Re: [Haskell-cafe] Are there any female Haskellers?

2010-03-28 Thread Richard O'Keefe
On Mar 28, 2010, at 9:52 AM, Luke Palmer wrote: On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Peter Verswyvelen bugf...@gmail.com wrote: So the first computer nerd was a women??!!! ;-) ;-) ;-) Yeah, and she was so attractive that the entire male gender spent the next 50 years trying to impress her.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell-friendly Linux Distribution

2010-03-28 Thread Ketil Malde
Chris Dornan ch...@chrisdornan.com writes: I am choosing a Linux distribution for a production Haskell project and would would normally just go with Debian I think Debian (I use Ubuntu, which inherits its packages) just got a lot better. I upgraded to 10.4 Lucid, and now I have ghc 6.12.1 and

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell-friendly Linux Distribution

2010-03-28 Thread Jason Dagit
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Chris Dornan ch...@chrisdornan.com wrote: Hi, I am choosing a Linux distribution for a production Haskell project and would would normally just go with Debian (pedigree, stability, and of course Haskell Platfom included) but CentOS is in the frame. Are

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell-friendly Linux Distribution

2010-03-28 Thread Gour
On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 23:13:04 -0500 Jeff == Jeff Wheeler j...@nokrev.com wrote: Jeff A bunch of stuff is packaged by dons for Arch; you can see a lot Jeff of links to the Arch packages on Hackage. It might be worth Jeff looking into. +1 for Arch. Sincerely, Gour -- Gour | Hlapicina,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell-friendly Linux Distribution

2010-03-28 Thread Lakshmi Narasimhan
My choice is latest packages available throug package manager and I use Fedora 12 as of now. Fedora 13 is coming out with ghc 6.12 By the way did you find out any packaged rpms for ghc on Centos? I remember a thread from haskell beginners on this where somebody was trying to get ghc installed on

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell-friendly Linux Distribution

2010-03-28 Thread Magnus Therning
On 28/03/10 08:50, Gour wrote: On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 23:13:04 -0500 Jeff == Jeff Wheeler j...@nokrev.com wrote: Jeff A bunch of stuff is packaged by dons for Arch; you can see a lot Jeff of links to the Arch packages on Hackage. It might be worth Jeff looking into. +1 for Arch. Add one

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Testing for valid data

2010-03-28 Thread Jason Dagit
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 2:42 PM, michael rice nowg...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Ketil, Good point, but I think it side-steps the question. Haskell coughs on a data value. Do we grep our data, finding and fixing the offender, or build extensive data tests into our application code? I'm not

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Are there any female Haskellers?

2010-03-28 Thread Jochem Berndsen
Alberto G. Corona wrote: The reasons for the sexual differences in mathematical abilities are different, because math abilities are not a -primary- reason for survival. Tools engineering and mastering is. If this is politically incorrect I beg you pardon, but this is my honest theory about

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell-friendly Linux Distribution

2010-03-28 Thread Mathijs Kwik
As a developer in 3 languages (ruby java professionally, haskell as hobby) I must say I really prefer just managing this manually, separate from the package manager. I'm running ubuntu LTS (8.04) on production servers. I don't want to upgrade a server OS every 6 months, so I really like the more

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Are there any female Haskellers?

2010-03-28 Thread Ketil Malde
Jochem Berndsen joc...@functor.nl writes: Could you point us to any evidence that supports your assumption that there are sexual differences in mathematical abilities? Luce Irigaray? (Amply butcherd by Sokal and Bricmont, or see e.g. http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Luce_Irigaray)

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Are there any female Haskellers?

2010-03-28 Thread Jon Fairbairn
Leon Smith leon.p.sm...@gmail.com writes: On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Jason Dagit da...@codersbase.com wrote:  For some reason it started out as a male dominated field.  Let's assume for cultural reasons.  Once it became a male dominated field, us males  unknowingly made the work and

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Internet game servers in Haskell?

