Re: [Haskell-cafe] Yi editor tutorial
On 2008.01.15 22:54:08 -0800, Benjamin L. Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled 1.8K characters: Your Yi editor tutorial looks like a fascinating idea, but I use Mac OS X (10.2.8 Jaguar, soon to be upgraded to 10.5.x Leopard) at home, and Windows XP at work, while your tutorial is based on Ubuntu and the bash shell. A few questions: 1) Do you have any versions of your Yi tutorial for Mac OS X or Windows XP; if not, are there any plans for such tutorials in the future? I suspect you would have a hard time running on Windows XP: the cabal file currently declares a dependency on 'unix' because the VTY interface needs it, and also because the Dired module needs System.Posix.Users (to look up file owners). So at the very least you'd need to edit those out. 2) On your tutorial top page (http://nobugs.org/developer/yi/), you mentioned that you had first learned Haskell in 2001 from _The Haskell School of Expression_ by Paul Hudak. I also tried studying that book, and found it very interesting (especially with its focus on multimedia examples), but unfortunately got stuck on an exercise in Chapter 2 that required trigonometry, which I had forgotten from lack of use and didn't have time to review. Also, I wanted to study it online, and had purchased the book (and thus paid the licensing fee), but was unable to find an online version. Do you have any suggestions for online books with the same flavor that require less domain-specific knowledge; alternatively, do you have any suggestions for online material that precisely covers the domain-specific knowledge assumed by that book? Benjamin L. Russell -- gwern NAVCM Area51 M.P.R.I. Misawa Manfurov CACI Internet rapnel W3 HF pgprV7qzwi182.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Yi editor tutorial
First of all, Andrew: Thanks! That was really interesting. Benjamin L. Russell wrote: Your Yi editor tutorial looks like a fascinating idea, but I use Mac OS X (10.2.8 Jaguar, soon to be upgraded to 10.5.x Leopard) at home, and Windows XP at work, while your tutorial is based on Ubuntu and the bash shell. A few questions: 1) Do you have any versions of your Yi tutorial for Mac OS X or Windows XP; if not, are there any plans for such tutorials in the future? Didn't look to me very ubuntu specific. I bet it would work out very similarly on OS X. WinXP is something else, as gwern observed J ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Yi editor tutorial
Your Yi editor tutorial looks like a fascinating idea, but I use Mac OS X (10.2.8 Jaguar, soon to be upgraded to 10.5.x Leopard) at home, and Windows XP at work, while your tutorial is based on Ubuntu and the bash shell. A few questions: 1) Do you have any versions of your Yi tutorial for Mac OS X or Windows XP; if not, are there any plans for such tutorials in the future? 2) On your tutorial top page (http://nobugs.org/developer/yi/), you mentioned that you had first learned Haskell in 2001 from _The Haskell School of Expression_ by Paul Hudak. I also tried studying that book, and found it very interesting (especially with its focus on multimedia examples), but unfortunately got stuck on an exercise in Chapter 2 that required trigonometry, which I had forgotten from lack of use and didn't have time to review. Also, I wanted to study it online, and had purchased the book (and thus paid the licensing fee), but was unable to find an online version. Do you have any suggestions for online books with the same flavor that require less domain-specific knowledge; alternatively, do you have any suggestions for online material that precisely covers the domain-specific knowledge assumed by that book? Benjamin L. Russell --- Andrew Birkett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've recently started using Yi, the haskell editor. I found it slightly non-trivial to get started, so I've written up my installation method and a beginners guide tutorial which I hope will be of interest to other people who'd like to try Yi. It lives at: http://nobugs.org/developer/yi/ Let me know if it's useful or if you have suggestions (to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Andrew -- - http://www.nobugs.org - ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Yi editor tutorial
On 2008.01.14 13:34:42 +, Andrew Birkett [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled 0.8K characters: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm going through them now, and I like them a lot. (Maybe I'll finally begin doing stuff with Yi!) Is there any particular reason you didn't put your tutorials on the Haskell wiki? I'd think they'd be good there. Cool, thanks. :-) I agree it'll be a good idea to move it to the wiki, and I'll do that soon. On my own site, I can make lots of little changes locally and then atomically (well, quickly at least!) rsync the new version up onto the server. It makes life easier when I'm likely to change around the top level structure. The wiki makes a lot of sense though, because it's central and other people can extend the tutorial and fix bugs. I'd say editing a wiki is even easier. :) But if you want to wait until you've gotten it to a state where you're happy with it, that's good too. It's also nice to be able to check the server logs and gauge interest too (about 5000 hits since yesterday). Andrew True, but the interest won't last forever; so maybe after the Reddit links go quiescent? -- gwern rico Glock telex million propellants Warfare Ortega CNN 8182 Vauxhall pgpokedMhOryB.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
[Haskell-cafe] Yi editor tutorial
Hi, I've recently started using Yi, the haskell editor. I found it slightly non-trivial to get started, so I've written up my installation method and a beginners guide tutorial which I hope will be of interest to other people who'd like to try Yi. It lives at: http://nobugs.org/developer/yi/ Let me know if it's useful or if you have suggestions (to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Andrew -- - http://www.nobugs.org - ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
