[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Weekly News: Issue 155 - October 20, 2010

2010-10-22 Thread Peter Hercek
On 10/22/2010 09:37 AM, wren ng thornton wrote: On 10/21/10 5:38 AM, Ketil Malde wrote: I'm always getting two copies of everything in haskell@, since everything is cross-posted to -cafe. Are there actually people subscribed to -cafe, but *not* to hask...@? And if so, why? I am. In part

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Weekly News: Issue 155 - October 20, 2010

2010-10-22 Thread Ketil Malde
Peter Hercek pher...@gmail.com writes: I am. In part because I don't want to get two copies of everything, but in part because I'm lazy. This is my case too. As for as the amount of messages, who cares. Right. So the question is, what is (or should be) the contents of the messages that are

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Weekly News: Issue 153 - October 06, 2010

2010-10-06 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Hopefully Joe can upload the Html version to http://sequence.complete.org/hwn later today. If that is not the case, maybe someone with upload powers can lend me a hand. Daniel ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Weekly News: Issue 140 - November 22, 2009

2009-11-24 Thread Sean Leather
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 05:46, Richard O'Keefe wrote: For example, ai in Maori means to copulate, Really [1]? It's amazing what Google [2] will tell you these days. ;) [1] http://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/handle/2292/343 [2] http://www.google.com/search?q=ai+maori Regards, Sean

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Weekly News: Issue 140 - November 22, 2009

2009-11-24 Thread Maurí­cio CA
Incidentally, I've always wondered about the politically correct way of referring to this programming language (and related implementation in the above-mentioned type system) in academic circles; Is this a question of politically correctness? Since there's no discrimination or prejudice

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Weekly News: Issue 140 - November 22, 2009

2009-11-24 Thread Richard O'Keefe
On Nov 24, 2009, at 10:29 PM, Sean Leather wrote: On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 05:46, Richard O'Keefe wrote: For example, ai in Maori means to copulate, Really [1]? It's amazing what Google [2] will tell you these days. ;) Really! Check http://www.maoridictionary.co.nz/ In fact if you read

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Weekly News: Issue 140 - November 22, 2009

2009-11-23 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:14:29 -0800 (PST), jfred...@gmail.com wrote: Typef*ck: Brainf*ck in the type system. Johnny Morrice [23]showed us his implementation of everyone's favorite profane programming language... in the type system. Incidentally, I've always wondered about the politically

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Weekly News: Issue 140 - November 22, 2009

2009-11-23 Thread Joe Fredette
I censored it because I intend the HWN to be a PG rated article. I figure -- while I am not under any delusion that kids these days have mouths fouler than mine, which is a feat for sure -- that some young programmer with strict speaking morals may stumble upon the HWN and say, Hey self!

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Weekly News: Issue 140 - November 22, 2009

2009-11-23 Thread Conor McBride
Hi Benjamin On 24 Nov 2009, at 02:35, Benjamin L.Russell wrote: On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:14:29 -0800 (PST), jfred...@gmail.com wrote: Typef*ck: Brainf*ck in the type system. Johnny Morrice [23]showed us his implementation of everyone's favorite profane programming language... in the type

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Weekly News: Issue 140 - November 22, 2009

2009-11-23 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:50:22 -0500, Joe Fredette jfred...@gmail.com wrote: I guess my view is that such a paper with an unintentionally foul- mouthed name -- like Brainf*ck -- ought not be the reason for which your paper is rejected from a journal or other publication source, but rather it

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Weekly News: Issue 140 - November 22, 2009

2009-11-23 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:58:30 +, Conor McBride co...@strictlypositive.org wrote: Hi Benjamin On 24 Nov 2009, at 02:35, Benjamin L.Russell wrote: On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:14:29 -0800 (PST), jfred...@gmail.com wrote: Typef*ck: Brainf*ck in the type system. Johnny Morrice [23]showed us his

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Weekly News: Issue 140 - November 22, 2009

2009-11-23 Thread Richard O'Keefe
I should point out that what seems like a rude name in one language may be a perfectly proper word in another. For example, ai in Maori means to copulate, and yet we have things like the AI Journal. Naughty naughty. F*ck is a perfectly good German name, I believe, and you will find that name

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Weekly News: Issue 137 - October 31, 2009

2009-11-02 Thread Max Rabkin
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 6:42 AM, Benjamin L.Russell dekudekup...@yahoo.com wrote: Hey, careful now No need to start another Emacs vs. the other 'editor' flamewar ... lest someone run M-x nethack and summon a Demogorgon against you ... er, make that M-x haskellhack, since a Haskell version

