, and they really value their assets,
especially software assets. So they *want* centralized stuff, so they
can ensure they have consistent backups (in the U.S.A. there is a lot
of regulation under Sarbanes-Oxley that requires this stuff). Right
now we're using
On 5/29/07, Doug Kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OTOH, I work for companies, and they really value their assets,
especially software assets. So they *want* centralized stuff, so they
can ensure they have consistent backups (in the U.S.A. there is a lot
of regulation under Sarbanes-Oxley that
Hello Doug,
Friday, May 25, 2007, 9:30:15 PM, you wrote:
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.
full-time person! i want to have such hard job :)))
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At Fri, 25 May 2007 12:23:24 -0500, Doug Kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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 use
Subversion instead of darcs.
No offense to the darcs creators, but
1) Only
On 26/05/07, Matthew Sackman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(On the other hand, I don't know of anyone outside immediate
haskellers using Darcs.)
A lot of people in the Emacs subcommunity use darcs; many of them may
have heard of Haskell but certainly wouldn't describe themselves as
Haskellers. See
On Fri, 25 May 2007, Doug Kirk wrote:
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
On Fri, 25 May 2007, Neil Mitchell wrote:
http://darcs.haskell.org/darcsweb/darcsweb.cgi?r=yhc;a=summary - most
things on haskell.org have a darcsweb, thats the one for Yhc.
Nice, I have not seen this before. Not all of my packages at
darcs.haskell.org are listed. How can I add more of them?
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 20:37:12 +0100, Andrew Coppin wrote:
Magnus Therning wrote:
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 15:22:05 -0700, Scott Cruzen wrote:
* Dan Weston [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070523 12:41]:
What power animal have you chosen for the cover of your O'Reilly
book? Alas, most of the good
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
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
3) I can browse a Subversion repository with a web browser instead of
having to download code from the repository from the command line (of
course command line is still available). Sometimes viewing a version
of a code sample online is all that is needed to answer a question,
and in that case
On Fri, 25 May 2007 19:39:19 +0100
Neil Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://darcs.haskell.org/darcsweb/darcsweb.cgi?r=yhc;a=summary - most
things on haskell.org have a darcsweb, thats the one for Yhc.
Plus I suspect that darcs will be discussed in the book, for building
a library, in
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 10:48:38PM -0700, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
Number two on my wish list: interfacing with Java.
The temptation to cover new and exciting material is of course strong.
LambdaVM is both, but it's also an in-progress one-person master's
project. We think we'd do best to
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 15:22:05 -0700, Scott Cruzen wrote:
* Dan Weston [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070523 12:41]:
What power animal have you chosen for the cover of your O'Reilly
book? Alas, most of the good ones are gone already!
I'd like to suggest the Mantis shrimp because they have excellent
bos:
I'll condense my remaining replies to this thread into a single message,
to save people a little noise.
I'd just add that the response is literally overwhelming! Some 100-odd
volunteers to review, and a lot of mail besides.
Please bear with us as we try to surface under this mountain of
Magnus Therning wrote:
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 15:22:05 -0700, Scott Cruzen wrote:
* Dan Weston [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070523 12:41]:
What power animal have you chosen for the cover of your O'Reilly
book? Alas, most of the good ones are gone already!
I'd like to suggest the
G'day all.
Quoting Donald Bruce Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I'd just add that the response is literally overwhelming!
As opposed to figuratively overwhelming?
I'm certain this book will have a very good editor at O'Reilly!
Cheers,
Andrew Bromage
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On Wednesday 23 May 2007 19:01, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
Bryan O'Sullivan, Don Stewart and John Goerzen are pleased, and frankly,
very excited to announce that were developing a new book for O'Reilly, on
practical Haskell programming. The working title is Real-World Haskell.
That's good
On Wed, 23 May 2007 10:07:29 +0200
Gour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Congratualtions for your effort?
Oops...it should be !
Sincerely,
Gour
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On 23/05/07, Donald Bruce Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bryan O'Sullivan, Don Stewart and John Goerzen are pleased, and frankly,
very excited to announce that were developing a new book for O'Reilly, on
practical Haskell programming. The working title is Real-World Haskell.
That is
On 5/23/07, Donald Bruce Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bryan O'Sullivan, Don Stewart and John Goerzen are pleased, and frankly,
very excited to announce that were developing a new book for O'Reilly, on
practical Haskell programming. The working title is Real-World Haskell.
That is simply
On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 17:01 +1000, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
Bryan O'Sullivan, Don Stewart and John Goerzen are pleased, and frankly,
very excited to announce that were developing a new book for O'Reilly, on
practical Haskell programming. The working title is Real-World Haskell.
The plan
The plan is to cover the major techniques used to write serious,
real-world Haskell code, so that programmers can just get to work in the
language.
Amen to that! Too many people seem to think Hasekll is some sort of
pretend language that is only useful for defining quicksort and other
What power animal have you chosen for the cover of your O'Reilly book?
Alas, most of the good ones are gone already!
Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
Bryan O'Sullivan, Don Stewart and John Goerzen are pleased, and frankly,
very excited to announce that were developing a new book for O'Reilly, on
I really hope they choose the flying squirrel.
On 5/23/07, Dan Weston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What power animal have you chosen for the cover of your O'Reilly book?
Alas, most of the good ones are gone already!
Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
Bryan O'Sullivan, Don Stewart and John Goerzen are
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 12:40:58PM -0700, Dan Weston wrote:
What power animal have you chosen for the cover of your O'Reilly book? Alas,
most of the good ones are gone already!
lamb-da?
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That's pretty baa-aa-aad.
Mike
brad clawsie wrote:
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 12:40:58PM -0700, Dan Weston wrote:
What power animal have you chosen for the cover of your O'Reilly book? Alas,
most of the good ones are gone already!
lamb-da?
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On 5/23/07, Tom Harper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I really hope they choose the flying squirrel.
They should just use that picture of Philip Wadler as Lambda-Man.
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* Dan Weston [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070523 12:41]:
What power animal have you chosen for the cover of your O'Reilly book? Alas,
most of the good ones are gone already!
I'd like to suggest the Mantis shrimp because they have excellent
vision, they're long lived and they pack a punch.
I haven't
Dougal Stanton wrote:
That is fantastic news to hear. I realise this may be jumping the gun
a bit but could you say anything about predicted timelines?
Not just yet, but it will be a much faster process with three seasoned
verbmonkeys at work than if we had just one.
Are you
starting from
I'll condense my remaining replies to this thread into a single message,
to save people a little noise.
Henning Thielemann:
I guess there will also be some lines about how to write
efficient code by using ByteString et. al.?
You bet!
What about a public darcs repository where people can
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