[Haskell-cafe] Performance problems with parallelizing QuickCheck using channels (Control.Concurrent.Chan)

2007-11-15 Thread Gwern Branwen
So I've been trying to get my QuickCheck tests to run in parallel. I did take a look at Don's Parallel QuickCheck library http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/pqc.html, but I didn't like how much code it had in it and I figured it'd be a good exercise to try to do myself. After quite a lot of help

[Haskell-cafe] Performance problems with parallelizing QuickCheck using channels (Control.Concurrent.Chan)

2007-11-18 Thread Gwern Branwen
(My previous email showed up as mangled in http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2007-November/034717.html; I think the PGP signature was the problem; I removed it and sent it again, but it was put into moderation for size, and hasn't been released yet - so I'm sending this a third time

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Tetris

2007-11-20 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Nov 20, 2007 10:41 AM, nick ralabate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Speaking of Tetris and Space Invaders, you might be interested in this project: http://www.geocities.jp/takascience/haskell/monadius_en.html It's a clone of Gradius written in Haskell. -Nick It's a fun enough game under

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Tetris

2007-11-20 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Nov 20, 2007 4:14 PM, Radosław Grzanka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2007/11/20, Gwern Branwen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Nov 20, 2007 10:41 AM, nick ralabate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Speaking of Tetris and Space Invaders, you might be interested in this project: http://www.geocities.jp

[Haskell-cafe] Software Tools in Haskell

2007-12-11 Thread Gwern Branwen
On 2007.12.10 13:52:41 -0600, Tommy McGuire [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled 1.7K characters: In the if anyone is interested,... department For reasons that remain unclear, early this fall I started translating Brian W. Kernighan and P.J. Plaugher's classic _Software Tools in Pascal_ into

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: Salvia-1.0.0

2010-03-23 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 9:27 AM, Bas van Dijk v.dijk@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Sebastiaan Visser sfvis...@cs.uu.nl wrote: Nice! This is certainly worth it. I'm glad you like it. Sebastiaan, I made the same mistake as threadmanager does: I forgot to block before

Re: [Haskell-cafe] [OT?] Haskell-inspired functions for BASH

2010-04-01 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Jeremy Shaw jer...@n-heptane.com wrote: fps is what we now call bytestring. Alas, hsplugins is dead. hsplugins is useful, but needs to be rewritten for modern GHC :( - jeremy I never looked into hsplugins too carefully. Did it offer anything that Hint doesn't

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage accounts and real names

2010-04-05 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 5:28 PM, David House dmho...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, An issue came up on #haskell recently with Hackage accounts requiring real names. The person in question (who didn't send this email as he's wishing to remain anonymous) applied for a Hackage account and was turned

Re: [Haskell-cafe] [OT?] Haskell-inspired functions for BASH

2010-04-06 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Stephen Tetley stephen.tet...@gmail.com wrote: On 6 April 2010 15:09, Mario Blažević mblaze...@stilo.com wrote:        A question of my own: is there any written design (an academic paper would be perfect) of a functional shell language? Olin Shivers has

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Simple game: a monad for each player

2010-04-08 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Yves Parès limestr...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Cafe, I have a question about program design. Let's say I have a simple sequential game (a TicTacToe for instance, but with more than 2 players). I have a Player datatype which is like: data Player m = Player {  

Re: [Haskell-cafe] What is the consensus about -fwarn-unused-do-bind ?

2010-04-09 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Neil Brown nc...@kent.ac.uk wrote: Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote: As of 6.12.1, the new -fwarn-unused-do-bind warning is activated with -Wall.  This is based off a bug report by Neil Mitchell: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3263 . However, does it

Re: [Haskell-cafe] problem with cabal on snow leopard

2010-04-17 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Carter Schonwald carter.schonw...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, I can't seem to find it documented anywhere as to the default directories that cabal puts its information in  (its certainly not in ~/.cabal ),  as I'm finding that even when I try to do a reinstall

Re: [Haskell-cafe] The instability of Haskell libraries

2010-04-23 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com wrote: Keith Sheppard keiths...@gmail.com writes: Set up a server to poll the Source-Repository head of every hackage package that includes one in it's cabal file, then rerun the build any time a change is

