Re: [Haskell-cafe] Toy application advice wanted

2004-05-05 Thread Vincenzo aka Nick Name
On Wednesday 05 May 2004 04:46, Ben Lippmeier wrote: http://www.haskell.org/libraries and look at how many seperate GUI libraries there are - I counted 16 - then ask what made the developer for the 16th one choose to start over. The fact that the 16th one is a wxwindows binding justifies this

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Toy application advice wanted

2004-05-05 Thread Frank Atanassow
On May 3, 2004, at 5:52 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got an interesting task this week for my job. (Note that this will undoubtably last for longer than a week). I'm evaluating several high-level languages as development vehicles for our next suite of applications. The languages I'm

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Toy application advice wanted

2004-05-05 Thread Andrei de A. Formiga
I'm finding wxHaskell very nice, and a wxWidgets binding is something many other advanced languages don't have (even OCaml). The only downside is having a 'Hello World' GUI application with 7 Mb... but it runs quite well and smooth once it's loaded. --- []s, Andrei de A. Formiga ---

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Toy application advice wanted

2004-05-05 Thread Lyle Kopnicky
David Roundy wrote: I think that sounds like a good idea (not doing a GUI just yet) but would recommend that perhaps you could do something pretty impure in terms of file or directory browsing. That wouldn't involve going beyond the standard libraries, but might give you some idea of the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Toy application advice wanted

2004-05-05 Thread mikeb
On Wed, 5 May 2004, Frank Atanassow wrote: Frankly, I think it's completely unrealistic to expect to be able to fairly evaluate Haskell in 32 hours. As you noted yourself, Scheme and Erlang, being strict, are much closer to conventional programming languages than Haskell is, so it's easier to

[Haskell-cafe] HDirect, [unique], troubles again!

2004-05-05 Thread Vincenzo aka Nick Name
In my quest for a fuse binding for Haskell, which I really need at the moment, I have the following definition working: module HSFuse { interface stat{}; typedef int getattrT([string] char *,stat); typedef struct fuseOps { [ref] getattrT * getattr; } fuseOps; void