Re: [Haskell-cafe] Bathroom reading

2007-08-15 Thread Ketil Malde
On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 17:22 +0200, Bas van Dijk wrote: On 8/14/07, Dougal Stanton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for cool but mind-bending examples of functional brilliance. Maybe: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Blow_your_mind

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Bathroom reading

2007-08-15 Thread Dan Piponi
On 8/14/07, Dougal Stanton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for cool but mind-bending examples of functional brilliance. One of my favourite examples is: http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/hinze99functional.html Anyone who studies binomial heaps is struck by the similarity to binary arithmetic.

[Haskell-cafe] Bathroom reading

2007-08-14 Thread Dougal Stanton
I'm looking for cool but mind-bending examples of functional brilliance. Let us say, hypothetically, you had a bathroom without any reading material. And having read all the Dilbert and Garfield you could seriously stomach, decide you should educate yourself while on the job. :-) So you decide

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Bathroom reading

2007-08-14 Thread Bas van Dijk
On 8/14/07, Dougal Stanton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for cool but mind-bending examples of functional brilliance. Let us say, hypothetically, you had a bathroom without any reading material. And having read all the Dilbert and Garfield you could seriously stomach, decide you should

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Bathroom reading

2007-08-14 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On Aug 14, 2007, at 11:17 , Dougal Stanton wrote: Let us say, hypothetically, you had a bathroom without any reading material. And having read all the Dilbert and Garfield you could seriously stomach, decide you should educate yourself while on the job. :-) Sounds to me like you want a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Bathroom reading

2007-08-14 Thread Spencer Janssen
On Tuesday 14 August 2007 10:17:53 Dougal Stanton wrote: I'm looking for cool but mind-bending examples of functional brilliance. Let us say, hypothetically, you had a bathroom without any reading material. And having read all the Dilbert and Garfield you could seriously stomach, decide you

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Bathroom reading

2007-08-14 Thread Brent Yorgey
So you decide to print up some one-liner style programs into a little booklet. Something between credit-card and postcard sized, with a neat but mind-bending program on it. Don Stewart occasionally swoops in with some fixpoint malarkey to defuse heated discussions. I mean that kind of thing,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Bathroom reading

2007-08-14 Thread Dougal Stanton
On 14/08/07, Brent Yorgey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Clearly, we need to actually put together such a book! I'm imagining something where you have two mostly blank facing pages, with the code by itself in the middle of the right page; then the next 2-4 pages devoted to a short discussion of the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Bathroom reading

2007-08-14 Thread Brent Yorgey
On 8/14/07, Dougal Stanton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 14/08/07, Brent Yorgey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Clearly, we need to actually put together such a book! I'm imagining something where you have two mostly blank facing pages, with the code by itself in the middle of the right page; then