[Haskell-cafe] why are trading/banking industries seriously adopting FPLs???

2011-03-25 Thread Vasili I. Galchin
Hello, I am very curious about the readiness of trading and banking industries to adopt FPLs like Haskell: http://talenteze.catsone.com/careers/index.php?m=portala=detailsjobOrderID=466095 I currently work in the computer security(intrusion detection). My colleagues are totally ignorant

Re: [Haskell-cafe] why are trading/banking industries seriously adopting FPLs???

2011-03-25 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Vasili I. Galchin wrote: I am very curious about the readiness of trading and banking industries to adopt FPLs like Haskell: http://talenteze.catsone.com/careers/index.php?m=portala=detailsjobOrderID=466095 I currently work in the computer security(intrusion detection). I worked in

Re: [Haskell-cafe] why are trading/banking industries seriously adopting FPLs???

2011-03-25 Thread Neil Davies
Trustworthiness It provides the means of constructing systems that can be reasoned about, in which the risks of mistakes can be assessed, in which concurrency can be exploited without compromising those properties. I once sat on a plane with a guy who ran a company that made software to

Re: [Haskell-cafe] why are trading/banking industries seriously adopting FPLs???

2011-03-25 Thread Ketil Malde
Vasili I. Galchin vigalc...@gmail.com writes: I am very curious about the readiness of trading and banking industries to adopt FPLs like Haskell: Yes, I've noticed that, too. And it goes both ways - it's an industry of which the computer science crowd tends to be unaware as well. Some

Re: [Haskell-cafe] threading question for ghc 7.0.2

2011-03-25 Thread oliver mueller
you are right that i need to fix the FFI problems. but coming back to the threading stuff i do in my haskell code: do i really need to use the threaded runtime here? from the ghc-docs for the -threaded flag: Note that you do not need -threaded in order to use concurrency; the single-threaded

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: clash-0.1.3.0 (Functional Hardware Descriptions)

2011-03-25 Thread Bin Jin
Hello, Can you give some brief notes on the new introduced clock-related stuff like Comp? Thanks --Bin Jin On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 1:43 AM, Christiaan Baaij christiaan.ba...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I am pleased to announce an incremental update to CLaSH, version 0.1.3.0. CLaSH can

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Multiplate 0.0.1

2011-03-25 Thread Balázs Endrész
Hi all, I made a little extension that makes it a bit easier to work with Multiplate, there's a detailed explanation here: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/multiplate-simplified However, there's still some biolerplate that could be eliminated but I can't seem to do it nicely. When writing a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] why are trading/banking industries seriouslyadopting FPLs???

2011-03-25 Thread Claus Reinke
I am very curious about the readiness of trading and banking industries to adopt FPLs like Haskell: .. Why are are trading/banking diving into FPLs? Some possible reasons have been given, but to keep things in perspective, you might want to consider that it isn't just FPLs. Smalltalk, for

Re: [Haskell-cafe] why are trading/banking industries seriously adopting FPLs???

2011-03-25 Thread Vasili I. Galchin
Hi Neil, Can you go into more detail about the intrusion detection software you wrote, e..g how it used iteratees and DSLs(even not directly impl. in Haskell)?? Thanks, Vasili On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 3:09 AM, Neil Davies semanticphilosop...@gmail.comwrote: Trustworthiness It provides

[Haskell-cafe] help with dynamic load

2011-03-25 Thread Rob Nikander
Hi all, I'm trying to use the 'plugins' package. Since I already posted to stackoverflow I'll just link to that. I posted a simple program that I thought would work, but mostly doesn't. Any pointers, appreciated.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] why are trading/banking industries seriously adopting FPLs???

2011-03-25 Thread Albert Y. C. Lai
On 11-03-25 03:08 AM, Vasili I. Galchin wrote: I am very curious about the readiness of trading and banking industries to adopt FPLs like Haskell: Not only FPL and not only Haskell, but also descendents of APL such as J. Generally also any innovation. Why are they willing to try out

Re: [Haskell-cafe] why are trading/banking industries seriously adopting FPLs???

2011-03-25 Thread Tom Murphy
Why can they assess the risk and the probable benefits of trying out another innovation and can contain the risk? Because they can do that of almost anything. They are surviving investors. Trying out another innovation is just another investment, not unlike trying out another stock, another

[Haskell-cafe] package cache being out of date

2011-03-25 Thread Wolfgang Jeltsch
Hi, I have a freshly installed Haskell Platform 2010.2.0.0 on Windows 7. When I run ghc-pkg list, I get the following message (besides the expected package info): WARNING: cache is out of date: C:/Program Files (x86)/Haskell Platform/2010.2.0.0\lib\package.conf.d\package.cache use

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: clash-0.1.3.0 (Functional Hardware Descriptions)

2011-03-25 Thread Christiaan Baaij
Hi, The 'Comp' type is an automata arrow. In version 0.1.2.5 it was called 'Stat' [1], and was actually a newtype. The definition of Comp is: data Comp i o = C {    domain :: Set.Set Clock  , exec     :: Clock - i - (o, Comp i o)  } If you don't care about clock domains you can use the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] help with dynamic load

2011-03-25 Thread Bernie Pope
On 26 March 2011 05:57, Rob Nikander rob.nikan...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to use the 'plugins' package.  Since I already posted to stackoverflow I'll just link to that.  I posted a simple program that I thought would work, but mostly doesn't.   Any pointers, appreciated.

[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: version 0.7 of monad-parallel, monad-coroutine and SCC

2011-03-25 Thread Mario Blažević
Packages monad-parallel [1], monad-coroutine [2] and SCC [3] have been upgraded on Hackage to version 0.7. The monad-parallel library defines two Monad subclasses, MonadParallel and MonadFork, that enable some monadic computations to be executed in parallel and their results combined. The

[Haskell-cafe] hxt validation outside of IO?

2011-03-25 Thread cafe-haskell
Hello. Is it possible to validate XML trees against a RELAX NG schema outside of IO, using hxt? All of the functions I can see use an IOSArrow. I'm not sure what I'm missing. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org

[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: enumerator 0.4.8

2011-03-25 Thread John Millikin
- Enumerators are an efficient, predictable, and safe alternative to lazy I/O. Discovered by Oleg Kiselyov, they allow large datasets to be processed