[Haskell-cafe] Downloading Haskell repos from GitHub

2010-04-30 Thread Gwern Branwen
Along the lines of http://blog.patch-tag.com/2010/03/13/mirroring-patch-tag/ for downloading all patch-tag.com repositories, I've begun to wonder how to download all Github repositories since more and more people seem to be using it. Nothing in http://develop.github.com/ seems especially useful

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Downloading Haskell repos from GitHub

2010-04-30 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Jesper Louis Andersen jesper.louis.ander...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Gwern Branwen gwe...@gmail.com wrote: Nothing in http://develop.github.com/ seems especially useful for grabbing the git:// URLs of all repos by language - just

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Typing Haskell in Haskell

2010-05-01 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Aaron Gray aaronngray.li...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, I am relatively new to Haskell. I am attempting to get Typing Haskell in Haskell to work on HUGS or GHC.    http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~mpj/thih/ I am getting an error on loading SourcePrelude :-    Hugs :l

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell and scripting

2010-05-03 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Kyle Murphy orc...@gmail.com wrote: That's also the approach Yi uses. I'm fairly certain there's a library on hackage that makes writing up programs in that style fairly trivial, http://hackage.haskell.org/package/dyre -- gwern

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell and scripting

2010-05-05 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Limestraël limestr...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, the xmonad approach is very neat, but I see 2 major (IMO) drawbacks to it: 1) The end-user has to have GHC, and all the necessary libraries to compile the configuration 2) A scripting language should be simple and

Re: [Haskell-cafe] How efficient is read?

2010-05-10 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Tom Hawkins tomahawk...@gmail.com wrote: In fact, if you just want Read-like functionality for a set of Haskell datatypes, use polyparse: the DrIFT tool can derive polyparse's Text.Parse class (the equivalent of Read) for you, so you do not even need to write

Re: [Haskell-cafe] How efficient is read?

2010-05-11 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 12:16 AM, Tom Hawkins tomahawk...@gmail.com wrote: The tarball was missing its Rules.hs; as it happens, GHC has a module named Rules.hs as well, hence the confusing error. I've uploaded a fresh one that should work. Thanks.  This builds and installs fine. But I

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Language Shootout reverse-complement benchmark

2010-06-01 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 10:25 AM, David Leimbach leim...@gmail.com wrote: I'm still trying to figure out what the point of the shootout really is.  If there's no dedicated folks working with a language there, trying to make things run faster, a language will come out looking inefficient

Re: [Haskell-cafe] HaskellWiki and Wikipedia

2010-06-19 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Mike Dillon m...@embody.org wrote: Actually, it looks like MediaWiki:Newarticletext probably needs to be edited as well since that's what you see when you click through a red link. The others are for the top text after a search using Go and Search respectively.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: The site has been exploited (again)

2010-07-12 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Mike Dillon m...@embody.org wrote: begin Mike Dillon quotation: Being that there is only one active admin on the Haskell.org wiki (User:Ashley Y), I believe the fact that this page is editable by any user is a policy decision to allow the community to

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage being too strict?

2008-04-15 Thread Gwern Branwen
On 2008.04.15 22:15:29 -0500, John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled 0.7K characters: When I went to make my upload of MissingH 1.0.1, Hackage rejected it, saying: Instead of 'ghc-options: -XPatternSignatures' use 'extensions: PatternSignatures' It hadn't rejected MissingH 1.0.0, even

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Announce: bytestring 0.9.1.0

2008-04-20 Thread Gwern Branwen
On 2008.04.20 15:09:33 -0700, Don Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled 1.7K characters: Hey all, I'm pleased to announce a new major release of bytestring, the efficient string library for Haskell, suitable for high-performance scenarios. This release is primarily an (incremental)

[Haskell-cafe] Cabalizing darcs

2008-04-23 Thread Gwern Branwen
So recently I spent a bit of time working on a cabalization of Darcs. It works well for me, and is reasonably easy to apply (attached are three files; do a 'darcs get --lazy http://darcs.net' with Darcs-2 to get the latest, and copy the files into it, the usual autoconf, and it should then work

