RE: Haskell and the NGWS Runtime

2000-08-04 Thread Brent Fulgham
> > Weird, nobody mentioned neither NetBSD nor OpenBSD... > > CS people are weird. :-) > > I consider myself a CS person and I run NetBSD on all my machines. > And I'm also weird. > I'm weird, but not a true 'CS' person. I run Linux -- do I need to move to NetBSD? -Brent

Re: Haskell and the NGWS Runtime

2000-08-04 Thread Lennart Augustsson
Eduardo Nahum Ochs wrote: > > > Why have any other computer when you can have a Mac? > > > > > > Mine runs: > > > DVD Movies > > > MacOS > > > JVM > > > Playstation games > > > Windows 95 > > > Windows 2000 (a bit slugglish) > > > and could run: > >

Re: Haskell and the NGWS Runtime

2000-08-04 Thread Eduardo Nahum Ochs
> > Why have any other computer when you can have a Mac? > > > > Mine runs: > > DVD Movies > > MacOS > > JVM > > Playstation games > > Windows 95 > > Windows 2000 (a bit slugglish) > > and could run: > > Linux (but I have no use for it at pre

Re: Tackling the Awkward Squad

2000-08-04 Thread Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
Fri, 4 Aug 2000 08:42:16 -0700 (PDT), Richard Uhtenwoldt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pisze: > and I'd like to hear what Marcin thinks, too: is the IO monad > outside the beautiful core of Haskell? Some things are best expressed functionally, others - imperatively. Many things can be done either way. It'

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2000-08-04 Thread Richard
there exists a 'web interface' to the old messages to this list. I want the old messages in one big file, eg, a tarfile or a mail folder in mbox format or such, so I can grep them. I already have the traffic since Feb 15, 2000. if you can provide me with such a thing, let me know. (logistics: I

Tackling the Awkward Squad

2000-08-04 Thread Richard Uhtenwoldt
Simon Peyton-Jones tell us of his latest paper: > Tackling the Awkward Squad: monadic I/O, concurrency, exceptions, > and foreign-language calls in Haskell. > > http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/papers/marktoberdorf.ps.gz > >This 40-page tutorial focuses on explaining the "

Re: Haskell and the NGWS Runtime

2000-08-04 Thread Lennart Augustsson
> Why have any other computer when you can have a Mac? > > Mine runs: > DVD Movies > MacOS > JVM > Playstation games > Windows 95 > Windows 2000 (a bit slugglish) > and could run: > Linux (but I have no use for it at present) I notice that y

Re: Haskell and the NGWS Runtime

2000-08-04 Thread Nigel Perry
We're drifting a bit off Haskell here, but... At 10:57 am +1000 4/8/00, Kevin Glynn wrote: >I don't believe this says anything about support for other OS's. I >think the devices here are hardware, (PCs, handhelds, phones, fridge >interfaces, ...) Of course Microsoft believes that some day, very

RE: Haskell and the NGWS Runtime

2000-08-04 Thread Carsten Kehler Holst
A few comments on this (stuff after the line beneath): The C implementation isn't really that inefficient. A factor of log(n) in average of course a factor of n i worst case. This doesn't change when using a lazy language! because of the nature of quicksort. As a matter of fact you have to have

Re: Formatting doubles

2000-08-04 Thread Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
Fri, 4 Aug 2000 09:23:00 +1000 (EST), Timothy Docker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pisze: > Is there a means of formatting doubles in Haskell with the precision > flexibilty of printf? The show method seems to only print the first > few decimal places, and showGFloat in the numeric module seems to only >