2010-03-28 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Samstag, den 27.03.2010, 10:14 + schrieb Colin Paul Adams: Has anyone ever written a server in Haskell for managing live game-playing (any game) across the internet? I never worked with it or looked at the code, but it seems that the server for hedgewars (A Worms clone) is written

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell-friendly Linux Distribution

2010-03-28 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Sonntag, den 28.03.2010, 09:04 +0100 schrieb Magnus Therning: I have to say it looks like Debian has gotten their act together somewhat when it comes to Haskel development. Many of the reasons for my deserting Debian seem have been taken care of. so, what is missing for you to come

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Are there any female Haskellers?

2010-03-28 Thread Philippa Cowderoy
On 27/03/2010 21:27, Günther Schmidt wrote: Hi guys (and I mean it), so, in short, no female haskellers ... Bare one which sent me an email directly, but it looks like she's not ready to come out of the closet yet. And those of us already named for you. And there're a few others around

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GHC vs GCC

2010-03-28 Thread Jan-Willem Maessen
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 8:16 PM, Roman Leshchinskiy r...@cse.unsw.edu.auwrote: On 28/03/2010, at 01:36, Jan-Willem Maessen wrote: It's worth pointing out that there's a bit of bang-pattern mysticism going on in this conversation (which has not been uncommon of late!). A non-buggy

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Are there any female Haskellers?

2010-03-28 Thread Günther Schmidt
Dear Philippa, display themselves on demand is putting it rather harshly don't you think? I pretty much injected my previous email back into the thread because I felt I asked a simple question and find that people are getting a bit carried away. I am for instance quite certain that Lady Ada

[Haskell-cafe] is anyone familiar with Comprehending Queries by Torsten Grust?

2010-03-28 Thread Günther Schmidt
Hi all, is anyone here familiar with the paper Comprehending Queries by Thorsten Grust? http://kops.ub.uni-konstanz.de/volltexte/1999/312/pdf/312_1.pdf As the paper dates from 1999 I wonder if its content may have been obsoleted by later works or if it still is pretty much current. I ask

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Are there any female Haskellers?

2010-03-28 Thread Jan-Willem Maessen
2010/3/28 Günther Schmidt gue.schm...@web.de Dear Philippa, display themselves on demand is putting it rather harshly don't you think? In the context of an existing, lengthy discussion that displays the ignorance of some of its participants, no. I could easily see reading the discussion

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Are there any female Haskellers?

2010-03-28 Thread Jason Dusek
Am 28. März 2010 07:15 schrieb Jan-Willem Maessen jmaes...@alum.mit.edu: A relatively recent article in CACM made much the same point for CS; particularly noteworthy to me is the rather different proportion of undergrad CS majors in different countries (the US is particularly low):

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GHC vs GCC vs JHC

2010-03-28 Thread Lennart Augustsson
Does anything change if you swap the first two rhss? On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 1:28 AM, Roman Leshchinskiy r...@cse.unsw.edu.au wrote: On 28/03/2010, at 09:47, Lennart Augustsson wrote: It's important to switch from mod to rem.  This can be done by a simple abstract interpretation. Also,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Are there any female Haskellers?

2010-03-28 Thread Christopher Lane Hinson
On Sun, 28 Mar 2010, G?nther Schmidt wrote display themselves on demand is putting it rather harshly don't you think? No. The women in our community are not required to come forth as witnesses on what it's like to be women in our community. They most likely do not want to be under a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Are there any female Haskellers?

2010-03-28 Thread Günther Schmidt
Dear Christopher, Am 28.03.10 18:11, schrieb Christopher Lane Hinson: On Sun, 28 Mar 2010, G?nther Schmidt wrote display themselves on demand is putting it rather harshly don't you think? No. The women in our community are not required to come forth as witnesses on what it's like to be

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Are there any female Haskellers?

