Re: [Haskell-cafe] gmp license == no commercial/closed source haskell software ??
Hallo, Don Stewart wrote: Supporting this is trivial with a dynamically linked / DLL libgmp. With a statically linked one, it is also possible, since the API calls to libgmp are specified. Is it also possible? How? This shouldn't prevent commercial use -- lots of other companies have decided this is OK. You just need to be aware of it. They have decided this is OK as long as they can ship a shared library. Cheers, -alex http://www.ventonegro.org/ ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Very silly
Hallo, Andrew Coppin wrote: C++ has some interesting ideas. I haven't learned how to use templates yet, but what I do find interesting is that there is no automatic memory management, and yet you can still do fairly dynamic programming. I've never seen any other language that allows this. (I had assumed it's impossible...) This makes me wonder just now necessary GC really is, and whether there is some way to avoid it... Garbage collection was invented by Lisp implementors because of a common pattern in functional languages: The sharing of parts of structures, like lists. In an imperative world this is straightforward, one allocates a linked list, uses it, and then releases the memory. In a world full of closures that may have captured parts of your list, manual memory management is near impossible. -alex http://www.ventonegro.org/ ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Salsa: A .NET Bridge for Haskell
Hallo, Andrew Coppin wrote: In what alternate universe? One with a 3-day time dilation, apparently... [Sorry, couldn't resist. ;-) ] No problem, I didn't get your point anyway. -alex http://www.ventonegro.org/ ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Health effects
Hallo, Andrew Coppin wrote: In other news... apparently chocolate is leathaly toxic to dogs. Random. Chicolate is extremely toxic to cats. Cheers, -alex http://www.ventonegro.org/ ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Health effects
Hallo, Andrew Coppin wrote: Anton van Straaten wrote: You're not alone: http://xkcd.com/245/ Heh. Randel appears to have not heard of Haskell. He thinks _Lisp_ is the ultimate language. ;-) Well, at least he's close, let's wait till he finds out about Scheme. :-) Cheers, -alex http://www.ventonegro.org/ ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Climbing up the shootout...
Hallo, John Van Enk wrote: I'm going to have to agree with David... even if you ignore the multi-threaded projects, why couldn't the C programs just implement very specific version of the third party library inside their code? Is there anything stopping them? Maybe they don't care *that* much? Cheers, -alex http://www.ventonegro.org/ ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Lambda and closures in PHP -- could someone please comment?
Hallo, Jules Bean wrote: PR Stanley wrote: With respect, do you not think it'd be wiser for the community [snip] *disgusted* This is exactly the sort of message that haskell-cafe does not normally contain. Let's not start now. This is a civilized mailing list. Either comment on the nice gentlemen's PHP closure proposal from a language point of view, or don't say anything. Thanks Jules, I was starting to worry about Haskell-café. -alex http://www.ventonegro.org/ ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Lambda and closures in PHP -- could someone please comment?
Hallo, PR Stanley wrote: Now, if you, Jules, Alex or some other wannabe Hitler have a problem with my freedom of expression then your best solution is to saddle up and get the hell out yourselves. This is the wrong place for setting up your tinpot dictatorship, Doctor! I am grateful for the help I've been getting from the list and my understanding of FP has vastly improved since my membership of this list but I refuse to tolerate bullies who use the list as a way of lifting themselves out of their own shitty lives. Now I am angry! Wow, Godwin's in record time. Please don't confuse freedom of speech with name-calling, or distasteful, non-constructive comments about someone else's programming language. Stop making yourself look like a fool. -alex http://www.ventonegro.org/ ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] How to program with sqlite?
Hallo, Bjorn Bringert wrote: This is SQLite's fault. In SQLite, all types are aliases for STRING. Whatever type you use in the create and insert, you will get strings back. That's not true. SQLite has integers (64 bits) and reals. But, if you try to read the field as text it will gladly convert it for you. For reading as the correcting type, the binding should have used sqlite3_column_get_type first. Cheers, -alex ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Doing some things right
Hallo, Andrew Coppin escreveu: [I actually heard a number of people tell me that learning LISP would change my life forever because LISP has something called macros. I tried to learn it, and disliked it greatly. It's too messy. And what the heck is cdr ment to mean anyway? To me, LISP doesn't even seem all that different from normal languages (modulo weird syntax). Now Haskell... that's FUN!] Macros are not the only thing that makes Lisp (it hasn't been called LISP for ages) great, but surely contributes for that. Unfortunately Lisp is like the Matrix, you can't be told how great it is, you have to see for yourself. Cheers, -alex ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Doing some things right
Hallo, Andrew Coppin escreveu: Brian Sniffen wrote: On Dec 28, 2007 6:05 AM, Andrew Coppin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [I actually heard a number of people tell me that learning LISP would change my life forever because LISP has something called macros. I tried to learn it, and disliked it greatly. It's too messy. And what the heck is cdr ment to mean anyway? To me, LISP doesn't even seem all that different from normal languages (modulo weird syntax). Now Haskell... that's FUN!] Contents of Data Register. Right. I've heard the story about why it came to be called that, but seriously... I can never remember whether I want cdr or car. It's a silly choice of name. [Sure, you can rename it. And then nobody but you will understand it.] In Common Lisp, standardised in 1984, there are the equivalent functions FIRST and REST, which everyone know what they mean. Cheers, -alex ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Storable types
Hallo fellow Brazilian, Clerton Filho escreveu: Hi, I'm newbie in Haskell, and I have some doubts... In this programming language, do we have storable values? Case affirmative, what are the storable types in Haskell, and how can I implement then... What exactly is a storable type? -alex ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] New to Haskell: The End
Hallo, Cristian Baboi escreveu: From your list, I agree to add some pattern matching abilities to mine, but that it all. Keep using Haskell and resend your list in six months. -alex ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Brazilian Haskellers ?
Hallo, Rich Neswold escreveu: On Nov 14, 2007 10:59 AM, Ricardo Herrmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi brazilian haskellers, Wow! I knew the Haskell community has been growing... but there's a brazillian of us? Well, we are more than one. :-) Cheers, -alex ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Best Linux for Haskell?
Hallo, Maurício escreveu: Maybe (and only maybe), before choosing a distribution, you should choose a package system, since that's what you are going to use to install software. Look for RPM and APT, and see what you think. With my package system (I don't wanna give you any prejudice, so I won't tell you it's APT), I can get upgrades easily. But that's because I know how to use it. There are also other options beside RPM and APT. Aptitude is much friendlier than APT. Cheers, Alex Queiroz ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