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabalizing darcs

2008-04-23 Thread Gwern Branwen
On 2008.04.23 12:26:35 -0700, Philip Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled 1.2K characters: It looks quite clean (no funny business in Setup.lhs). I would favor using this cabalized version over the other. Thanks! So, autoconf/configure generate cryptol.buildinfo from cryptol.buildinfo.in.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: Haddock version 2.1.0

2008-05-01 Thread Gwern Branwen
On 2008.05.01 15:42:19 +0200, David Waern [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled 0.5K characters: Hi everyone, I'm pleased to announce Haddock 2.1.0. Hackage page: http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/haddock-2.1.0 Changes since last version: * Fix a bug that made links

Re: [Haskell-cafe] [ANN] Twitter Client

2008-05-09 Thread Gwern Branwen
On 2008.05.09 16:23:03 +0200, Chris Eidhof [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled 0.6K characters: Hey everyone, I was tired of all those graphical Twitter clients that aren't usable from my Terminal, so I wrote my own. It's still very much alpha, but comments or improvements are more than welcome. You

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Old editions of The Monad.Reader lost

2008-05-09 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 9:27 AM, Wouter Swierstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 18 Aug 2007, at 20:10, Henk-Jan van Tuyl wrote: Now that all hawiki pages have been removed, we have lost some valuable information. For example The Monad.Reader; on

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Old editions of The Monad.Reader lost

2008-05-10 Thread Gwern Branwen
On 2008.05.10 12:17:45 +0100, Wouter Swierstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled 0.4K characters: Almost all? Is that why some are missing? eg. http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/The_Monad.Reader/Issue2 omits Impure Thoughts 1 - Thtatic Compilathionth (without a lisp)

[Haskell-cafe] ANN: xmonad-utils 0.1

2008-05-11 Thread Gwern Branwen
Just dropping in a quick note: I've uploaded to Hackage the 0.1 release of xmonad-utils here: http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/xmonad-utils. There is of course a Darcs repo available as well: http://gorgias.mine.nu/repos/xmonad-utils. What is xmonad-utils? It's a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] HSFFIG compilation problem

2008-05-13 Thread Gwern Branwen
On 2008.05.13 23:31:17 +0200, Harri Kiiskinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled 1.1K characters: Hello, I've tried to compile hsffig-1.0pl2, unsuccesfully, also from the unstable darcs repo. I'm using ghc-6.8 (ghc6-6.8.2 from Debian unstable). HSFFIG comes with its own version of Cabal, but I

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Calling haddock in a portable way

2008-05-17 Thread Gwern Branwen
On 2008.05.17 21:54:53 +0200, Misha Aizatulin [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled 0.2K characters: hello, the new version of haddock (2.0.0) needs a new option -B that tells it the GHC lib directory. How do I find out the correct value for this option in a makefile, so that the makefile stays

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Starting Haskell with a web application

2008-05-18 Thread Gwern Branwen
On 2008.05.16 17:51:33 +0200, Immanuel Normann [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled 3.1K characters: Where can I find the sources of the latest WASH? I couldn't find them in HackageDB (and neither with Google). -- Immanuel Normann Did you find its homepage at

Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal Setup.hs configure - cabal doesnt produce a setup-config

2008-05-18 Thread Gwern Branwen
On 2008.05.19 06:53:22 +1000, geoffrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled 1.8K characters: Hi, I am trying to install nanocurses, but cabal isn't creating the setup-config file in dist/ I have run (and re-run) runghc Setup.hs configure The first time it complained about mpg123

Re: [Haskell-cafe] hmp3 compilation problem

2008-05-19 Thread Gwern Branwen
On 2008.05.09 08:52:37 +0930, Levi Stephen [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled 1.3K characters: Hi, I am trying to compile hmp3. I have the version from darcs at http://code.haskell.org/~dons/code/hmp3 I am getting the following errors: Tree.hs:190:14: No instance for (Binary FilePathP)

Re: [Haskell-cafe] is there some book about haskell and data struct and alg?

