[Haskell] ANN: hledger 0.4 released

2009-04-03 Thread Simon Michael
Dear all, I have released hledger 0.4 on hackage. There is also a new website at http://hledger.org , with screenshots (textual!), a demo (will it survive!?), and docs (not too many!) Release notes are at http://hledger.org/NEWS , and bravely pasted below. In case you forgot: hledger is a

Re: [Haskell] Re: Marketing Haskell

2009-04-03 Thread Jean-Philippe Bernardy
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 7:12 AM, Marc A. Ziegert wrote: > how about an octopus? I could not resist the opportunity to combine two great ideas and give you the haskell octopus logo in attachment. It's a bit rough, but with a bit more polish, what do you think? Cheers, JP. <>__

Re: [Haskell] Re: Marketing Haskell

2009-04-03 Thread Anton van Straaten
Jean-Philippe Bernardy wrote: On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 7:12 AM, Marc A. Ziegert wrote: how about an octopus? I could not resist the opportunity to combine two great ideas and give you the haskell octopus logo in attachment. It's a bit rough, but with a bit more polish, wha

[Haskell] Re: Marketing Haskell

2009-04-03 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
On Fri, 3 Apr 2009 09:09:26 +0200, Jean-Philippe Bernardy wrote: >On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 7:12 AM, Marc A. Ziegert wrote: > >> how about an octopus? > >I could not resist the opportunity to combine two great ideas and give >you the haskell octopus logo in attachment. It's a bit rough, but with >a

Re: [Haskell] Re: Marketing Haskell

2009-04-03 Thread Thomas Davie
On 3 Apr 2009, at 09:25, Benjamin L.Russell wrote: On Fri, 3 Apr 2009 09:09:26 +0200, Jean-Philippe Bernardy wrote: On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 7:12 AM, Marc A. Ziegert wrote: how about an octopus? I could not resist the opportunity to combine two great ideas and give you the haskell octop

[Haskell] Re: Marketing Haskell

2009-04-03 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
On Fri, 3 Apr 2009 10:18:17 +0200, Thomas Davie wrote: >On 3 Apr 2009, at 09:25, Benjamin L.Russell wrote: > >>[...] >> >> Or is that a logo of two octopi, one with four arms, and the other >> with three? Oh no, the poor octopi! > >If it's an octopi, surely it should have 3.1415926... arms? Whe

[Haskell] Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: fad 1.0 -- Forward Automatic Differentiation library

2009-04-03 Thread Edward Kmett
Very nice to have! FYI- there is at least one more quantification-based automatic differentiation implementation in Hackage: http://comonad.com/haskell/monoids/dist/doc/html/monoids/Data-Ring-Module-AutomaticDifferentiation.html My implementation is/was focused upon use with monoids and other mo

[Haskell] Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: fad 1.0 -- Forward Automatic Differentiation library

2009-04-03 Thread Edward Kmett
A somewhat tricky concern is that that the extra functionality in question depends on a bunch of primitive definitions that lie below this in the package and the AD engine is used by a layer on top. So moving it out would introduce a circular dependency back into the package or require me to strat

[Haskell] TFM09: Call for Papers (Formal Methods Week, Eindhoven, November 6th 2009)

2009-04-03 Thread J.N. Oliveira
TFM2009 2nd Int. FME Conference on Teaching Formal Methods "Widening Access to Formal Methods" Friday, November 6th 2009 co-located with FM2009 : 16th I