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

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Proposal to incorporate Haskell.org

2011-05-10 Thread Tom Murphy
Q: Does this mean that my Haskell project must now be covered by a copyleft licence such as GPL? A: No, but Haskell projects using haskell.org resource should use an Open Source licence http://www.opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical. Should == must? Would this apply to

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Status of Haskell + Mac + GUIs graphics

2011-05-18 Thread Tom Murphy
I still haven't found any way to do GUIs or interactive graphics in Haskell on a Mac that isn't plagued one or more of the following serious problems: * Incompatible with ghci, e.g., fails to make a window frame or kills the process the second time one opens a top-level window, * Goes

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Status of Haskell + Mac + GUIs graphics

2011-05-18 Thread Tom Murphy
On 5/18/11, Donn Cave d...@avvanta.com wrote: Quoth =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jurri=EBn_Stutterheim?= j.stutterh...@me.com, ... So here's my (perhaps slightly provoking) question: do we need to care at all about good GUI toolkits being available? Web applications, especially with an HTML 5 front-end,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Status of Haskell + Mac + GUIs graphics

2011-05-18 Thread Tom Murphy
My conclusion was that GLFW-b (on hackage) is the best we have right now. I think we could do even better than the C libraries out there by writing the GLUT/GLFW/etc implementation purely in Haskell. We already have x11 and gtk bindings for the linux support. We have win32 api bindings for

Re: [Haskell-cafe] wxHaskell on Mac (Was: Status of Haskell + Mac + GUIs graphics)

2011-05-18 Thread Tom Murphy
The tricky bits are that you have to 1. install wxWidgets by hand, being sure to enable Unicode and to compile a 32 bit version: arch_flags=-arch i386 ./configure CFLAGS=$arch_flags\ CXXFLAGS=$arch_flags\ CPPFLAGS=$arch_flags\

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Status of Haskell + Mac + GUIs graphics

2011-05-18 Thread Tom Murphy
On 5/18/11, Jurriën Stutterheim j.stutterh...@me.com wrote: Regarding 3: I was not implying that Haskell should be used only for replacing JS. Far from it. I was just saying that we need a solid way to generate JS from Haskell so that we can profit even more from Haskell's type safety and not

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Status of Haskell + Mac + GUIs graphics

2011-05-18 Thread Tom Murphy
On 5/18/11, Manuel M T Chakravarty c...@cse.unsw.edu.au wrote: Nevertheless, there are good reasons to develop native applications (especially on the Mac with its user-base spoiled by high-end UX). Luckily, the choice of toolkit is trivial in this case. For Mac OS, we need a Haskell-Cocoa

Re: [Haskell-cafe] *GROUP HUG*

2011-05-24 Thread Tom Murphy
Firstly, I would definitely like to second the group hug! I'd say best learning community on the net, that I know of. On 5/24/11, Ketil Malde ke...@malde.org wrote: The point is that at face value, being rude and arrogant may drive away naive questions, but is much more likely to result in

[Haskell-cafe] Erlang's module discussion

2011-05-27 Thread Tom Murphy
Hi All, I sure love Hackage, but there's a very interesting discussion going on, on the Erlang mailing list, about completely restructuring the module-model. Before you dismiss it as crazy, know that the topic was brought up by Joe Armstrong, one of the creators of the language. Here's

Re: [Haskell-cafe] *GROUP HUG*

2011-06-01 Thread Tom Murphy
How about this: myFoldr :: (a - b - b) - b - [a] - b myFoldr f z xs = foldl' (\s x v - s (x `f` v)) id xs $ z Cheers, Ivan Great! Now I really can say Come on! It's fun! I can write foldr with foldl! ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Proposal: remove Stability from haddock documentation on hackage

2011-06-08 Thread Tom Murphy
On 6/7/11, James Cook mo...@deepbondi.net wrote: [...] The name of the field could be better, though. On first exposure, people tend to think stability: experimental or stability: unstable means the package is likely to crash (For those who don't know, it means the API is likely to change in

[Haskell-cafe] Best Linux Distro for =

2011-06-18 Thread Tom Murphy
Hi List, If my choice of Lunix distro depended 100% on its solidness as a Haskell devel platform (I am), what would you all recommend? Thanks for your time, Tom ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Best Linux Distro for =

2011-06-19 Thread Tom Murphy
On 6/19/11, Arlen Cuss cel...@sairyx.org wrote: In no particular order, the following seem to have good Linux support: Gentoo, Arch, Fedora and Debian (I think Testing). Please allow me to register my amusement at the idea of a distribution with good Linux support. :D I was very surprised