2010-03-28 Thread Christopher Lane Hinson
It was probably also uncool to call out a specific woman by name, who did not volunteer for this. Do suggest I did so? I don't recall mentioning anyone by name. No, you didn't. That was someone else. I like haskell, am interested in it, appreciate being in contact with people who do

Re: [Haskell-cafe] chp-plus doesn't install

2010-03-28 Thread Neil Brown
Neil Brown wrote: Colin Paul Adams wrote: I'm getting these errors (ghc 6.10.4 on Linux x86_64): Building chp-plus-1.1.0... [1 of 9] Compiling Control.Concurrent.CHP.Test ( Control/Concurrent/CHP/Test.hs, dist/build/Control/Concurrent/CHP/Test.o ) [2 of 9] Compiling

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Are there any female Haskellers?

2010-03-28 Thread Günther Schmidt
Am 28.03.10 18:51, schrieb Christopher Lane Hinson: It was probably also uncool to call out a specific woman by name, who did not volunteer for this. Do suggest I did so? I don't recall mentioning anyone by name. No, you didn't. That was someone else. I like haskell, am interested in

[Haskell-cafe] Are there any gay haskelleres?

2010-03-28 Thread Günther Schmidt
Hi guys, are there any gay haskellers? ... Since the first one was so much fun ;) Günther ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Are there any female Haskellers?

2010-03-28 Thread Simon Michael
Well said. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] chp-plus doesn't install

2010-03-28 Thread Colin Paul Adams
Neil == Neil Brown nc...@kent.ac.uk writes: Neil That did indeed turn out to be the fix. That will teach me to Neil release a package without remembering to test it on GHC 6.10 Neil first. I've uploaded chp-plus 1.2.0 to Hackage, which should Neil fix this issue (among other

[Haskell-cafe] Are there any male haskellers?

2010-03-28 Thread Günther Schmidt
Hi everyone, are there any male haskellers? I hope this question is not considered inappropriate Günther ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Are there any male haskellers?

2010-03-28 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 07:26:58PM +0200, Günther Schmidt wrote: Hi everyone, are there any male haskellers? I hope this question is not considered inappropriate Gender doesn't belong in pure code, but belongs in a Gon^WMonad. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Group

RE: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell-friendly Linux Distribution

2010-03-28 Thread Chris Dornan
Thanks everyone, Your observations have been most valuable but Mathijs' advice was excellent. You may well want to pick a distribution that supports Haskell in choosing a distribution for general work but for a serious project you in effect build your own Haskell distribution and choose the

[Haskell-cafe] Refactoring of OAuth Library - Need Review

2010-03-28 Thread Diego Souza
Hi, I've done a complete refactoring of oauth library. This new version is incompatible (in terms of interface) with the previous one. An example of use is available here: http://projects.bitforest.org/hoauth/dist/doc/html/hoauth/Network-OAuth.html Probably the major change is that, along the

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell-friendly Linux Distribution

2010-03-28 Thread Ertugrul Soeylemez
Chris Dornan ch...@chrisdornan.com wrote: I am choosing a Linux distribution for a production Haskell project and would would normally just go with Debian (pedigree, stability, and of course Haskell Platfom included) but CentOS is in the frame. Are there any particularly strong reasons for

Re: [Haskell-cafe] is anyone familiar with Comprehending Queries by Torsten Grust?

2010-03-28 Thread Torsten Grust
Günther, feel free to contact me when it comes to questions regarding ``Comprehending Queries.'' Understanding database queries as (specific) functional programs is far from being an obsolete endeavor. Quite the contrary. Think LINQ (Microsoft) or Links (Philip Wadler). Or Kleisli (Limsoon

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Are there any gay haskelleres?

2010-03-28 Thread Keith Sheppard
Hello, I am one. Best Keith 2010/3/28 Günther Schmidt gue.schm...@web.de: Hi guys, are there any gay haskellers? ... Since the first one was so much fun ;) Günther ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Are there any female Haskellers?

