[Haskell] ANNOUNCE: strict-0.1, strict versions of (some) standard Haskell types

2007-03-20 Thread Roman Leshchinskiy
I am pleased to announce the first release of package strict which provides strict versions of standard Haskell types. At the moment, pairs, Maybe and Either are defined. For instance, strict Maybe is defined as data Maybe a = Nothing | Just !a Package homepage: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~r

Re: [Haskell] Call-by-name: moved to haskell-cafe

2007-03-20 Thread Dan Weston
Dan Weston wrote: Douglas Philips wrote: On 2007 Mar 20, at 3:30 PM, Dan Weston indited: I looked up John Backus on wikipedia and followed a link to ALGOL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL_60 where the following "undesirable" property of call-by-name is mentioned. "ALGOL 60 allowed for two

Re: [Haskell] NYTimes.com: John W. Backus, 82, Fortran Developer, Dies

2007-03-20 Thread Dan Weston
Douglas Philips wrote: On 2007 Mar 20, at 3:30 PM, Dan Weston indited: I looked up John Backus on wikipedia and followed a link to ALGOL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL_60 where the following "undesirable" property of call-by-name is mentioned. "ALGOL 60 allowed for two evaluation strategi

Re: [Haskell] NYTimes.com: John W. Backus, 82, Fortran Developer, Dies

2007-03-20 Thread Douglas Philips
On 2007 Mar 20, at 3:30 PM, Dan Weston indited: I looked up John Backus on wikipedia and followed a link to ALGOL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL_60 where the following "undesirable" property of call-by-name is mentioned. "ALGOL 60 allowed for two evaluation strategies for parameter pa

Re: [Haskell] NYTimes.com: John W. Backus, 82, Fortran Developer, Dies

2007-03-20 Thread Dan Weston
I looked up John Backus on wikipedia and followed a link to ALGOL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL_60 where the following "undesirable" property of call-by-name is mentioned. "ALGOL 60 allowed for two evaluation strategies for parameter passing: the common call-by-value, and call-by-name. Cal

[Haskell] NYTimes.com: John W. Backus, 82, Fortran Developer, Dies

2007-03-20 Thread paul . hudak
This page was sent to you by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] John Backus, inventor of Fortran, Turing Award winner, and also an early pioneer in functional programming, died Saturday at his home in Oregon. Many of us have fond memories of him in the earlier days of our careers, and we all owe a lot to him f