Re: [Haskell-cafe] [haskell-cafe] Some reflections on Haskell

2012-02-17 Thread wren ng thornton
On 2/14/12 11:41 AM, Bardur Arantsson wrote: On 02/14/2012 04:13 PM, Doug McIlroy wrote: Nevertheless, I share Jardine's concern about the central problem. It is hard to find one's way in this ecosystem. It needn't be, as Java illustrates. As a professional Java developer this sounds really

Re: [Haskell-cafe] [haskell-cafe] Some reflections on Haskell

2012-02-16 Thread Christoph Breitkopf
Since people are mentioning how great the Haskell type system is for refactoring, here's one of those wow, that's really great experiences I just had hacking on some Java code in Eclipse. I wanted to remove duplicate code, so I selected one of the duplications and used Refactor-Extract method. To

Re: [Haskell-cafe] [haskell-cafe] Some reflections on Haskell

2012-02-16 Thread A.M.
On 16/02/2012, at 12:21 PM, Christoph Breitkopf wrote: Apart from the IDE matter, I'd also would like to see some sort of rating system on Hackage, or at least some support to choose between the available packages. Indicators might be popularity, actively maintained, age, ... Many

Re: [Haskell-cafe] [haskell-cafe] Some reflections on Haskell

2012-02-15 Thread David Waern
2012/2/15 Aristid Breitkreuz arist...@googlemail.com: In the source file, the Haddock documentation is there, no idea why it doesn't show up. Thanks, this could be a bug in the new Haddock version. We'll look into it. David ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing

Re: [Haskell-cafe] [haskell-cafe] Some reflections on Haskell

2012-02-14 Thread Markus Läll
What about hoogle/hayoo and hackage? On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Doug McIlroy d...@cs.dartmouth.edu wrote: Kevin Jardine notices the full Haskell ecosystem ... is huge, and laments the absence of a sophisticated IDE to help manage it. Being a small-code type, I don't personally enjoy

Re: [Haskell-cafe] [haskell-cafe] Some reflections on Haskell

2012-02-14 Thread Antoine Latter
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 9:13 AM, Doug McIlroy d...@cs.dartmouth.edu wrote: Nevertheless, I share Jardine's concern about the central problem. It is hard to find one's way in this ecosystem.  It needn't be, as Java illustrates.  To my mind Java's great contribution to the world is its library

Re: [Haskell-cafe] [haskell-cafe] Some reflections on Haskell

2012-02-14 Thread Bardur Arantsson
On 02/14/2012 04:13 PM, Doug McIlroy wrote: Nevertheless, I share Jardine's concern about the central problem. It is hard to find one's way in this ecosystem. It needn't be, as Java illustrates. As a professional Java developer this sounds really strange, but maybe I just haven't found it

Re: [Haskell-cafe] [haskell-cafe] Some reflections on Haskell

2012-02-14 Thread Alejandro Serrano Mena
Hi, 2012/2/14 Doug McIlroy d...@cs.dartmouth.edu Kevin Jardine notices the full Haskell ecosystem ... is huge, and laments the absence of a sophisticated IDE to help manage it. Being a small-code type, I don't personally enjoy IDE's, which are undeniably useful in big projects, at the cost

Re: [Haskell-cafe] [haskell-cafe] Some reflections on Haskell

2012-02-14 Thread Aristid Breitkreuz
In the source file, the Haddock documentation is there, no idea why it doesn't show up. Am 15.02.2012 04:00 schrieb Doug McIlroy d...@cs.dartmouth.edu: Markus: What about hoogle/hayoo and hackage? Antoine: Do you have any links to examples that we should imitate? Hackage is notionally

Re: [Haskell-cafe] [haskell-cafe] Some reflections on Haskell

2012-02-14 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
On 15 February 2012 17:55, Aristid Breitkreuz arist...@googlemail.com wrote: In the source file, the Haddock documentation is there, no idea why it doesn't show up. Looks like it's an issue with getting the Haddock markup from another package, though I've usually had this work before... e.g.