2010-03-28 Thread Pekka Enberg
2010/3/28 Günther Schmidt gue.schm...@web.de: This is definately a point where we will continue to disagree. I found myself assuming that there are no female haskellers and wanted to verify it by asking for data. So what exactly is off-topic for this list? Is unsubscribing from the list the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Are there any gay haskelleres?

2010-03-28 Thread Roel van Dijk
Programming in Haskell certainly makes me feel gay. define gay cheery: bright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer; a cheery hello; a gay sunny room; a sunny smile ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Are there any gay haskelleres?

2010-03-28 Thread Fraser Wilson
I'm sure there's some theory about fags being unable to use tools and stuff. It certainly cannot be anything to do with cultural pressure. Perhaps it is easy to mistake a male-dominated field for one that males are intrinsically good at, but really, have a look at the Y chromosome, it does

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Are there any female Haskellers?

2010-03-28 Thread Luke Palmer
2010/3/28 Pekka Enberg penb...@cs.helsinki.fi: 2010/3/28 Günther Schmidt gue.schm...@web.de: This is definately a point where we will continue to disagree. I found myself assuming that there are no female haskellers and wanted to verify it by asking for data. So what exactly is off-topic for

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Are there any female Haskellers?

2010-03-28 Thread Jason Dagit
2010/3/28 Pekka Enberg penb...@cs.helsinki.fi 2010/3/28 Günther Schmidt gue.schm...@web.de: This is definately a point where we will continue to disagree. I found myself assuming that there are no female haskellers and wanted to verify it by asking for data. So what exactly is off-topic

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Refactoring of OAuth Library - Need Review

2010-03-28 Thread Diego Souza
Wrong link. This is the right one: http://projects.bitforest.org/hoauth/dist/doc/html/hoauth/Network-OAuth-Consumer.html ~dsouza On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Diego Souza dso...@bitforest.org wrote: Hi, I've done a complete refactoring of oauth library. This new version is incompatible

[Haskell-cafe] First Ghent FPG Meeting on April 1, 19h: Program and Final Details

2010-03-28 Thread Jeroen Janssen
Dear all, We are nearing the First Ghent Functional Programming Group (Ghent FPG) Meeting, and, judging by the number of people that registered on the google form (28!), it will be quite crowded! The final formal program is as follows: 1. Jeroen Janssen - Welcome and short introduction to FP

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Are there any female Haskellers?

2010-03-28 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 01:14:44PM -0700, Jason Dagit wrote: And as Luke Palmer suggests, perhaps you can ignore/filter these discussions that you do not enjoy :) Or just unsubscribe, like I did. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Are there any gay haskelleres?

2010-03-28 Thread Günther Schmidt
Hi guys, judging by the responses so far it seems that the gay haskellers have more balls than the female haskellers to come out of the closet. Uhm. Günther Am 28.03.10 19:15, schrieb Günther Schmidt: Hi guys, are there any gay haskellers? ... Since the first one was so much fun ;)

[Haskell-cafe] Haskell.org re-design

2010-03-28 Thread Christopher Done
This is a post about re-designing the whole Haskell web site. We got a new logo but didn't really take it any further. For a while there's been talk about a new design for the Haskell web site, and there are loads of web pages about Haskell that don't follow a theme consistent with Haskell.org's,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Are there any gay haskelleres?

2010-03-28 Thread Fraser Wilson
I suppose it's easy to miss the underlying sexism when you aren't affected by it. 2010/3/28 Günther Schmidt gue.schm...@web.de Hi guys, judging by the responses so far it seems that the gay haskellers have more balls than the female haskellers to come out of the closet. Uhm. Günther

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell.org re-design

2010-03-28 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
For the most part, I like it, except for... Christopher Done chrisd...@googlemail.com writes: The colours aren't the most exciting, but someone who's a professional designer could do a proper design. But I like the idea of the site being like this; really busy but not scarily busy. ^^ This.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Are there any female Haskellers?