2008-05-30 Thread Gwern Branwen
On 2008.05.28 20:11:54 -0700, Benjamin L. Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled 2.5K characters: Although all the source code for the pdf version (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/theses/okasaki.pdf) of Purely Functional Data Structures is provided in Standard ML, not Haskell, I found a broken link

Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal-install failure

2008-06-13 Thread Gwern Branwen
On 2008.06.13 22:22:06 +0100, Duncan Coutts [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled 2.1K characters: On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 11:19 -0400, Darrin Thompson wrote: Cabal-install is looking good. It now, for the record, has only two deps outside of Cabal-1.4. I installed cabal-install-0.5 on ubuntu with

Re: [Haskell-cafe] cgi liftM liftIO

2008-06-14 Thread Gwern Branwen
On 2008.06.14 08:05:48 +0200, Adrian Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled 4.0K characters: I think you need to put liftIO in front of the IO actions you want to do inside the CGI Monad. Like in this example http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/ Practical_web_programming_in_Haskell#File_uploads

[Haskell-cafe] ANN: Mueval 0.21

2008-06-14 Thread Gwern Branwen
Hiya everyone. I'd like to announce the release of a little CLI program I whipped up. It's called mueval http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/mueval. WHAT: Mueval grew out of my discontent with Lambdabot: it's really neat to be able to run expressions like this: 07:53

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Lindenmayer Systems, WAS: (no subject)

2008-06-15 Thread Gwern Branwen
On 2008.06.15 16:50:28 +0200, Adrian Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled 6.9K characters: I screwed up the email, sorry about that. What I wanted to say was: Hello, as homework I was assigned to design and draw an image using the SOE Graphics library [1]. In order to impress my classmates I

[Haskell-cafe] ANN: Mueval 0.3

2008-06-18 Thread Gwern Branwen
Hiya everyone. So I've uploaded Mueval 0.3 (release early, release often) http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/mueval-0.3. What's new? Well, I changed the printing output to be cleaner, and I made printing the inferred type optional (through a --print-type flag). In

Re: [Haskell-cafe] message passing style like in Haskell?

2008-06-19 Thread Gwern Branwen
On 2008.06.19 11:33:56 +0800, jinjing [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled 0.5K characters: Hi guys, This is my second attempt to learn Haskell :) Any way here's the code: module Dot where import Prelude hiding ( (.) ) (.) :: a - (a - b) - b a . f = f a infixl 9 . So for example, 99

Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal-install failure

2008-06-19 Thread Gwern Branwen
On 2008.06.14 08:56:34 +0100, Duncan Coutts [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled 1.3K characters: On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 22:10 -0400, Gwern Branwen wrote: I think this may be Cabal's fault anyway. The yi.cabal includes the line: build-tools: alex = 2.0.1 3 in the 'executable yi

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Checking packages before upload to Hackage

2008-06-20 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Henning Thielemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there some command which tests a tar.gz created by 'Setup.lhs sdist' by unpacking the archive to say /tmp and compiling and documenting the sources? Hackage should recommend this tool before package upload. There

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ghc-HEAD: build succeeds, but install fails with linker errors?

2008-06-26 Thread Gwern Branwen
On 2008.06.26 03:00:27 -0400, Reid Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled 1.4K characters: I'm trying to install GHC from the darcs repository for the first time, so I'm hoping someone here can tell me if I'm doing something wrong before I bother cvs-ghc. I'm currently running ghc 6.8.2 on

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Human-friendly compiler errors for GHC

2008-07-13 Thread Gwern Branwen
On 2008.07.13 14:36:03 +0100, Max Bolingbroke [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled 2.8K characters: ... Well, noone has actually said they think fuzzy matching would be useful yet, so I suspect this patch is dead on the vine :). I've filed a ticket with the code anyway

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Can't get Haddock 2.0 anchor reference to work

2008-07-15 Thread Gwern Branwen
On 2008.07.15 13:59:32 -0700, Mike Gunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled 0.2K characters: How are anchor references in Haddock supposed to work? When I use Dir.Mod#foo, the resulting HTML contains: A HREF=Dir-Mod#foo.html instead of the more desirable: A HREF=Dir-Mod.html#foo User

