RE: Using Haskell code in VBA (MS Access)?

2000-08-17 Thread Sigbjorn Finne
The support libraries for HaskellDirect provide functions for converting between BSTRs and Haskell' String (Com.marshallBSTR, Com.unmarshallBSTR) -- http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/hdirect/user-32.html has the overview. However, the binaries available for that library is for ghc-4.045, so

Re: The importance and relevance of FP

2000-08-17 Thread Frank Atanassow
Ralf Muschall writes: simplistic, binary distinction), then you have to decide where to draw the line between "functional languages" and other languages that may, to some I think it became impossible to draw that line since the inventors and maintainers of dysfunctional langauges

Haskell for DSPs ?

2000-08-17 Thread Axel Jantsch
Hi, I wonder if anybody has ever tried to develop a good compiler for Haskell or any other functional language for a DSP processor? There are no good C compilers for DSPs and much of DSP programming is still done in assembler, due to the irregularity of DSP instruction sets and the peculiarity

Re: Haskell for DSPs ?

2000-08-17 Thread Kwanghoon Choi
Hello, I knew one relevant link for functional DSP: http://users.snip.net/~donadio/mpd-hs-dsp.html Kwanghoon On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Axel Jantsch wrote: Hi, I wonder if anybody has ever tried to develop a good compiler for Haskell or any other functional language for a DSP processor?

Re: Haskell for DSPs ?

2000-08-17 Thread Sylvan Ravinet
Hi, For DSP with Haskell, I remember having seen 2 years ago a presentation by James Hook (Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology, Pacific Software Research) on Hawk, which should be a Haskell derivative. http://www.cse.ogi.edu/PacSoft/ should be a starting point Hope it is

RE: The importance and relevance of FP

2000-08-17 Thread Doug Ransom
If C# again makes it easy to write unsafe code, then in order to avoid the learning curve, many current C/C++ programmers are likely to continue programming in The Old Way. The trick lies in the learning curve. I think you are mistakening ignorance for stupidity. It is true that

Re: The importance and relevance of FP

2000-08-17 Thread Craig Dickson
Doug Ransom wrote: I think you are mistakening ignorance for stupidity. It is true that C/C++ programmers like to write OO and few have any idea about functional programming, but very few will miss the ability to constantly shoot themselves in the foot with uninitalized random pointers,