Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: How did you stumble on Haskell?

2007-02-07 Thread Mikael Johansson
On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Jesse Tov wrote: Mikael Johansson wrote: I read sigfpe and got interested. I read sigsegv and got interested :) That's also a blogger writing about Haskell? Or am I missing a joke here? Jesse -- Mikael Johansson | To see the world in a grain of

[Haskell-cafe] Re: How did you stumble on Haskell?

2007-02-06 Thread Jesse Tov
Mikael Johansson wrote: I read sigfpe and got interested. I read sigsegv and got interested :) Jesse ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: How did you stumble on Haskell?

2007-02-06 Thread Dan Piponi
I've always found recursive solutions to problems elegant and I've always been fed up of people telling me that I should rewrite recursive solutions iteratively. (Annoying as it is, many people do that.) I complained about this on K5 and solicited some opinions from others on whether or not they

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: How did you stumble on Haskell?

2007-02-06 Thread Andrew Wagner
Heh. I still remember in my first Comp Sci class, in C, I had to take a 2-line recursive tree traversal...and write it iteratively (in like 50 lines). On 2/6/07, Dan Piponi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've always found recursive solutions to problems elegant and I've always been fed up of people

[Haskell-cafe] Re: How did you stumble on Haskell?

2007-02-03 Thread Jón Fairbairn
Lennart Augustsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Jan 29, 2007, at 03:01 , Alexy Khrabrov wrote: How do people stumble on Haskell? Well, I didn't really stumble on it. I was at the 1987 meeting when we decided to define Haskell. But I stumbled on functional programming in the first

[Haskell-cafe] Re: How did you stumble on Haskell?

2007-02-03 Thread Jón Fairbairn
Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd read Eric Raymond's piece about being a hacker, where he said to learn Lisp for the side effects. Much better to learn Haskell for the side effects! ;-) -- Jón Fairbairn [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Haskell-cafe] Re: How did you stumble on Haskell?

2007-01-30 Thread John Goerzen
On 2007-01-29, Alexy Khrabrov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do people stumble on Haskell? I've taught ML at UPenn, and many Fascinating thread. Awhile back, I decided that, once I got familiar and comfortable with a programming language, I would learn a new one. I tend a learn a new language

[Haskell-cafe] Re: How did you stumble on Haskell?

2007-01-29 Thread Chung-chieh Shan
Bob Davison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in article [EMAIL PROTECTED] in gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe: This leads me off thread to ask if anyone could recommend reading for someone who has done mathematics to college level, but nearly 30 years ago when many English schools didn't cover 20th