Re: [Haskell-cafe] New TMR editor

2009-10-01 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Joe Fredette jfred...@gmail.com wrote: Ah-- so _that's_ why you stopped doing HWN. Moving on to Greener Pastures... At least, less-frequently-released pastures! -- gwern ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list

Re: [Haskell-cafe] I/O Haskell question

2009-10-05 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Maria Boghiu maria.bog...@gmail.com wrote: Hey. I'm trying to configure Xmonad, the window manager. for this purpose, I'm trying to read the workspaces variable in the code below from file. As you can see, I do workspaces = readWS where readWS = do l -

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Some thoughts about Hackage

2009-11-14 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Stephen Tetley stephen.tet...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/11/14 Felipe Lessa felipe.le...@gmail.com: Probably adding markers to the comment area every time a new version is added is also a nice idea because a problem in the comment are may be corrected.  The marker

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Collection of sets containing no sets which are a subset of another in the collection

2009-11-14 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 4:35 AM, Max Rabkin max.rab...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Mark Wassell mwass...@bigpond.net.au wrote: Hi, I am looking for a data structure that will represent a collection of sets such that no element in the collection is a subset of another

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Where is a good place to place code like this, so if I may be so bold, people can learn from it?

2009-11-14 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Casey Hawthorne cas...@istar.ca wrote: Where is a good place to place code like this, so if I may be so bold, people can learn from it? The Haskell wiki, I would suggest. If it were shorter and less Haskell-specific, then maybe also Rosetta Code

Re: [Haskell-cafe] who wrote the Relational_Algebra page

2009-11-16 Thread Gwern Branwen
2009/11/16 Günther Schmidt gue.schm...@web.de: on the Haskell wiki? http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Relational_algebra Günther http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/?title=Relational_algebraaction=history ? -- gwern ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list

Re: [Haskell-cafe] who wrote the Relational_Algebra page

2009-11-16 Thread Gwern Branwen
2009/11/16 Günther Schmidt gue.schm...@web.de: Hi Alistair, thanks, do you happen to know his email address? I try to get in touch with him because this particular subject is of great importance to me and he seems to have done quite a lot of research already. Günther Most Haskell wiki

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Typefuck: Brainfuck in the type system

2009-11-16 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Joe Fredette jfred...@gmail.com wrote: Awesome, however, I don't know what the policy is for such -- interesting -- names on Hackage. Normally I believe the response to Should I put it on Hackage is a resounding, immediate Absolutely. In this case, perhaps a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Wiki software?

2009-11-21 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Vladimir Ivanov vladimir.v.iva...@gmail.com wrote: I decided to give orchid a try, but failed to install the latest version (0.0.8) using cabal. The reason is that one of the dependencies (filestore) depends on parsec-2.0.* and orchid requires parsec3. I

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Wiki software?

2009-11-21 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 1:13 PM, John MacFarlane j...@berkeley.edu wrote: +++ Gwern Branwen [Nov 21 09 11:38 ]: On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Vladimir Ivanov vladimir.v.iva...@gmail.com wrote: I decided to give orchid a try, but failed to install the latest version (0.0.8) using cabal

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Wikipedia article

2009-12-03 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Don Stewart d...@galois.com wrote: marlowsd: As noted before, the Wikipedia article for Haskell is a disorganised mess. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell_%28programming_language%29 earlier this year, dons suggested reorganising it and posted a template on

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Wikipedia article

2009-12-05 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 4:53 AM, Deniz Dogan deniz.a.m.do...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/12/4 Simon Marlow marlo...@gmail.com: As noted before, the Wikipedia article for Haskell is a disorganised mess. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell_%28programming_language%29 earlier this year, dons suggested

Re: [Haskell-cafe] What about adding a wiki for each haskell project?

2009-12-11 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 7:00 PM, Marc Weber marco-owe...@gmx.de wrote: hackage is success because: a) many (most) people do use it (by uploading packages) b) it is a comprehensive list of availible packages if not the most    comprehensive one Duncan, can you write about your concerns

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Memory-aware Haskell?

