[Haskell] Re: Making Haskell more open

2005-11-10 Thread Ashley Yakeley
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ben Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Probably the biggest example of this type of thing working well on > a large scale is Wikipedia. (Wikipedia uses MediaWiki.) I would much prefer to use a MediaWiki than the existing hawiki. Particularly valuable are the el

Re: [Haskell] Making Haskell more open

2005-11-10 Thread Till Mossakowski
I have also made nice experiences with MediaWiki/WikiPedia. However, I think while you can include images on MediaWiki pages, you cannot include documents (like ps or pdf) - these have to be external links. Of course, the possibility of including such documents would be a desirable feature for a s

[Haskell] Non-Copyleft Haskell SOAP/WSDL library?

2005-11-10 Thread Ashley Yakeley
Does anyone know of a non-copyleft open-source SOAP/WSDL library for Haskell? HAIFA is GPL apparently. Something like the usual BSD license would be perfect. -- Ashley Yakeley, Seattle WA ___ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskel

Re: [Haskell] [ANNOUNCE] yhc - York Haskell Compiler

2005-11-10 Thread Jeremy Shaw
At Fri, 11 Nov 2005 01:11:17 +, Thomas Davie wrote: > > Announcing the York Haskell Compiler - a Haskell 98 compiler with > roots in nhc98. It's not totally finished, but is getting there > quickly, and could well be of interest to Haskell developers. Is there some trick to getting it to buil

Re: [Haskell] Making Haskell more open

2005-11-10 Thread Andrea Sassanelli
Sorry to intrude myslf like this in the conversation. First of all, let me present myself: My name is Andrea Sassanelli, and I'm Italian. I have just started studying Haskell at the UoEdinburgh this year, and immediatelly fell in love with it.   On a sidenote, the wikipedia does rely on moderators

[Haskell] [ANNOUNCE] yhc - York Haskell Compiler

2005-11-10 Thread Thomas Davie
Announcing the York Haskell Compiler - a Haskell 98 compiler with roots in nhc98. It's not totally finished, but is getting there quickly, and could well be of interest to Haskell developers. Webpage: http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~ndm/yhc/ Project Blog: http://yhc06.blogspot.com/ Project Wiki:

Re[2]: [Haskell] Haskell users survey--please respond!

2005-11-10 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello John, Wednesday, November 09, 2005, 5:18:12 PM, you wrote: JH> I take your point, and I'll think about doing this--although I don't want to JH> spam JH> people with surveys! I'll also be very careful how I interpret the results. how about adding question about features people want in Haske

Re: [Haskell] formal verification for functional programming languages

2005-11-10 Thread Till Mossakowski
Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote: Hello, where can I find information about formal verification techniques and tools for functional programming languages? Both introductionary texts and current research papers etc. are welcome. See the specification language HasCASL. For specification of monadic prog

[Haskell] Re: Making Haskell more open

2005-11-10 Thread Ben Moseley
Simon Peyton-Jones microsoft.com> writes: > ... And avoid > getting screwed up by malicious folk? > Probably the biggest example of this type of thing working well on a large scale is Wikipedia. I'm not intimately familiar with the process they use, but I believe there are a number of people

Re: [Haskell] Making Haskell more open

2005-11-10 Thread Malcolm Wallace
"Simon Peyton-Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - Make it possible for people to add comments, explanations, or > questions to > * The GHC user manual [currently generated using DocBook] > * The Haskell 98 Report > The idea would be that anyone could help improve these documents

Re: [Haskell] why I need so much memory????

2005-11-10 Thread P.C.Callaghan
Hello, > You can write "any (==p) r", using a partial application of the equality > predicate. Reads better IMHO. OR: you could write the slightly better (see below) version any (p==) r Notice that this is directly partial application, rather than a shorthand for "(flip (==) p)". The

[Haskell] Making Haskell more open

2005-11-10 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
Dear Haskell folk One thing that hit me forcibly during ICFP in Tallinn, and the associated workshops, is that the Haskell community may not be as good as (say) the Perl community at engaging and involving the people "in the trenches" [PRL]. Haskell.org is centrally maintained by a couple of (exc

Re: [Haskell] Haskell users survey--please respond!

2005-11-10 Thread John Hughes
Am Mittwoch, 9. November 2005 13:09 schrieben Sie: On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 01:02:19PM +0100, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote: > Only 2% find fglasgow-exts useful??? Only 2% consider it a tool or library. I think that if John cares about getting reliable results, he should take the results from this su

Re: [Haskell] Haskell users survey--please respond!

2005-11-10 Thread John Hughes
I want to stress that I'm interested in responses from ALL users--if you're a complete beginner writing your first Haskell programs on a course, I'd like to know that, just as if you're one of the designers using it for your next POPL article. Do you also want respones from people which once

Re: [Haskell] Haskell users survey--please respond!

2005-11-10 Thread John Hughes
Subject: Re: [Haskell] Haskell users survey--please respond! Hello, why doesn't the section about Haskell tools and libraries mention HToolkit? Best wishes, Wolfgang Because you haven't added it! The survey is designed so that each respondent can add NEW favourite tools to the list, b

Re: [Haskell] Re: Haskell users survey--please respond!

2005-11-10 Thread Matthias Neubauer
John Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It should be enough to read the list of options using safe IO, so that > it is the same when the > form is processed as when it was generated (which I've now done). That > leaves open the risk that two simultaneous users may add the SAME new > tool or coun

Re[2]: [Haskell] WASH-Problem was Re: Haskell users survey--please respond!

2005-11-10 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello John, Wednesday, November 09, 2005, 1:40:13 PM, you wrote: >>BTW, is there a way to update my entry? I forgot to mention one of the >>best tools I use - Parsec :-( JH> I'm afraid not, because there's no record of which is YOUR entry. I JH> suppose I could have asked for an email address,

Re[2]: [Haskell] Haskell users survey--please respond!

2005-11-10 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Tomasz, Wednesday, November 09, 2005, 3:09:46 PM, you wrote: >> Only 2% find fglasgow-exts useful??? TZ> Only 2% consider it a tool or library. TZ> I think that if John cares about getting reliable results, he should TZ> take the results from this survey and prepare the next one already T