Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell showcase in 5 minutes

2012-02-29 Thread Yves Parès
Yes, but in 5 minutes I take it they won't have time to ask questions before your presentation is over. I haven't thought about parallel computing but it's one of the many assets of the language. The problem IMHO with STM is that it relies on too many Haskell elements to be grasped in 5 minutes.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell showcase in 5 minutes

2012-02-29 Thread Arnaud Bailly
Great ! Good to have some support. Hope you will like it, I think I got something worthwhile that fits in 5 minutes flat. On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Yves Parès yves.pa...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, but in 5 minutes I take it they won't have time to ask questions before your presentation is

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Fwd: Now Accepting Applications for Mentoring Organizations for GSoC 2012

2012-02-29 Thread Ryan Newton
Is there any official way that mentors should sign up to become part of the org? For one thing I heard a rumor that bigger orgs look better from Google's end. -Ryan On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Johan Tibell johan.tib...@gmail.comwrote: Hi all, Anyone interested in acting as an admin

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Fwd: Now Accepting Applications for Mentoring Organizations for GSoC 2012

2012-02-29 Thread Johan Tibell
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 6:29 AM, Ryan Newton rrnew...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any official way that mentors should sign up to become part of the org? For one thing I heard a rumor that bigger orgs look better from Google's end. Once haskell.org is registered as an organization you need

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell showcase in 5 minutes

2012-02-29 Thread Albert Y. C. Lai
On 12-02-27 04:36 PM, rocon...@theorem.ca wrote: In less than 5 minutes I can solve NP-Complete problems in restaurant orders: http://www.reddit.com/comments/24p2c/xkcd_does_anyone_else_feel_compelled_to_solve_this/c24pc5 and right in haskell-cafe:

[Haskell-cafe] FreeSect -- generalised sections syntax extension

2012-02-29 Thread Ras Far
Hello, I bit premature perhaps but I wanted to post it on a leap day... http://fremissant.net/freesect Thanks for eyebloom on #haskell for motivating me to finally implement an old idea. Thanks to the rest on #haskell for doing their best to talk me out of it. ;) I make no claims regarding

[Haskell-cafe] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 217

2012-02-29 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to the 217th issue of the HWN, a newsletter covering developments in the Haskell community during the week of February 19 to 25, 2012. You can find the HTML version of this issue at: http://contemplatecode.blogspot.com/2012/02/haskell-weekly-news-issue-217.html Quotes of the Week *

[Haskell-cafe] ANN: stm-chans 1.3.1

2012-02-29 Thread wren ng thornton
-- stm-chans 1.3.1 The stm-chans package offers a collection of channel types, similar to Control.Concurrent.STM.TChan but with additional features. --

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Does somebody know about these functions?

2012-02-29 Thread wren ng thornton
On 2/28/12 1:25 PM, Brent Yorgey wrote: On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 06:06:25PM +0100, Johan Holmquist wrote: inter :: (a - a - b) - [a] - [b] inter f [] = [] inter f l = map (uncurry f) $ zip l (tail l) I've never seen this function defined anywhere, but it looks nice. I've used it a few

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Does somebody know about these functions?

2012-02-29 Thread Tony Morris
On 01/03/12 14:40, wren ng thornton wrote: Of course, you can simplify the implementation by: inter f xs = zipWith f xs (tail xs) inter f = zipWith f * tail -- Tony Morris http://tmorris.net/ ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list

[Haskell-cafe] need help with monad transformers

2012-02-29 Thread Alexander V Vershilov
Hello. I'm trying to add monad stack into network-conduit, and everything works except some details [1]. I've run runReaderT $ runTCPServer (wrapper around runResourceT) and inside conduit I want to run writer to gather results of inner computation. In inner computation I want to use IO, data