I just upgraded my ubuntu laptop to 13.04 and haskell platform is gone!!
http://askubuntu.com/questions/286764/how-to-install-haskell-platform-for-ubuntu-13-04
What is the current status on this?
Is 13.10 going to correct this?
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On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Vagif Verdi vagif.ve...@gmail.com wrote:
13.04 has packages for ghc 7.6.2
It is easy to install latest haskell platform though.
Just run this script: https://github.com/chrisprobst/ubuntu-raring-haskell
I was hoping that something a little less painful than
On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 9:18 AM, Vagif Verdi vagif.ve...@gmail.com wrote:
That will give you only ghc 7.6.2. If you want latest haskell-platform,
source compile is the only option. And btw it is not THAT painful :)
You run the script, wait 2-3 minutes and tada!
Ok so someone is very confused
On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 9:02 AM, Conal Elliott co...@conal.net wrote:
I'm polling to see whether there are will and expertise to reboot graphics
and GUIs work in Haskell. I miss working on functional graphics and GUIs in
Haskell, as I've been blocked for several years (eight?) due to the
On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Richard A. O'Keefe o...@cs.otago.ac.nzwrote:
On 2/09/2013, at 3:55 PM, Rustom Mody wrote:
On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 5:43 AM, Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:
A slogan I have programmed by since I first met C and recognised
how vastly superior to PL/I
On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 5:43 AM, Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:
A slogan I have programmed by since I first met C and recognised
how vastly superior to PL/I it was for text manipulation _because_
it didn't have a proper string type is Strings are Wrong!.
I wonder if you notice the irony in your
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Ketil Malde ke...@malde.org wrote:
On a more serious note, I accept that Int (and other limited precision
numbers) is a fact of life, and sometimes useful for performance
reasons.
I would have liked, however, to have a compiler option or some other way
to
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 6:35 PM, Johannes Waldmann
waldm...@imn.htwk-leipzig.de wrote:
I tried using lilypond ( http://www.lilypond.org/ )
for typesetting of sheet music.
While the output looks nice, the input language IMHO is quite horrible,
I use musescore.
Its got 3 modes on entry
a.
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 6:37 AM, Richard A. O'Keefe o...@cs.otago.ac.nz wrote:
On 20/08/2013, at 3:43 AM, Kyle Miller wrote:
On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 8:04 PM, Richard A. O'Keefe o...@cs.otago.ac.nz
wrote:
The argument for twos-complement, which always puzzled me, is that the other
systems
On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 7:35 AM, Richard A. O'Keefe o...@cs.otago.ac.nzwrote:
On 3/06/2013, at 6:58 PM, Carter Schonwald wrote:
If the Int type had either of these semantics by default, many many
performance sensitive libraries would suddenly have substantially less
compelling performance.
I give ghc release schedule to google and get at/near the top:
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Status/Releases
whose title is Release plans for ghc 6.12
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We are offering a MOOC on haskell :
https://moocfellowship.org/submissions/the-dance-of-functional-programming-languaging-with-haskell-and-python
Full Announcement on beginners list :
http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/beginners/2013-May/012013.html
One question that I have been grappling with in
Today cabal suddenly started giving me errors that libgmp.so.3 is not found
Moving away my old .cabal makes it work again
Any explanations?
[I am on debian testing. I think the causing factor was that debian
switched major versions recently.
There were a lot of updates... Nothing that looked
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 4:13 AM, Richard A. O'Keefe o...@cs.otago.ac.nzwrote:
It's Backus, people. He was never the god of wine.
I cannot detect any trace of Backus's FP in Haskell at all.
FP is strict. Haskell is not.
FP is typeless. Haskell is highly typeful.
FP does not name formal
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 9:40 AM, Rustom Mody rustompm...@gmail.com wrote:
- in 1992 it was gofer, the predecessor of haskell
- in 2001 it was scheme.
Sorry typo: 2001 it was python
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http
Please see
http://pyfound.blogspot.in/2013/02/python-trademark-at-risk-in-europe-we.html
I cannot say that I understand whats really going on
The one thing that I get is that there was some minor neglect a decade or
more ago.
http://blog.languager.orgMaybe there are things that Haskell needs to
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 4:17 AM, Nehal Patel nehal.a...@gmail.com wrote:
A few months ago I took the Haskell plunge, and all goes well... -- but I
really want to understand the paradigms as fully as possible, and as it
stands, I find myself with three or four questions for which I've yet to
On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Casey Basichis caseybasic...@gmail.comwrote:
I'm not sure what you mean.
