Installing on Win32 and web library question

2000-07-19 Thread Jose Emilio Labra Gayo
I have just tried to install ghc-4.08 on a win98 machine and it does not work. I write a report below. On the other side, I would like to do some programming on the Internet using Haskell and I would like to use some library like libwww for Haskell. Are there someone planning to develop such a

RE: Haskell jobs (fwd)

2000-07-19 Thread S. Alexander Jacobson
I think many of the issues were discussed with great clarity on slashdot. If we get the relevant critical mass of functional programmers, you will definitely be hearing from us. Off the top of my head here are some Haskell specific things that we need: * HSP pages (like ASP or JSP or PHP) * in

hugs98 download and installation

2000-07-19 Thread cqnguyen
Dear Sir/Madam, I am a student in Computer Sciences. I have just successfully downloaded Hugs98 but having trouble of using it. My question is that if I need to download both files : hugs98-Feb2000.zip and win32exes.zip into C:\Hugs98 to get it running or just either one of them. I have tried

RE: Haskell jobs (fwd)

2000-07-19 Thread Frank Atanassow
S. Alexander Jacobson writes: Off the top of my head here are some Haskell specific things that we need: * HSP pages (like ASP or JSP or PHP) Erik Meijer has done this. Can't find the preprint online, though. (Erik?) * in memory Haskell server analogous to JServ that talks to apache

RE: Haskell jobs (fwd)

2000-07-19 Thread Chris Angus
Aren't most of these "java additions" MS J++ or MS specific rather than java/jdbc "run-anywhere" though? Hoping that this isnt the case Chris -Original Message- From: Frank Atanassow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 19 July 2000 10:22 To: S. Alexander Jacobson Cc: Manuel M. T.

Re: Precision problem

2000-07-19 Thread George Russell
Sven Panne wrote: (As an aside: I *hate* standards which are not freely available, I've never seen a real IEEE-754 document. A $4000 annual subscription price for a single person is ridiculous, and I would probably have slight problems persuade my company to buy the $40.000 enterprise

RE: Haskell jobs (fwd)

2000-07-19 Thread Frank Atanassow
Chris Angus writes: Aren't most of these "java additions" MS J++ or MS specific rather than java/jdbc "run-anywhere" though? Not as far as I know, but maybe Erik and Daan will clarify. -- Frank Atanassow, Dept. of Computer Science, Utrecht University Padualaan 14, PO Box 80.089, 3508 TB

RE: Haskell jobs (fwd)

2000-07-19 Thread Manuel M. T. Chakravarty
Frank Atanassow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, Chris Angus writes: Aren't most of these "java additions" MS J++ or MS specific rather than java/jdbc "run-anywhere" though? Not as far as I know, but maybe Erik and Daan will clarify. HaskellDB is Win-specific as it is based on COM - at

RE: Haskell jobs (fwd)

2000-07-19 Thread Frank Atanassow
Manuel M. T. Chakravarty writes: Frank Atanassow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, Chris Angus writes: Aren't most of these "java additions" MS J++ or MS specific rather than java/jdbc "run-anywhere" though? Not as far as I know, but maybe Erik and Daan will clarify.

RE: Haskell jobs (fwd)

2000-07-19 Thread Manuel M. T. Chakravarty
Frank Atanassow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, Manuel M. T. Chakravarty writes: Frank Atanassow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, Chris Angus writes: Aren't most of these "java additions" MS J++ or MS specific rather than java/jdbc "run-anywhere" though? Not as far as I know,

RE: Haskell jobs (fwd)

2000-07-19 Thread S. Alexander Jacobson
Folks, I have seen a few answers here. Let me add a few other constraints: * we are unix shop so win32 solutions don't work well here * the codebase needs to be production qualty (handle millions of hits per day) * there should be a network of users (or a support organization) running and

RE: Haskell jobs (fwd)

2000-07-19 Thread Axel Simon
On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, S. Alexander Jacobson wrote: * the codebase needs to be production qualty (handle millions of hits per day) * there should be a network of users (or a support organization) running and supporting the software Hi, I think most of the Haskell libraries found on

Re: Haskell jobs (fwd)

2000-07-19 Thread George Russell
Axel Simon wrote: One for industrial-strength and complete libraries that will remain stable as long as Haskell lives and one for the rest. What you need for that is SUPPORT, for example, to ensure that things still work when Haskell changes. This is difficult to guarantee in an academic

Where do I start ?

2000-07-19 Thread Nicolas Tremblay
Hi all, I am very interested by the Haskell language. I'm not at any faculty, I just heard about this language on the internet. I work in a QA departement in Montreeal, I don't have a lot of experience in programming; exept for Bourne shell scripting which I became fairly confortable with.

Re: Haskell jobs (fwd)

2000-07-19 Thread Axel Simon
On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, George Russell wrote: What you need for that is SUPPORT, for example, to ensure that things still work when Haskell changes. This is difficult to guarantee in an academic environment. But the success of a language will depend on the quality of the libraries, too. If we

Re: hugs98 download and installation

2000-07-19 Thread Benjamin Leon Russell
Dear Cuong Nguyen, I just downloaded and unpacked the latest version of Hugs98, and it worked just fine. You first need to download hugs98-Feb2000.zip into your C: drive and unzip it there. This will create a directory called "hugs98" directly under your C: drive. Then, you need to download

Re: Where do I start ?

2000-07-19 Thread Friedrich Dominicus
Nicolas Tremblay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My few suggestions (I have starting looking at Haskell just a year or so ago and never used it very intensivly) Download Hugs it's somewhat nicer to work with. There are two books available for Haskell Haskell The Craft of Functional Programming

Haskell libraries, support status, and range of applicability (was: Haskell jobs)

2000-07-19 Thread Claus Reinke
On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, George Russell wrote: What you need for that is SUPPORT, for example, to ensure that things still work when Haskell changes. This is difficult to guarantee in an academic environment. But the success of a language will depend on the quality of the libraries, too. If

Re: Haskell libraries, support status, and range of applicability(was: Haskell jobs)

2000-07-19 Thread Jan Skibinski
On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Claus Reinke wrote: [List of some examples of library status information..] They are all fine and useful. But I do not see any clear incentives for authors for doing so, apart from their desire to make libraries perfect .. in their spare time,

The type of zip

2000-07-19 Thread Matt Harden
Fellow Haskellers, Please forgive my lack of brevity here. It has always seemed to me that having multiple zip functions with different names (zip, zip3, zip4, etc..) was unfortunate, and a single zip that handled all possible tuples would be better. Now, with Multi-Parameter Type Classes and

RE: Where do I start ?

2000-07-19 Thread Michael A. Jones
Title: RE: Where do I start ? Rather than give advice, let me tell you how I got started and perhaps it will help. I was a C++ and Java programmer. Then I took a class in the logic on computation, where part two was lambda calculus. Part of the class was an evaluation machine that we built

Re: Gratification (was: libraries, support status, ..)

2000-07-19 Thread Peter Hancock
Jan Skibinski wrote, about Claus Reinke's examples of library status information..] They are all fine and useful. But I do not see any clear incentives for authors for doing so, apart from their desire to make libraries perfect .. in their spare time, if any, of