2009-12-25 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 5:14 AM, Svein Ove Aas svein@aas.no wrote: On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 11:38 PM, Roman Cheplyaka r...@ro-che.info wrote: So, let's think what we can do at runtime. Suppose RTS takes the parameter -- upper limit of consumed memory. When it sees that memory consumption is

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ghc -e

2010-01-06 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 7:23 PM, Tony Morris tonymor...@gmail.com wrote: ghc -e import Control.Monad; forM [[1,2,3]] reverse As of 6.10.2, the bug whereby the GHC API lets you use functions from anywhere just by naming them (Java-style) has not been fixed: $ ghc -e Control.Monad.forM [[1,2,3]]

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ghc -e

2010-01-06 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 7:35 PM, Tony Morris tonymor...@gmail.com wrote: Gwern Branwen wrote: On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 7:23 PM, Tony Morris tonymor...@gmail.com wrote: ghc -e import Control.Monad; forM [[1,2,3]] reverse As of 6.10.2, the bug whereby the GHC API lets you use functions from

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Design question, HTML for GUIs?

2010-01-10 Thread Gwern Branwen
2010/1/10 Günther Schmidt gue.schm...@web.de: Hi everyone, as probably most people I find the GUI part of any application to be the hardest part. It just occurred to me that I *could* write my wxHaskell desktop application as a web app too. When the app starts, a haskell web server start

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Compilers

2010-01-16 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 8:02 PM, John Meacham j...@repetae.net wrote: On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 11:41:03PM +0100, Daniel Fischer wrote: Great, nothing I don't already have, so download the source tarball, unpack and ./configure --prefix=$HOME checking for a BSD-compatible install...

Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal install vacuum-cairo

2010-01-17 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Ozgur Akgun ozgurak...@gmail.com wrote: Cafe, I've been trying to install vacuum-cairo using cabal but I couldn't have it installed because of the missing packages cairo, svg and gtkcairo. What should I do to install vacuum-cairo? Thanks for any help in

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Broken registration link on hackage trac

2010-01-18 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Ian Lynagh ig...@earth.li wrote: On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 07:35:31PM +, Andy Gimblett wrote: I want to register an account on hackage's trac instance, but the register an account link on the start page:

Re: [Haskell-cafe] HList darcs repo missing?

2010-01-25 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Jake Wheat jakewheatm...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello all, I was looking for the HList darcs repo at: http://darcs.haskell.org/HList/ but it seems to be missing. Has it been moved somewhere else? Thanks, Jake Wheat It was there as of 15 September 2009

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Failure to load hmatric

2010-02-02 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 1:59 PM, d...@patriot.net wrote: OK, I'm working on matrix stuff in Haskell now (I've been trying to get the professor to approve that) and when I use cabal install to install hmatrix, it fails at HUnit with: --- Configuring HUnit-1.2.2.1... Preprocessing

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Anyone up for Google SoC 2010?

2010-02-02 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Johan Tibell johan.tib...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Neil Mitchell ndmitch...@gmail.com wrote: I'd also be happy to mentor. Where is the official place to collect project ideas? We used trac previously, are we still using it or are we now

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Anyone up for Google SoC 2010?

2010-02-04 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Henk-Jan van Tuyl hjgt...@chello.nl wrote: On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:34:34 +0100, Neil Mitchell ndmitch...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Gwern, Please update: haskell-src-exts - haskell-src **Unknown** This project was an unqualified success.  haskell-src-exts is now one

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Anyone up for Google SoC 2010?

2010-02-05 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 6:20 AM, Sittampalam, Ganesh ganesh.sittampa...@credit-suisse.com wrote: Gwern Branwen wrote: On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Henk-Jan van Tuyl hjgt...@chello.nl wrote: On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:34:34 +0100, Neil Mitchell ndmitch...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Gwern, Please

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Anyone up for Google SoC 2010?

