Re: [Haskell-cafe] Toy application advice wanted

2004-05-07 Thread Frank Atanassow
On May 6, 2004, at 6:59 PM, S. Alexander Jacobson wrote: I think someone wrote a book about multi-media apps in Haskell (I've seen a chapter somewhere from Conal Elliot) but I don't remember what it was. Probably Paul Hudak's The Haskell School of Expression. http://www.haskell.org/soe/ I had

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Toy application advice wanted

2004-05-07 Thread Peter G. Hancock
Sound on linux tends to center around the jack sound architecture. This is a demon for connecting audio and midi gadgets as it were by jack-leads. From a brief look, it seems very callback oriented. It seems to be highly thought of by knowledgable audio types, and the bee's knees for low

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Toy application advice wanted

2004-05-07 Thread Alastair Reid
It could be fun to figure out ways of writing jack-clients and plugins in Haskell. Would it be difficult, or stupid? Are callbacks to Haskell from C a problem? Callbacks to Haskell are very easy using the ffi extension supported by Hugs, GHC and NHC. If components are standalone apps,

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

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Toy application advice wanted

2004-05-04 Thread David Roundy
On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 11:27:41PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyway, I'm starting to ramble, but I talked to a friend who has similar feelings but is actually pretty good at Common Lisp. He suggested I refocus my energies, and I agree: instead of biting off more than I can chew, and

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Toy application advice wanted

2004-05-04 Thread Ben Lippmeier
Mike, I'm evaluating several high-level languages as development vehicles for our next suite of applications. .. just code some really simple problems. Like the Sieve of Eratosthenes, in all three languages. Or a simple publish/subscribe framework with a master state holder and many slaves. Or

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Toy application advice wanted

2004-05-03 Thread mikeb
On Tue, 4 May 2004, Bill Walsh wrote: I am amazed that you can even think of doing anything in a week. I have been at it for at least 15 years: one project; one dead set proof-of-concept . Well I'm sure you're doing something much more useful/worthwhile than I! =) I understand that the