Re: [Haskell-cafe] OT: Monad co-tutorial: the Compilation Monad

2010-12-18 Thread Andrew Coppin
On 17/12/2010 12:59 AM, Gregg Reynolds wrote: This is a little off-topic, since it isn't specifically about Haskell, but since Haskell is the home of the monad tutorial it isn't completely irrelevant. The monad tutorial genre is well-known; it's often written somebody who has just learned the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] OT: Monad co-tutorial: the Compilation Monad

2010-12-18 Thread Max Bolingbroke
On 17 December 2010 12:45, Larry Evans cppljev...@suddenlink.net wrote: Am I doing something wrong or has somehow community.haskell.org been hijacked somehow? Er, it works for me. Maybe *your* DNS has been hijacked? I know lots of Windows viruses play tricks like this... Max

Re: [Haskell-cafe] OT: Monad co-tutorial: the Compilation Monad

2010-12-18 Thread Larry Evans
On 12/17/10 07:07, Daniel Fischer wrote: On Friday 17 December 2010 13:45:38, Larry Evans wrote: WARNING: I clicked on that link in my thunderbird news reader and got a page which was something about registering domains. It was nothing about Neil's slides. I then tried directing my Firfox

Re: [Haskell-cafe] OT: Monad co-tutorial: the Compilation Monad

2010-12-18 Thread Neil Mitchell
Er, it works for me. Maybe *your* DNS has been hijacked? I know lots of Windows viruses play tricks like this... No, the DNS for haskell.org was down yesterday - if you try again today (after the DNS caches have cleared) it will work. Thanks, Neil

Re: [Haskell-cafe] OT: Monad co-tutorial: the Compilation Monad

2010-12-18 Thread Thomas Schilling
The haskell.org domain expired. It's being worked on. On 17 December 2010 12:45, Larry Evans cppljev...@suddenlink.net wrote: On 12/17/10 01:32, Max Bolingbroke wrote: [snip] I can't speak for your monad based approach, but you may be interested in Neil Mitchell's Haskell DSL for build

Re: [Haskell-cafe] OT: Monad co-tutorial: the Compilation Monad

2010-12-17 Thread Arnaud Bailly
There is also Nix (http://nixos.org/) which is based on somewhat related ideas. On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 8:32 AM, Max Bolingbroke batterseapo...@hotmail.com wrote: On 17 December 2010 00:59, Gregg Reynolds d...@mobileink.com wrote: My real goal is to think about better language for software

Re: [Haskell-cafe] OT: Monad co-tutorial: the Compilation Monad

2010-12-17 Thread Larry Evans
On 12/17/10 01:32, Max Bolingbroke wrote: [snip] I can't speak for your monad based approach, but you may be interested in Neil Mitchell's Haskell DSL for build systems, called Shake: http://community.haskell.org/~ndm/downloads/slides-shake_a_better_make-01_oct_2010.pdf WARNING: I clicked on

Re: [Haskell-cafe] OT: Monad co-tutorial: the Compilation Monad

2010-12-17 Thread Daniel Fischer
On Friday 17 December 2010 13:45:38, Larry Evans wrote: WARNING: I clicked on that link in my thunderbird news reader and got a page which was something about registering domains. It was nothing about Neil's slides. I then tried directing my Firfox browser to:

[Haskell-cafe] OT: Monad co-tutorial: the Compilation Monad

2010-12-16 Thread Gregg Reynolds
This is a little off-topic, since it isn't specifically about Haskell, but since Haskell is the home of the monad tutorial it isn't completely irrelevant. The monad tutorial genre is well-known; it's often written somebody who has just learned the concept trying to explain it, often in highly

Re: [Haskell-cafe] OT: Monad co-tutorial: the Compilation Monad

2010-12-16 Thread Max Bolingbroke
On 17 December 2010 00:59, Gregg Reynolds d...@mobileink.com wrote: My real goal is to think about better language for software build systems, since what we have now is pretty weak, in my view. I can't speak for your monad based approach, but you may be interested in Neil Mitchell's Haskell