I would imagine popular success for either would be circumstantial and
have little to do with their actual ability and more to do with the
opportunities they pursue and the cultural
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Casey Basichis caseybasic...@gmail.comwrote:
Hi Dmitry,
Thanks for the links. I've been through the 24 Days of Hackage, but I
think its time to run through them again now that I'm a little more
familiar with everything.
Why do you think browsing function
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Junior White efi...@gmail.com wrote:
Sadly! I like hugs because it can embed in my game client as lua. For game
logic language, I think the following properties are important:
1. Portable, works on pc,macosx,ios,android even flash or web.
2. Intepret, for quick
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 9:41 PM, Casey Basichis caseybasic...@gmail.comwrote:
That book Mathsemantics sounds like something I should read, would you
recommend it?
Well its quite a favourite of mine, if that counts as a recommendation…
Your point occurred to me the other day when measuring
On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 3:38 AM, Casey Basichis caseybasic...@gmail.comwrote:
I just ordered Mathsemantics for a hefty $2.10.
Your article's were an enjoyable read and very informative. I'll dig more
into you blog tonight.
I've read the Great Good book, Haskell school of music, and I'm
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Casey Basichis caseybasic...@gmail.comwrote:
Hi,
I'm working on a project in Haskell and C++ where the former is the brains
and the latter is for UI, interaction etc.
I've read this
http://www.altdevblogaday.com/2012/04/26/functional-programming-in-c/ and
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 5:32 PM, Junior White efi...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for your reply! I must learn more to fully understand what's going
on inside the list comprehension.
But when I frist learn Haskell, it says sequence doesn't matter, but now
it is a big matter, can compiler do
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Thiago Negri evoh...@gmail.com wrote:
Is it possible to play the generated chords as a melody by itself, without
the original music over it?
Super work!
I was meaning to ask something similar -- can we get out something of the
music that chordify has reverse
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Jan Stolarek jan.stola...@p.lodz.plwrote:
Dnia piątek, 18 stycznia 2013, Petr P napisał:
for learning Hindley-Milner type inference algorithm I could recommend to
undergraduate students? The original paper is harder to understand, I'm
looking for something
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 1:28 AM, Daniel Díaz Casanueva
dhelta.d...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello, Haskell Cafe folks.
My programming life (which has started about 3-4 years ago) has always
been in the functional paradigm. Eventually, I had to program in Pascal and
Prolog for my University (where I
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 7:30 AM, Rustom Mody rustompm...@gmail.com wrote:
Ive been collecting material regarding (confusions around) OO. Its far
from complete but the references may be useful, eg
- the Rees list on the different things that OO means to different people
- the fundamental
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 8:26 PM, Kim-Ee Yeoh k...@atamo.com wrote:
Hi David, it looks like Rustom's aware that haskell's not lisp. What he
really wants methinks is a way to suppress type classes altogether! That or
a NoOverloadedNumerals extension.
-- Kim-Ee
I'm not really sure about
In haskell, we have
Prelude :t 4
4 :: Num a = a
Prelude
This may be nice in its generality but it makes it hard (for me at least)
when teaching a beginners course to teach polymorphic vs monomorphic
types. The above leads to even more 'advanced' results like this:
Prelude :t [[1],2]
[[1],2] ::
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 1:48 AM, Roman Cheplyaka r...@ro-che.info wrote:
* Rustom Mody rustompm...@gmail.com [2012-12-26 20:12:17+0530]
So is there any set of flags to make haskell literals less polymorphic?
Yes, there is!
% ghci -XRebindableSyntax
GHCi, version 7.6.1: http
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 11:46 PM, Badi' Abdul-Wahid
abdulwah...@gmail.comwrote:
Just my two cents: Nix is great, Modules is not perfect, but it is good.
I think that Nix solves a lot of the problems, but will likely take a
while to be adopted.