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Weekly News: Issue 137 - October 31, 2009

2009-11-02 Thread Joe Fredette
It's not my fault you emacs-y people chose the wrong editor... :) /Joe On Nov 1, 2009, at 11:42 PM, Benjamin L.Russell wrote: On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:38:25 -0700 (PDT), jfred...@gmail.com wrote: ... a new version of haskell-mode for the lesser of two editors

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Weekly News: Issue 137 - October 31, 2009

2009-11-02 Thread Andrew Coppin
Benjamin L.Russell wrote: Hey, careful now No need to start another Emacs vs. the other 'editor' flamewar ... lest someone run M-x nethack and summon a Demogorgon against you ... er, make that M-x haskellhack, since a Haskell version needs to be created. ;-) Yes, because nobody truly

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Weekly News: Issue 137 - October 31, 2009

2009-11-01 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:38:25 -0700 (PDT), jfred...@gmail.com wrote: ... a new version of haskell-mode for the lesser of two editors ^^ [...] haskell-mode 2.5. Svein Ove Aas [14]announced a new version of haskell-mode for that other 'editor'...

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Weekly News

2009-10-09 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
Thank you for including my quote (by dekudekuplex), and great work so far! Just a couple of minor comments: 1) It might be useful for referencing by subject if you could include the issue number and date in the subject line (e.g., Haskell Weekly News: Issue 131 - September 25, 2009) instead of

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Weekly News

2009-10-09 Thread Joe Fredette
Mostly it's been issues with sendmail, I think I have them fixed for this week. (I think...) Thanks for the input! /Joe On Oct 9, 2009, at 4:46 AM, Benjamin L.Russell wrote: Thank you for including my quote (by dekudekuplex), and great work so far! Just a couple of minor comments: 1) It

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Weekly News

2009-10-09 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 05:46:15PM +0900, Benjamin L.Russell wrote: 2) Instead of posting separately to the Haskell and Haskell-Cafe mailing lists, it might be better to cross-post, since that way, readers using newsreaders can have the cross-posted article automatically marked read in the

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Weekly News: Issue 131 - Semptember 25, 2009

2009-09-29 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 09:18:01 -0700 (PDT), Joe Fredette jfred...@gmail.com wrote: * ksf: (But if (on the other hand)) (I think only a number in general (whether it be five or a hundred)) (this thought is rather the representation of a method (whereby a multiplicity (for instance

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Weekly News: Issue 107 - February 28, 2009

2009-02-28 Thread Achim Schneider
Brent Yorgey byor...@seas.upenn.edu wrote: lilac: haskell's learning curve is like this: | That's an understatement. cf http://www.eve-pirate.com/uploads/LearningCurve.jpg -- (c) this sig last receiving data processing entity. Inspect headers for copyright history. All rights reserved.

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Weekly News: Issue 93 - November 15, 2008

2008-11-16 Thread Neal Alexander
Brent Yorgey wrote: --- ANN: OpenGL with extra type safety. Neal Alexander Hopefully the code will be uploaded to Hackage as a separate package soon. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/OGL-0.0.0

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Weekly News: Issue 85 - September 13, 2008

2008-09-17 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
On Sat, 13 Sep 2008 21:06:21 -0700, Daryoush Mehrtash [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a newbie question Does theorem proofs have a use for an application? Take for example the IRC bot example ( http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Roll_your_own_IRC_bot) listed below. Is there any insight to

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Weekly News: Issue 85 - September 13, 2008

2008-09-15 Thread Stefan Monnier
A more difficult question is: how do I know that the formal specification I've written for my program is the right one? Tools can fairly easily check that your programs conform to a given specification, but they cannot (to my knowledge) check that your specification says exactly what you

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Weekly News: Issue 85 - September 13, 2008

2008-09-15 Thread Robin Green
On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:32:44 -0400 Stefan Monnier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A more difficult question is: how do I know that the formal specification I've written for my program is the right one? Tools can fairly easily check that your programs conform to a given specification, but they

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Weekly News: January 02, 2007

2007-01-28 Thread Björn Buckwalter
Henning Thielemann lemming at henning-thielemann.de writes: On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote: Dimensional: Statically checked physical dimensions. Björn Buckwalter [4]announced version 0.1 of [5]Dimensional, a module for statically checked physical dimensions. The