2010-03-28 Thread Christopher Done
Fran Allen talked about this in Coders at Work (I typed this up quickly so forgive typos): Allen: Recently I realized what was probably the root cause of this: computer science had emerged between 1960 and 1970. And it mostly came out of the engineering schools; some of it came from mathematics.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Are there any gay haskelleres?

2010-03-28 Thread Philippa Cowderoy
On 28/03/2010 21:38, Günther Schmidt wrote: Hi guys, judging by the responses so far it seems that the gay haskellers have more balls than the female haskellers to come out of the closet. Uhm. So we can expect childish comments for not displaying ourselves on demand now? Good to know.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Are there any female Haskellers?

2010-03-28 Thread Pekka Enberg
Hi Luke, On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Luke Palmer lrpal...@gmail.com wrote: It sounds like you are complaining because people are not talking about what you want them to be talking about.  This will happen in large groups. Luke Palmer wrote: It sounds like you are complaining because

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell.org re-design

2010-03-28 Thread Christopher Done
On 28 March 2010 22:00, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.comwrote: ^^ This. It's too boring and depressing with all that grayscale. Why not use the coloured version of the logo ( http://haskell.org/sitewiki/images/a/a8/Haskell-logo-60.png ) and base the colour scheme off that?

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Are there any gay haskelleres?

2010-03-28 Thread Ertugrul Soeylemez
Fraser Wilson blancoli...@gmail.com wrote: I'm sure there's some theory about fags being unable to use tools and stuff. It certainly cannot be anything to do with cultural pressure. Perhaps it is easy to mistake a male-dominated field for one that males are intrinsically good at, but

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Are there any female Haskellers?

2010-03-28 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 10:35:04PM +0200, Matthias Kilian wrote: On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 01:14:44PM -0700, Jason Dagit wrote: And as Luke Palmer suggests, perhaps you can ignore/filter these discussions that you do not enjoy :) Or just unsubscribe, like I did. Tell the truth. You only

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell-friendly Linux Distribution

2010-03-28 Thread Magnus Therning
On 28/03/10 12:53, Joachim Breitner wrote: Hi, Am Sonntag, den 28.03.2010, 09:04 +0100 schrieb Magnus Therning: I have to say it looks like Debian has gotten their act together somewhat when it comes to Haskel development. Many of the reasons for my deserting Debian seem have been taken

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Are there any gay haskelleres?

2010-03-28 Thread Ketil Malde
Günther Schmidt gue.schm...@web.de writes: are there any gay haskellers? Look, Günther, I'll give you credit for trying, but you might as well accept the fact that using Haskell isn't going to get you laid. Which is just as well, since this list is for discussing a certain programming

[Haskell-cafe] Re: is anyone familiar with Comprehending Queries by Torsten Grust?

2010-03-28 Thread Günther Schmidt
Dear Torsten, good grief no, I did not mean that the topic / field was obsolete. In fact most of my posts over the last couple of months are inquiries on this very subject. (Apart from the occasional glitch). Well about EDSL for Relational Algebra. I was very excited when I found your paper

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Are there any gay haskelleres?

2010-03-28 Thread Philippa Cowderoy
On 28/03/2010 22:07, Günther Schmidt wrote: Hi Fraser, hi all, one thing I did notice is the total absence of a sense of humor on this list. The only funny thing that on this list was Don't play with your monads ... Yes, us humourless feminists have clearly poisoned the list as a whole.

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Are there any gay haskelleres?

2010-03-28 Thread Günther Schmidt
Dear Philippa, I love your posts, they are hilarious! Please send some more. Can't wait for your next one. Günther Am 28.03.10 23:06, schrieb Philippa Cowderoy: On 28/03/2010 21:38, Günther Schmidt wrote: Hi guys, judging by the responses so far it seems that the gay haskellers have more

Fwd: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Are there any gay haskelleres?

2010-03-28 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Also some operators are clearly sexist =, - = etc etc. I don´t kmow if the lack of female haskellers is due to this inpudic exhibition of male domination ;) 2010/3/28 Ertugrul Soeylemez e...@ertes.de Fraser Wilson blancoli...@gmail.com wrote: I'm sure there's some theory about fags being

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Are there any gay haskelleres?

