[Haskell-cafe] Reflections on Haskell and ICFP Contest 2009

2009-06-29 Thread Rafael Gustavo da Cunha Pereira Pinto
Hi All, As the ICFP 2009 contest (http://www.icfpcontest.org) approaches its end, I decided to write down some thoughts I had while trying. On Friday I downloaded the task (http://www.icfpcontest.org/task-1.9.pdf), read it for a while, and, since my goal is to finish by Xmas, went to the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Reflections on Haskell and ICFP Contest 2009

2009-06-29 Thread minh thu
Hi Rafael, 2009/6/29 Rafael Gustavo da Cunha Pereira Pinto rafaelgcpp.li...@gmail.com: Hi All, As the ICFP 2009 contest (http://www.icfpcontest.org) approaches its end, I decided to write down some thoughts I had while trying. On Friday I downloaded the task

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Reflections on Haskell and ICFP Contest 2009

2009-06-29 Thread Rafael Gustavo da Cunha Pereira Pinto
Hi Tuh2009/6/29 minh thu not...@gmail.com First step solved. (BTW: I am attaching the first version to this e-mail. I will upload to Hackage upon completion, when getIEEE754float64le and putIEEE754float64le functions are done!) Indeed, I found the binary format a difficulty for haskell.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Reflections on Haskell and ICFP Contest 2009

2009-06-29 Thread Lanny Ripple
When you get bored or stumped with the problem you might pass your time with Orbiter [http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/]. Or you could just use all the orbital mechanics math from the documentation. :) Enjoy, -ljr Rafael Gustavo da Cunha Pereira Pinto wrote: Hi All, As the ICFP 2009

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Reflections on Haskell and ICFP Contest 2009

2009-06-29 Thread Rafael Gustavo da Cunha Pereira Pinto
2009/6/29 Lanny Ripple la...@cisco.com When you get bored or stumped with the problem you might pass your time with Orbiter [http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/]. Or you could just use all the orbital mechanics math from the documentation. :) Enjoy, -ljr That's cool... I'll try it