2010-02-05 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Niklas Broberg niklas.brob...@gmail.com wrote: I'm at a loss as to what criteria is actually used to judge success here. It seems to me a bit like the eternal discussion between basic research and applied research. Just because something

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Links to darcs.haskel.org in the haskellwiki

2010-02-08 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Henning Thielemann schlepp...@henning-thielemann.de wrote: Ketil Malde schrieb: Henk-Jan van Tuyl hjgt...@chello.nl writes: There are a lot of links in the haskellwiki that point to projects at darcs.haskel.org; I hope that anyone who moves a project, looks

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell and the Job Market, e.g. with Google

2010-02-11 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Hans van Thiel hthiel.c...@zonnet.nl wrote: Hello, Somewhat in response to the original post about Haskell engineers I, II and III. This confirms the remark that Haskell experience is now being appreciated, though not (yet) used (very much). Steven Grant,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] What happened in Ohloh?

2010-02-19 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Paul Johnson p...@cogito.org.uk wrote: If you go to http://www.ohloh.net/languages/compare?l0=haskellmeasure=projects and look at the number (not percentage) of Haskell projects you see it rise exponentially until the start of 2008 and then suddenly drop away.  

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Function to detect duplicates

2010-02-24 Thread Gwern Branwen
2010/2/23 Jonas Almström Duregård jonas.dureg...@gmail.com: Hi Rafael, I assume you will perform this operation on some very large lists, or performance would not be an issue. Have you tested if your optimized version is better than your initial one? You should compare your implementation

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Has anybody translated Douglas Hofstadter's Scientific American articles introducting Scheme to a general audience into Haskell?

2010-03-02 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 1:04 AM, Benjamin L. Russell dekudekup...@yahoo.com wrote: There is an interesting, if somewhat dated, suggestion on Lambda the Ultimate (see http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1748) that someone translate Doug Hofstadter's Scientific American columns introducing Scheme

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Prelude.undefined

2010-03-03 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Tom Hawkins tomahawk...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 7:24 AM, Alexander Dunlap alexander.dun...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 9:06 PM, Tom Hawkins tomahawk...@gmail.com wrote: How do I track down an reference to an undefined value?  My

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Changing my Profile

2010-08-24 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 2:48 AM, David Virebayre dav.vire+hask...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/8/23 Christopher Done chrisd...@googlemail.com: Any suggestions would be appreciated. Isn't there the possibility to mute a thread in gmail ? You need to activate keyboard shortcuts, then ? gives you a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell at bettercodes.org

2010-09-22 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 11:15 AM, David Sankel cam...@gmail.com wrote: I can understand why it would be slightly better for any website to not require JavaScript clients since it becomes a bit more accessible. I'm confused though about why being a professional developer site would make this

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform, Hackage and Cabal : The 2nd Year : Status Report

2010-10-01 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Matthias Kilian k...@outback.escape.de wrote: On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 09:29:32PM +0100, Malcolm Wallace wrote: The slides are here:   http://donsbot.wordpress.com/2010/10/01/hackage-cabal-and-the-haskell-platform-the-second-year/ And the video is here:  

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell web development entries on the Wiki

2010-10-02 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Michael Snoyman mich...@snoyman.com wrote: I understand the advantages to splitting into multiple pages, but on the other hand it *does* make it more difficult to locate information. My guess is a good search function on the wiki will make that point moot.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] back doors into the IO monad

2010-10-24 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Nicolas Pouillard nicolas.pouill...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 00:28:37 +0200, Manlio Perillo manlio_peri...@libero.it wrote: Hi. What are the available methods to execute IO actions from pure code? I know only unsafePerformIO and foreign import

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell and a complete mail client lib?