I'm still exploring Nix and NixOS, but I have to
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 11:25 PM, Ertugrul Söylemez e...@ertes.de wrote:
Janek S. fremenz...@poczta.onet.pl wrote:
In the recent months there was a lot of dicussion about cabal,
dependency hell and alike. After reading some of these discussions
there is a question I just have to ask:
Thanks Doug for reminding me of points that I had forgotten (and which are
new)
I will insert them into the blog
My comments inline
On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 10:01 PM, Doug McIlroy d...@cs.dartmouth.edu wrote:
Yes... CS academics delivers less than it could/should;
and whatever this delivery
On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 11:04 PM, Malcolm Wallace malcolm.wall...@me.comwrote:
On 9 Dec 2012, at 16:31, Doug McIlroy wrote:
In fact the FP community came late to some of these, just as
programming languages at large came late to garbage collection.
Lazy evaluation--at the heart of
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 5:33 AM, Doug McIlroy d...@cs.dartmouth.edu wrote:
Matlab exploits them heavily (though represented as doubles).
Not sure what you are referring to
I had in mind Matlab's frequent use of a Boolean array as
a characteristic function describing some property of
On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 7:04 AM, Jerzy Karczmarczuk
jerzy.karczmarc...@unicaen.fr wrote:
For me, opposing experience and education is simply silly.
Probably more than 70% of all people would learn much faster on their own
than at school. But, learn WHAT? :
1. Probably less than 1% would
On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 7:31 PM, Joerg Fritsch frit...@joerg.cc wrote:
This is probably a very basic question.
I am working on a DSL that eventuyally would allow me to say:
import language.cwmwl
main = runCWMWL $ do
eval (isFib::, 1000, ?BOOL)
I have just started to work on the
There was a recent discussion on the python list regarding maximum line
length.
It occured to me that beautiful haskell programs tend to be plump (ie have
long lines) compared to other languages whose programs are 'skinnier'.
My thoughts on this are at
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Iustin Pop ius...@google.com wrote:
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 05:20:20PM +0530, Rustom Mody wrote:
There was a recent discussion on the python list regarding maximum line
length.
It occured to me that beautiful haskell programs tend to be plump (ie
have
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Malcolm Wallace malcolm.wall...@me.comwrote:
It is kind of ironic that the wide code examples in the blog post are
wrapped at 65 chars by the blog formatting.
Regards,
Malcolm
Well that goes to underscore a couple of points:
1. The fixed 80 char width
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Colin Adams colinpaulad...@gmail.comwrote:
I'm not viewing on a narrow device, and I see the wrapped (and the whole
post confined to the centre of the screen).
I certainly don't use an 80-column limit any more. I use the rule:
A function must be completely
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Alexander Solla alex.so...@gmail.comwrote:
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 6:52 AM, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.comwrote:
On 10/29/2012 07:50 AM, Rustom Mody wrote:
There was a recent discussion on the python list regarding maximum line
length.
It occured
On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 2:21 AM, Henk-Jan van Tuyl hjgt...@chello.nlwrote:
L.S.,
I thought you might be interested to know, that I have translated one of
prof. Edsger W. Dijkstra's writings to English[0]. I will submit this
translation to the E. W. Dijkstra Archive of the University of
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 8:18 PM, Tillmann Rendel
ren...@informatik.uni-marburg.de wrote:
Hi,
Kristopher Micinski wrote:
Everyone in the Haskell cafe probably has a secret dream to give the
best five minute monad talk.
(1) Most programming languages support side effects. There are
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 11:53 PM, C K Kashyap ckkash...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi folks,
I have the opportunity to make a presentation to folks (developers and
managers) in my organization about Haskell - and why it's important - and
why it's the only way forward.
You (and we) may believe that
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 9:44 PM, Gregg Lebovitz glebov...@gmail.com wrote:
Rustom,
I am drafting a document that captures some of the social norms from the
comments on this list, mostly from Brandon and Wren. I have captured the
discussion about module namespace and am sorting out
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 7:29 PM, Gregg Lebovitz glebov...@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/23/2012 10:17 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote:
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 17:16, Gregg Lebovitz glebov...@gmail.comwrote:
On 4/23/2012 3:39 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote:
The other dirty little secret that is
On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 9:29 PM, Rosario Borda
rosario.bo...@sinervis.comwrote:
Hi All,
Is there a simple method for embed haskell in other languages, like latex?
An example in quasiquotation notation:
\documentclass{article}
\title{Hello World}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
Hello
On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 8:20 PM, Alexander Solla alex.so...@gmail.comwrote:
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 8:39 PM, MigMit miguelim...@yandex.ru wrote:
On 22 Dec 2011, at 06:25, Alexander Solla wrote:
Denotational semantics is unrealistic.
