[Haskell-cafe] RE: Design for 2010.2.x series Haskell Platform site (Don Stewart)

2010-07-18 Thread Niemeijer, R.A.
Is it just me, or does aligning [OSX,Win,Linux] `zip` [Comprehensive, Robust, CuttingEdge] send the wrong message... Yeah, I noticed that too when designing it, but at the time it didn't bother me too much. I do see how it could confuse some people though, so I've made a design alternative

[Haskell-cafe] RE: Design for 2010.2.x series Haskell Platform site (Don Stewart)

2010-07-17 Thread Niemeijer, R.A.
Here's my take on the new design: Screenshot: http://imgur.com/9LHvk.jpg Live version: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/623671/haskell_platform_redesign/index.htm___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org

RE: [Haskell-cafe] RE: Design for 2010.2.x series Haskell Platform site (Don Stewart)

2010-07-17 Thread Niemeijer, R.A.
From: Christopher Done [chrisd...@googlemail.com] Sent: 17 July 2010 19:23 To: Niemeijer, R.A. Cc: haskell-cafe@haskell.org Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] RE: Design for 2010.2.x series Haskell Platform site (Don Stewart) O, I like it! Nice one

[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: StrictBench 0.1 - Benchmarking code through strict evaluation

2009-06-08 Thread Niemeijer, R.A.
Hello everyone, In the last month or so, I've found myself using the following snippet a lot: import Control.Parallel.Strategies import Test.BenchPress bench 1 . print . rnf This snippet fully evaluates a value and prints how long it took to do so. I regularly use it to see where the

[Haskell-cafe] Slow documentation generation on Hackage

2009-06-08 Thread Niemeijer, R.A.
Hello everyone. Last night I uploaded my first Hackage library with documentation (StrictBench). I learned that it takes somewhere between 2 and 8 hours for the link to the documentation to become active. This is confusing for first-time package authors (I went to #haskell to ask what I had

RE: [Haskell-cafe] Slow documentation generation on Hackage

2009-06-08 Thread Niemeijer, R.A.
. Allbery KF8NH [mailto:allb...@ece.cmu.edu] Sent: maandag 8 juni 2009 10:41 To: Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH Cc: Niemeijer, R.A.; haskell-cafe@haskell.org Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Slow documentation generation on Hackage On Jun 8, 2009, at 04:36 , Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: On Jun 8, 2009

[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: HPong-0.1.2: A simple OpenGL Pong game based on GLFW

2009-04-23 Thread Niemeijer, R.A.
About two days ago the beta version of the Haskell Platform was released. Since it comes with an OpenGL library, it is now trivially easy to start making OpenGL programs with Haskell. To test this, I decided to make a simple Pong clone for two reasons: * To experiment with making an OpenGL

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Utrecht Haskell Compiler (UHC) -- first release

2009-04-20 Thread Niemeijer, R.A.
data EShow = forall a. Show a = EShow a data E t = forall a. E (a-t) a smallPrint_ t = concatMap (\f- f t) [show . foo, show . bar, show . baz] Yeah, I am aware of these solutions, but like Dan says: but first-class existentials are still desirable because introducing a new type for

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Utrecht Haskell Compiler (UHC) -- first release

2009-04-19 Thread Niemeijer, R.A.
* Experimental language extensions, some of which have not been implemented before. Does anybody know if there are any plans to incorporate some of these extensions into GHC - specifically the existential typing ? I would love to be able to use existential typing without having to give up

RE: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Utrecht Haskell Compiler (UHC) -- first release

2009-04-19 Thread Niemeijer, R.A.
...@gmail.com] Sent: 19 April 2009 22:07 To: Niemeijer, R.A. Cc: haskell-cafe@haskell.org Subject: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Utrecht Haskell Compiler (UHC) -- first release Hello R.A., Sunday, April 19, 2009, 11:46:53 PM, you wrote: Does anybody know if there are any plans to incorporate some

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Looking for the fastest Haskell primes

2009-04-16 Thread Niemeijer, R.A.
Heinrich Apfelmus wrote: +1 except that exporting the potentially infinite list of primes is problematic in that it may become a memory leak. I'd suggest to export two versions primes :: [Integer] primes' :: () - [Integer] for casual (i.e. throwaway program to solve a Project Euler

[Haskell-cafe] RE: [Announce] primes

2009-04-16 Thread Niemeijer, R.A.
Sebastian Fischer wrote: I am pleased to announce the package 'primes' that implements lazy wheel sieves for efficient, purely functional generation of prime numbers in Haskell. The implementation is reasonably efficient. The query primes !! 100 15485867 answers after a few

[Haskell-cafe] Looking for the fastest Haskell primes algorithm

2009-04-14 Thread Niemeijer, R.A.
Today I happened to need a large list of prime numbers. Obviously this is a well-known problem, so I figured there would be something on Hackage that I could use. Surprisingly, there isn't, or if there is it's not easy to find. Searching for prime or primes on Hackage reveals nothing. Searching

[Haskell-cafe] Making the pointfree package work with cabal

2009-02-27 Thread Niemeijer, R.A.
Today I was very happy to discover the pointfree package, since lambdabot unfortunately doesn't work on Windows. The package works just fine, but the installation process is less than ideal. cabal install pointfree doesn't work and to install it manually you have to add containers and array to