Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell versus F#, OCaml, et. al. ...

2008-09-30 Thread Don Stewart
vigalchin: Hello, Frank mode on ... ;^) In terms of functionality, where is Haskell superior vs inferior to ML, Caml, OCaml, F#, Erlang, etc.? E.g. in terms of library functionality? Without more information, all we can really do is an overview. There's almost 800

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell versus F#, OCaml, et. al. ...

2008-09-30 Thread Galchin, Vasili
thanks .. ... just trying to get an objective viewpoint and see where the holes are ... Vasili On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 1:46 AM, Don Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: vigalchin: Hello, Frank mode on ... ;^) In terms of functionality, where is Haskell superior vs

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell versus F#, OCaml, et. al. ...

2008-09-30 Thread minh thu
2008/9/30 Galchin, Vasili [EMAIL PROTECTED]: thanks .. ... just trying to get an objective viewpoint and see where the holes are ... [...] On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 1:46 AM, Don Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Without more information, all we can really do is an overview. There's

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell versus F#, OCaml, et. al. ...

2008-09-30 Thread Don Stewart
noteed: Haskell is growing really fast (in community, libraries and tools). But, Vasili, Dons pushes a lot into Arch, so although he gives a correct statement, you shouldn't build your point of view relying only on that part of his answer Just rember the number about the Haskell

RE: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell versus F#, OCaml, et. al. ...

2008-09-30 Thread Mitchell, Neil
Hi, For libraries F# is probably superior to all, as it has libraries for virtually everything, and can interoperate seamlessly with COM and .NET. I doubt there will be any library functionality that can't be found or bought. Thanks Neil -- Hello,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell versus F#, OCaml, et. al. ...

2008-09-30 Thread Don Stewart
neil.mitchell.2: Hi, For libraries F# is probably superior to all, as it has libraries for virtually everything, and can interoperate seamlessly with COM and .NET. I doubt there will be any library functionality that can't be found or bought. Libraries for monad transformers or comonadic

RE: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell versus F#, OCaml, et. al. ...

2008-09-30 Thread Mitchell, Neil
For libraries F# is probably superior to all, as it has libraries for virtually everything, and can interoperate seamlessly with COM and .NET. I doubt there will be any library functionality that can't be found or bought. Libraries for monad transformers I found lots of stuff

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell versus F#, OCaml, et. al. ...

2008-09-30 Thread Galchin, Vasili
ok .. is there a roadmap for Haskell?? Vasili On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 2:41 AM, Don Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: noteed: Haskell is growing really fast (in community, libraries and tools). But, Vasili, Dons pushes a lot into Arch, so although he gives a correct statement, you

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell versus F#, OCaml, et. al. ...

2008-09-30 Thread Don Stewart
vigalchin: ok .. is there a roadmap for Haskell?? for the language? * http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5177116830079185902 for the compiler? * http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Status/Releases for the libraries? * http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_Platform

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell versus F#, OCaml, et. al. ...

2008-09-30 Thread Krasimir Angelov
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Don Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's almost 800 Haskell libraries on hackage.haskell.org (millions of lines of code). On average, 2 new libraries are released each day (though 12 new libs were released in the last 24 hours). That's 700 new libraries a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell versus F#, OCaml, et. al. ...

2008-09-30 Thread Don Stewart
kr.angelov: On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Don Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's almost 800 Haskell libraries on hackage.haskell.org (millions of lines of code). On average, 2 new libraries are released each day (though 12 new libs were released in the last 24 hours). That's 700

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell versus F#, OCaml, et. al. ...

2008-09-30 Thread Don Stewart
dons: kr.angelov: On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Don Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's almost 800 Haskell libraries on hackage.haskell.org (millions of lines of code). On average, 2 new libraries are released each day (though 12 new libs were released in the last 24 hours).

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell versus F#, OCaml, et. al. ...

2008-09-30 Thread Claus Reinke
for the libraries? * http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_Platform You might have mentioned that there is finally a tracker (*) and an approximate .cabal meta-package (for dependencies only). - is the programs are not registered by Cabal issue going to be fixed before platform

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell versus F#, OCaml, et. al. ...

2008-09-30 Thread Don Stewart
claus.reinke: for the libraries? * http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_Platform You might have mentioned that there is finally a tracker (*) and an approximate .cabal meta-package (for dependencies only). - is the programs are not registered by Cabal issue going to be fixed

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell versus F#, OCaml, et. al. ...

2008-09-30 Thread Claus Reinke
- is the programs are not registered by Cabal issue going to be fixed before platform release? No. Not the right thing for cabal the package system to do. Huh? Having tool availability out in the open, as updateable packages, would be more flexible than the current built-in stuff in

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell versus F#, OCaml, et. al. ...

2008-09-30 Thread Manlio Perillo
Galchin, Vasili ha scritto: Hello, Frank mode on ... ;^) In terms of functionality, where is Haskell superior vs inferior to ML, Caml, OCaml, F#, Erlang, etc.? E.g. in terms of library functionality? The advantage of F# is that you get all the .NET framework (but this leaves me

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell versus F#, OCaml, et. al. ...

2008-09-30 Thread Jim Burton
Don Stewart-2 wrote: [...] Haskell was in the nice position of already having such a process underway, http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_Platform Hi Don, I'm curious -- what do the images on that page represent? Can you link to readable versions? Thanks, Jim Enjoy!

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell versus F#, OCaml, et. al. ...

2008-09-30 Thread Hans van Thiel
On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 01:55 -0700, Don Stewart wrote: dons: kr.angelov: On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Don Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's almost 800 Haskell libraries on hackage.haskell.org (millions of lines of code). On average, 2 new libraries are released each day

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell versus F#, OCaml, et. al. ...

2008-09-30 Thread Jon Harrop
On Tuesday 30 September 2008 08:40:51 Mitchell, Neil wrote: Hi, For libraries F# is probably superior to all, as it has libraries for virtually everything, and can interoperate seamlessly with COM and .NET. I doubt there will be any library functionality that can't be found or bought.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell versus F#, OCaml, et. al. ...

2008-09-30 Thread Jon Harrop
On Tuesday 30 September 2008 11:53:02 Manlio Perillo wrote: Galchin, Vasili ha scritto: Hello, Frank mode on ... ;^) In terms of functionality, where is Haskell superior vs inferior to ML, Caml, OCaml, F#, Erlang, etc.? E.g. in terms of library functionality? The advantage of

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell versus F#, OCaml, et. al. ...

2008-09-30 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On 2008 Sep 30, at 10:25, John Goerzen wrote: Galchin, Vasili wrote: Frank mode on ... ;^) In terms of functionality, where is Haskell superior vs inferior to ML, Caml, OCaml, F#, Erlang, etc.? E.g. in terms of library functionality? * Two list-like types. Standard list was strict,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell versus F#, OCaml, et. al. ...

2008-09-30 Thread Galchin, Vasili
side tangent ... I wrote a posix real-time package and it sits now in System 1) I'm sure it can be improved I purposely tried to keep the API close to the Posix real-time API; however, I am open to suggestions about the implementation itself and also the API 2) I am looking at changing the