[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: March 27, 2006

2006-03-28 Thread Donald Bruce Stewart
Haskell Weekly News: March 27, 2006 Greetings, and thanks for reading issue 30 of HWN, a weekly newsletter covering developments in the Haskell community. Each Monday, new editions are posted to [1]the Haskell mailing list and to [2]The Haskell Sequence. [3]RSS i

[Haskell] ANN: HDBC 0.99.2

2006-03-28 Thread John Goerzen
Hello, I'm pleased to (at long last) announce the release of HDBC version 0.99.2, along with 0.99.2 versions of all database backends. If things go well, after a few weeks of testing, this version will become HDBC 1.0.0. HDBC is a multi-database interface system for Haskell -- more on it below.

[Haskell] Re: unicode/internalization issues

2006-03-28 Thread John Meacham
On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 03:22:38PM +0400, Bulat Ziganshin wrote: > 3. Unicode support in I/O routines, i.e. ability to read/write UTF-8 > encoded files and files what use other Unicode byte encodings: not > implemented in any compiler, afaik, but there are 3rd-party libs: > Streams library, New I/O

Re: [Haskell] Haskell as a disruptive technology?

2006-03-28 Thread Immanuel Litzroth
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > G'day all. > > Quoting Immanuel Litzroth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> I have created programs that fill an array with the first 100 >> prime numbers using erathostenes sieve. >> I have done this in lisp, c++, ocaml and haskell. Lisp and c++ win >> hands down, being a