2010-03-28 Thread Günther Schmidt
Am 28.03.10 23:25, schrieb Ketil Malde: Günther Schmidtgue.schm...@web.de writes: are there any gay haskellers? Look, Günther, I'll give you credit for trying, but you might as well accept the fact that using Haskell isn't going to get you laid. Which is just as well, since this list is

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell.org re-design

2010-03-28 Thread Don Stewart
This looks great! What are the implementation details of having this go live? * Ashley: would you be able to e.g. install an index.html like this, and hang the wiki under it? * How do we allow editing (by trusted users?) -- Don chrisdone: This is a post about re-designing

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Has Try Haskell! An interactive tutorial in your browser been announced yet?

2010-03-28 Thread Christopher Done
Hi Benjamin, Thanks for testing it and providing a detailed report. I've since done more work on Try Haskell, but not too much. (My job has taken up a very large amount of my time and energy. I am moving to another one currently.) I will address your points just to clear it up and maybe we can

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell.org re-design

2010-03-28 Thread Christopher Done
On 28 March 2010 22:54, Don Stewart d...@galois.com wrote: This looks great! What are the implementation details of having this go live? * Ashley: would you be able to e.g. install an index.html like this, and hang the wiki under it? * How do we allow editing (by trusted users?)

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell.org re-design

2010-03-28 Thread Ashley Yakeley
Christopher Done wrote: On 28 March 2010 22:54, Don Stewart d...@galois.com wrote: This looks great! What are the implementation details of having this go live? * Ashley: would you be able to e.g. install an index.html like this, and hang the wiki under it? * How do we allow

[Haskell-cafe] darcs hacking sprint 4 report

2010-03-28 Thread Eric Y. Kow
Hi everybody, Here's our report from ZuriHac. It's been also posted to the Darcs blog with a couple of photos stolen from Johan's blog, some Darcs rebase scribbling and a screenshot of Darcsden's intriguing fork-tracking feature...

Re: [Haskell-cafe] which version is in the platform

2010-03-28 Thread Jeremy Shaw
On a related note, I wanted to find out what version of parsec is included in the platform, but that version is not included on this page: http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/contents.html The package links just say 'parsec' and link to the lastest version on hackage. - jeremy On Mon, Mar 22,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell-friendly Linux Distribution

2010-03-28 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Magnus Therning wrote: Well, maybe I should qualify that a bit. There were a few issues with Haskell in Debian in the past. Most noticeably the lack of packages in the standard repos. This seems to have been addressed. The other thing, that bit me at the time, and witch really pushed me

Re: [Haskell-cafe] which version is in the platform

2010-03-28 Thread Don Stewart
jeremy: On a related note, I wanted to find out what version of parsec is included in the platform, but that version is not included on this page: http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/contents.html The package links just say 'parsec' and link to the lastest version on hackage. The

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell.org re-design

2010-03-28 Thread Christopher Done
On 28 March 2010 23:32, Ashley Yakeley ash...@semantic.org wrote: There was a big competition for the logo, with this blind Condorcet voting and everything, and this is the shape that was picked. But it kind of ran out of steam before colours were decided upon. So I just copied the colours

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell-friendly Linux Distribution

2010-03-28 Thread Jason Dusek
2010/03/28 Ertugrul Soeylemez e...@ertes.de However, as always there is a catch.  Gentoo is a source distribution, which means that you compile the entire system from scratch.  On modern computers this is quite fast, but sometimes it can hammer on your patience. To be fair, Gentoo has a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] which version is in the platform

2010-03-28 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
Don Stewart d...@galois.com writes: The best way to find out is to look at the 'cabal spec' http://code.haskell.org/haskell-platform/haskell-platform.cabal Which, of course, mentions Haddock 2.7.2 in passing, to the confusion of all... ;-) From which all truth derives. Any thoughts on