And so are imaginary numbers. But they are damn
2011/12/22 Gábor Lehel illiss...@gmail.com
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 8:20 PM, Robert Clausecker fuz...@gmail.com
wrote:
Image you would create your own language with a paradigm similar to
Haskell or have to chance to change Haskell without the need to keep any
compatibility. What stuff
Is the haskell-mode that comes out of the box with emacs (v 23.3) the one
you folk use or do you use something more specific/uptodate? How to find
out? [There should be a haskell-mode-version...]
To the folks from the (hesitating) vi-camp: Whatever you use, please take
time to familiarize
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 7:40 PM, Yves Parès limestr...@gmail.com wrote:
Hey,
What do you mostly use for debugging?
Simple calls to Debug.Trace.trace? Hpc? Hood?
I also wonder about 'type-debugging'
Using ghci:
For a top level expression:
- if it is not compiling I can put in (or remove) a
Does anyone give me a little comparison of these?
What would all my requirements be? Not sure... these seem important for me
1. Need to sandbox not just haskell-projects but ghc (different
compilations/versions) itself
2. Stability of the (sandboxing) tool
3. Correcting the deficiencies of cabal
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 8:54 PM, Ozgur Akgun ozgurak...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi.
On 27 October 2011 13:49, dokondr doko...@gmail.com wrote:
Please advise on Haskell libraries to compare trees in textual
representation.
I need to compare both structure and node contents of two trees, find
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com wrote:
On 25 October 2011 16:02, Rustom Mody rustompm...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com wrote:
On 24 October 2011 13:51, Rustom Mody
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 10:17 PM, Stephen Tetley
stephen.tet...@gmail.comwrote:
Rustom Mody rustompm...@gmail.com writes:
I remember (vaguely) a 'live page' ie where one could enter (into the
browser) changes to the diagrams code and see the results immediately.
Is that page
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com wrote:
On 24 October 2011 13:51, Rustom Mody rustompm...@gmail.com wrote:
How does diagrams compare with graphviz? If this is an inappropriate
(type-wrong?) question thats ok :-) Its just that when I last
Thanks. This is attractive.
I remember (vaguely) a 'live page' ie where one could enter (into the
browser) changes to the diagrams code and see the results immediately.
Is that page there? (Or am I mixing up with something else?)
How does diagrams compare with graphviz? If this is an
I need some help finding my way around the various generics libraries.
My usage scenario is -- at least to start with -- the ASTs of programming
languages.
It appears to me that there are two generations of generics -- earlier there
was generic haskell and strafunski
Now there is uniplate and
I tried to move from debian testing to sid and got the message that a
whole load of libghc**'s would be removed.
Are more recent ones lined up?
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There are other instabilities (sid is after all unstable) so staying
with testing for now.
On Mar 7, 5:59 pm, rustom rustompm...@gmail.com wrote:
I tried to move from debian testing to sid and got the message that a
whole load of libghc**'s would be removed.
Are more recent ones lined up
On Aug 3, 10:10 am, Ivan Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com wrote:
On 3 August 2010 15:02, rustom rustompm...@gmail.com wrote:
I tried to install pivotal
According to the site I must do:
ghc --make Main -fglasgow-exts -package plugins
I get
cant satisfy package plugins
Which
I tried to install pivotal
According to the site I must do:
ghc --make Main -fglasgow-exts -package plugins
I get
cant satisfy package plugins
I believe the more general problem is that one has to choose between
'direct' cabal installs and using debian's packages. At least this is
the same
On Aug 1, 12:40 pm, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com
wrote:
rustom rustompm...@gmail.com writes:
However I do have an issue regarding debian packaging.
At first I installed ghc
This brought in
ghc6 ghc6-doc libbsd-dev libgmp3-dev libgmpxx4ldbl
I also added haskell98
Do most people who work with haskell use emacs/vi/eclipse or something
else??
Personal Note: I used gofer some 15 years ago. At that time I hacked
up a emacs mode (I did not know of any then) along with some changes
to gofer to have gofer inside emacs rather than vi inside gofer.
Things have
On Jul 31, 7:21 pm, Joachim Breitner m...@joachim-breitner.de wrote:
Hi,
Am Samstag, den 31.07.2010, 15:37 +0530 schrieb Rustom Mody:
Do most people who work with haskell use emacs/vi/eclipse or something
else??
Personal Note: I used gofer some 15 years ago. At that time I hacked
up
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