2010-10-27 Thread Gwern Branwen
2010/10/27 Don Stewart d...@galois.com: gue.schmidt: Hi all, do we Haskellers have a complete Mail client library? As always, look on Hackage:     http://www.google.com/search?hl=enas_sitesearch=hackage.haskell.org/packageas_q=email Besides the tagged packages, there are a few other

[Haskell-cafe] ANN: archiver 0.1 and 0.2

2010-12-10 Thread Gwern Branwen
I'd like to announce a small utility and library which builds on my WebArchive plugin for gitit: archiver http://hackage.haskell.org/package/archiver Source is available via `darcs get http://community.haskell.org/~gwern/archiver/`. The library half is a simple wrapper around the appropriate HTTP

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Building lambdabot

2011-01-07 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Max Bolingbroke batterseapo...@hotmail.com wrote: Well, I tried to see if I could reproduce your problem but didn't get to this stage. It looks like v4.2.2.1 from Hackage hasn't been updated for donkeys years and breaks massively because of at least the new

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Building lambdabot

2011-01-19 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Max Bolingbroke batterseapo...@hotmail.com wrote: That sounds like a good thing to do. Also, oo you know if there's any reason that the most recent lambdabot is not pushed to Hackage? That might make things even easier for others who wish to install it. It

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Building lambdabot

2011-01-20 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 3:24 AM, Max Bolingbroke batterseapo...@hotmail.com wrote: On 20 January 2011 01:51, Gwern Branwen gwe...@gmail.com wrote: It had a lot of issues which meant it wouldn't build anywhere, where at least the Hackage version worked at some point. I spent this evening

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Building lambdabot

2011-01-20 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Max Bolingbroke batterseapo...@hotmail.com wrote: On 20 January 2011 17:30, Gwern Branwen gwe...@gmail.com wrote: * You need to loosen the base upper bound to 4.4 * If using base = 4, you need to depend on the syb package as well (current version 0.3) Would

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Building lambdabot

2011-01-20 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Max Bolingbroke batterseapo...@hotmail.com wrote: On 20 January 2011 20:50, Gwern Branwen gwe...@gmail.com wrote: Notice the flag defaults to False, not True. When I tried it with True, I got: $ cabal install Resolving dependencies... cabal: dependencies

Re: [Haskell-cafe] astronomy projects in haskell

2009-04-22 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Deniz Dogan deniz.a.m.do...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/4/22 Michael Litchard mich...@schmong.org: Could this be what you meant? http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Haskell_(programming_language) Deniz Dogan That being just a Wikipedia mirror, seems pretty

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: ANNOUNCE: Utrecht Haskell Compiler (UHC) --first release

2009-04-23 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Claus Reinke claus.rei...@talk21.com wrote: ... joking and bikeshedding aside: - Haskell'98 is a fixed standard. Haskell'98 (revised) is a revised version of   the same standard. The discussion on what is in either is over. Unless someone wants to start and

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Is 78 characters still a good option? Was: breaking too long lines

2009-04-23 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Achim Schneider bars...@web.de wrote: Maurí­cio briqueabra...@yahoo.com wrote: Maybe we could learn with them: what about if Haskell Weekly News had a section on code review, like many newspapers have book review sections? The weekly WTF? I'm not sure such

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Is 78 characters still a good option? Was: breaking too long lines

2009-04-24 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Achim Schneider bars...@web.de wrote: Xiao-Yong Jin xj2...@columbia.edu wrote: Gwern Branwen gwe...@gmail.com writes: I was cabalizing a package once, and I chucked into the build-depends 'ghc' and made it build. About 30 seconds later, it occurred to me

Re: [Haskell-cafe] subscribing to the comments, online Real World Haskell

2009-04-24 Thread Gwern Branwen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:49 PM, Michael P Mossey wrote: I love that Real World Haskell is online, here: I love that it has a comment section embedded with every paragraph. However, I would like some ability to subscribe to specific

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell vs Clean (speed comparison)

2009-05-03 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Daniel Carrera daniel.carr...@theingots.org wrote: Hi, I think the mail server may have been acting up earlier. I sent this to Haskell-beginners, but it more properly belongs here. I found something interesting. General wisdom is that Clean (or OCaml) is

Re: [Haskell-cafe] When is it OK to create a new mailing list?

2009-05-04 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Daniel Carrera daniel.carr...@theingots.org wrote: Would this not fit well in the wxHaskell mailing list? That list is not very high traffic and there is an obvious overlap in the target audience. Daniel. This was my thought as well. Adding another list is

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