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell-friendly Linux Distribution

2010-03-28 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Mathijs Kwik wrote: As a developer in 3 languages (ruby java professionally, haskell as hobby) I must say I really prefer just managing this manually, separate from the package manager. I'm running ubuntu LTS (8.04) on production servers. But this would mean that an environment for a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] which version is in the platform

2010-03-28 Thread Don Stewart
ivan.miljenovic: Don Stewart d...@galois.com writes: The best way to find out is to look at the 'cabal spec' http://code.haskell.org/haskell-platform/haskell-platform.cabal Which, of course, mentions Haddock 2.7.2 in passing, to the confusion of all... ;-) To the confusion of all,

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell.org re-design

2010-03-28 Thread Ashley Yakeley
Christopher Done wrote: On 28 March 2010 23:32, Ashley Yakeley ash...@semantic.org wrote: There was a big competition for the logo, with this blind Condorcet voting and everything, and this is the shape that was picked. But it kind of ran out of steam before colours were decided upon. So I just

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell.org re-design

2010-03-28 Thread Don Stewart
ashley: Christopher Done wrote: On 28 March 2010 23:32, Ashley Yakeley ash...@semantic.org wrote: There was a big competition for the logo, with this blind Condorcet voting and everything, and this is the shape that was picked. But it kind of ran out of steam before colours were decided upon.

[Haskell-cafe] Can everyone please update your code to the latest QuickCheck, Parsec, and HaXml this week? Thanks!

2010-03-28 Thread Jeremy Shaw
Hello, I keep running into issues where I want to use some version of parsec, quickcheck, haxml, etc, in my code, but my code links against a different third party library (e.g. network) which uses a different version of the library (e.g., parsec) than what I want to use, and that makes cabal

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell.org re-design

2010-03-28 Thread Christopher Done
On 29 March 2010 00:08, Don Stewart d...@galois.com wrote: On 28 March 2010 23:25, Ashley Yakeley ash...@semantic.org wrote: Is the front page a wiki page? By the looks of it, yes. If you go to 'Edit this page', you can see that it's made out of wikimedia templates. But that's just a guess.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Can everyone please update your code to the latest QuickCheck, Parsec, and HaXml this week? Thanks!

2010-03-28 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
Jeremy Shaw jer...@n-heptane.com writes: I keep running into issues where I want to use some version of parsec, quickcheck, haxml, etc, in my code, but my code links against a different third party library (e.g. network) which uses a different version of the library (e.g., parsec) than what I

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Sugar for function application

2010-03-28 Thread Ertugrul Soeylemez
Tillmann Rendel ren...@informatik.uni-marburg.de wrote: Of course, this would need some type hackery à la PrintF to make set accept multiple arguments, and the proliferation of such type hackery may seem unfortunate. On the other hand, the hackery could possibly be encapsulated in a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Are there any gay haskelleres?

2010-03-28 Thread Jason Dusek
I am replying off list. I hope others will do the same. -- Jason Dusek ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

[Haskell-cafe] parsec and multiple simultaneous token types

2010-03-28 Thread Jeremy Shaw
Hello, I have some input which is divided up into segments like this: [foo, hi, there, world] And I want to use parsec to parse the segments. I am looking for a way to be able to use Char parsers on each segment, but also parse the list of segments as a whole. I have an implementation which

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Can everyone please update your code to the latest QuickCheck, Parsec, and HaXml this week? Thanks!

2010-03-28 Thread Jeremy Shaw
In the case of happstack, the happstack-util library provided a function that converted QuickCheck unit tests into HUnit unit tests. happstack-util exported this so that the other happstack-* packages could use it as well. We did not actually have the unit tests themselves enabled by default.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Can everyone please update your code to the latest QuickCheck, Parsec, and HaXml this week? Thanks!

