Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Making Haskell more open

2005-11-14 Thread Krasimir Angelov
2005/11/13, Gour [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sven Panne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: * DocBook XML can be transformed into a very rich collection of output formats: XHTML, HTML Help, DVI, PS, PDF, FO, plain text, etc. etc. txt2tags has the following backends: HTML, XHTML, SGML, LaTeX, Lout, man,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Making Haskell more open

2005-11-14 Thread Gour
Sven Panne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Great! If you have already an XML editor, start writing DocBook now! :-) No, I won't :-) More seriously: This is again a useless tools discussion, we *are* using DocBook currently and it works fine. The real problem is not the XML format and any XML

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Making Haskell more open

2005-11-14 Thread Wolfgang Jeltsch
Am Sonntag, 13. November 2005 22:22 schrieb Gour: [...] But don't forget, as it was already stated, get the whole working-chain ready for authoring in Docbook is not at all ready and for one not proficient in emacs with SGML mode it is very difficult to write texts with so many tags. You

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Making Haskell more open

2005-11-14 Thread Ketil Malde
Gour wrote: Nobody said that DocBook does not work fine. However let me quote SPJ's message: quote However, I still wonder if there are things we could do that would make it easier for people to contribute. Here are two concrete suggestions: ^^^ - Make it possible for people to add

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Making Haskell more open

2005-11-14 Thread Ketil Malde
Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote: Hmm, MediaWiki already supports the concept of discussion pages. Yes, I know. Perhaps I was less than lucid, so to clarify: But I doubt that it's a good thing to maintain DocBook sources via a wiki. I think it would be best to keep the documentation in DocBook

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Making Haskell more open

2005-11-14 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 11:03 +0100, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote: Am Sonntag, 13. November 2005 22:05 schrieb Gour: [...] The question is if HTML is sufficient. In addition, HTML is at some points not well thought-out. True, but considering the present situation, it is all what is

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Making Haskell more open

2005-11-14 Thread Wolfgang Jeltsch
Am Sonntag, 13. November 2005 22:05 schrieb Gour: [...] The question is if HTML is sufficient. In addition, HTML is at some points not well thought-out. True, but considering the present situation, it is all what is required. I doubt this. How, for example, do you implement code

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Making Haskell more open

2005-11-14 Thread Wolfgang Jeltsch
Am Montag, 14. November 2005 10:49 schrieb Ketil Malde: [...] I think it would be ideal to provide the documentation on the web as now, but linking to wikified talk pages. Something like Wikipedia, (since MediaWiki was brought up) but perhaps with restricted write access to the feature

[Haskell-cafe] Download binary file

2005-11-14 Thread Jorge Guerra
Hi everyone, I'm trying to download a binary file (an mp3) from a given URL, at the moment I've found two possible solutions: 1) Use the Network.Socket library from ghc to get the file. The problem with this is that I'll have to deal with the HTTP protocol (done), and read the Handle in binary

[Haskell-cafe] warning HEAP: creating uncommited range

2005-11-14 Thread Joel Reymont
Folks, Does this ring a bell with anyone? logon.exe is a binary that I built with -O -debug and ran from within gdb on Windows. warning HEAP:[logon.exe] warning: Failing creating uncommitted range (7fbfc000 for 5000) Thanks, Joel -- http://wagerlabs.com/

[Haskell-cafe] Two questions: lazy evaluation and Church-Rosser

2005-11-14 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
This is surely a dumb question, but where can I find a proof of the Church-Rosser theorem? Now, a totally(?) separate question: I've been trying to do some background reading on lambda calculus, and have found discussions of strict evaluation strategies (call-by-value and call-by-name)

[Haskell-cafe] Semantics for FP?

2005-11-14 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
First of all, I'm very new to Haskell (but very impressed). I remember having a lot of fun with Lisp as an undergrad, and recently started working with Scheme (and having a great time at it), and so I decided to look into Haskell. Like everyone else, I was totally impressed by the two line