Many thanks to everyone who has registered their opinion on
strict vs lazy pattern matching in the poll I'm conducting.
If you plan to do so but haven't yet, there's still time:
I shall freeze the results tomorrow.
For more information see
Applications from readers of the Haskell list are encouraged!
Umea University announces a Lectureship in Computing Science.
Umea University in northern Sweden is a young and dynamic university with
more than 22,000 students and 3,900 employees. The Department of
Having participated in many previous Haskell design efforts, I must say
that John's WWW-based system is MUCH better than straight email. With
email you have 16 different threads that are really hard to keep track
of; the tree-based approach keeps things better organized. A newsgroup
isn't as
Fergus Henderson wrote (to the Haskell Mailing List):
[..]
But it is difficult to track the ongoing discussion, because
- the interface is slowww (they don't call it the "World Wide Wait"
for nothing)
I tried it yesterday and had no complaints about the performance.
- it is
On 11 Dec, Paul Hudak wrote:
I suppose that one improvement that you'd like and that I agree would be
an improvement is the ability to mark messages as read.
With Netscape Navigator (at least on Linux) you can set an option not
to expire visited links. This means they change colour and stay
Fergus Henderson says:
But it is difficult to track the ongoing discussion, because
- the interface is slowww (they don't call it the "World Wide Wait"
for nothing)
- it is difficult to keep track of which parts you have read already
and which
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