2010-03-28 Thread Ivan Miljenovic
On 29 March 2010 11:11, Jeremy Shaw jer...@n-heptane.com wrote: We should not simply make the unit tests be a compile time flag in the .cabal, because there is no way for the happstack parent package to depend on the version of happstack-data (for example) which has the unit tests enable.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Are there any gay haskelleres?

2010-03-28 Thread Günther Schmidt
Dear Jason, did you send this message before it was finished? Günther Am 29.03.10 01:58, schrieb Jason Dusek: I am replying off list. I hope others will do the same. -- Jason Dusek ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell.org re-design

2010-03-28 Thread Jeff Wheeler
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Ashley Yakeley ash...@semantic.org wrote: No, you're right, they're ugly colours IMO. I originally mocked up the logo that we chose, so I'm partial to the grayish-blue that I used. Others probably work, but I think the combination of blues in the one that's used

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Are there any gay haskelleres?

2010-03-28 Thread Tom X. Tobin
2010/3/28 Günther Schmidt gue.schm...@web.de: Dear Philippa, I love your posts, they are hilarious! Please send some more. Can't wait for your next one. Can this crap please die, and die now? I don't give a damn who is female, or who is gay, or who is transgendered or of a particular racial

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Are there any gay haskelleres?

2010-03-28 Thread ajb
G'day all. Am 28.03.10 23:25, schrieb Ketil Malde: Look, Günther, I'll give you credit for trying, but you might as well accept the fact that using Haskell isn't going to get you laid. For what it's worth, I got away with naming a daughter Miranda. Cheers, Andrew Bromage

[Haskell-cafe] How can I parameterize the Candidate?

2010-03-28 Thread Duane Johnson
Hello, How can I parameterize the type of the following data class so that any type can be a Candidate? type Candidate = String data Poll = Poll [Candidate] [Ballot] My initial thought was to simply put a type variable in place of Candidate, but that clearly won't work: data Poll =

Re: [Haskell-cafe] How can I parameterize the Candidate?

2010-03-28 Thread Ivan Miljenovic
On 29 March 2010 13:13, Duane Johnson duane.john...@gmail.com wrote: How can I parameterize the type of the following data class so that any type can be a Candidate?   data Poll = Poll [Candidate] [Ballot] data Poll a = Poll [a] [Ballot]   data Poll = Poll [a] [Ballot] So close... --

Re: [Haskell-cafe] How can I parameterize the Candidate?

2010-03-28 Thread Duane Johnson
Ah, just a character away. Thank you. Duane On Mar 28, 2010, at 9:21 PM, Ivan Miljenovic wrote: On 29 March 2010 13:13, Duane Johnson duane.john...@gmail.com wrote: How can I parameterize the type of the following data class so that any type can be a Candidate? data Poll = Poll

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Are there any female Haskellers?

2010-03-28 Thread wren ng thornton
Jon Fairbairn wrote: Another (provocative) observation is that most of the women programmers I've known were good at it and thought they might not be, but most of the men claimed to be good at it but were not. I've observed this too, but it's a bit droll. Let: p = proportion of people who

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Are there any female Haskellers?

2010-03-28 Thread Jason Dagit
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 8:29 PM, wren ng thornton w...@freegeek.org wrote: Jon Fairbairn wrote: Another (provocative) observation is that most of the women programmers I've known were good at it and thought they might not be, but most of the men claimed to be good at it but were not.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Are there any female Haskellers?

2010-03-28 Thread wren ng thornton
Günther Schmidt wrote: One thing that I keep hearing is I'm not trying to be offensive. I think it's easy to get caught up on not being offensive so that we don't make any progress. It's impossible not to offend people -- but it is possible to take the time to listen and correct problematic

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Are there any female Haskellers?

2010-03-28 Thread wren ng thornton
Jason Dagit wrote: On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 8:29 PM, wren ng thornton w...@freegeek.org wrote: Jon Fairbairn wrote: Another (provocative) observation is that most of the women programmers I've known were good at it and thought they might not be, but most of the men claimed to be good at it