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell *interpreter* on iPad? (Scheme and Ocaml are there)

2011-06-19 Thread Tom Murphy
On 6/18/11, Alexander Solla alex.so...@gmail.com wrote: Since the iPhone OS is pretty much OS X for ARM, and GHC apparently now supports cross-compilation, you can compile GHC for iOS. Can you provide a link for info? I don't understand how this would be done. Thanks Tom

[Haskell-cafe] toSql and fromSql, for Algebraic Data Type

2011-06-24 Thread Tom Murphy
Hi *, The title is self-explanatory. I'd like to store information from an algebraic data type in an SQL database, but the type signature of toSql (toSql :: Data.Convertible.Base.Convertible a SqlValue = a - SqlValue) doesn't make sense to me. How is this done (how do I make an

[Haskell-cafe] View Thunk Evaluation

2011-06-26 Thread Tom Murphy
Hi All, Is there a way to determine whether a thunk was evaluated during code's execution? Thanks, Tom ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] View Thunk Evaluation

2011-06-27 Thread Tom Murphy
in a special color. On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 9:22 PM, Tom Murphy amin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All,     Is there a way to determine whether a thunk was evaluated during code's execution? Thanks, Tom ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Installation Failed: Haskell Platform 2011.2.0.1-i386 for OS X

2011-06-28 Thread Tom Murphy
On 6/28/11, Jason Dagit dag...@gmail.com wrote: I'd try asking on StackOverflow. I think the people who know the answer might be watching there instead of here. Really? I had thought that everyone who was on SO was on here also. Tom ___

[Haskell-cafe] HaskellDB DB Layout Description

2011-07-09 Thread Tom Murphy
Hi, I've found good explanations of the HaskellDB combinators, but I can't find good information about how to correctly define the database layout. Can anyone point me to a resource, or give a quick example? Thanks! Tom ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal uninstall

2011-07-09 Thread Tom Murphy
Seconded. This would have been very useful to me many times. I tried forwarding this to cabal-de...@haskell.org (Cabal development discussion), but it's a members-only list. Can someone in the in-crowd pass along the suggestion? Thanks, Tom On 7/9/11, Andrew Pennebaker

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Call for GUI examples - Functional Reactive Programming

2011-07-10 Thread Tom Murphy
Oh! I have a good, small (single-purpose; reusable), useful one! A text field which tab-completes words or phrases from a dictionary. Haskeline provides useful (non-FRP) for implementing this, but it seems like FRP could handle this in an interesting way. Tom On 7/10/11, Heinrich Apfelmus

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Network.Html simpleTable fonts

2011-07-17 Thread Tom Murphy
Here's the description of simpleTable: http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/xhtml/3000.2.0.1/doc/html/Text-XHtml-Table.html (note the attribute lists) and here's a working example, for a light at the end of the tunnel: import Network.CGI import Text.XHtml main :: IO () main = runCGI $

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Network.Html simpleTable fonts

2011-07-17 Thread Tom Murphy
] ourTable' ourTable' = map (map lineToHtml) [[Jay, Jay, Jay], [Leno, -Z, Dilla]] ourStyle = style (stringToHtml body { font-size: 50px }) ! [thetype text/css] On 7/17/11, Tom Murphy amin...@gmail.com wrote: Here's the description of simpleTable: http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/xhtml

[Haskell-cafe] Cloud Haskell

2011-07-22 Thread Tom Murphy
Is anyone using Cloud Haskell yet? I'm really excited by the possibilities. Tom ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cloud Haskell

2011-07-22 Thread Tom Murphy
As described in Towards Haskell in the Cloud: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers/parallel/ Tom On Jul 22, 2011 11:01 AM, Antoine Latter aslat...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Tom Murphy amin...@gmail.com wrote: Is anyone using Cloud Haskell yet? I'm

[Haskell-cafe] XCode Dependency for HP on Mac

2011-07-26 Thread Tom Murphy
This may sound ignorant because, well, it is ignorant: I know very little about the underlying mechanics here. Installing the Haskell Platform currently requires XCode developer tools. To get XCode on my 10.6 machine, I... [*** begin ranty details (skippable) ... was told I could get a free

Re: [Haskell-cafe] XCode Dependency for HP on Mac

2011-07-26 Thread Tom Murphy
On 7/27/11, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com wrote: Installing the Haskell Platform currently requires XCode developer tools. To get XCode on my 10.6 machine, I... My understanding is that it's about $5 (though I seem to recall hearing that they recently made it free), but I

Re: [Haskell-cafe] XCode Dependency for HP on Mac

2011-07-27 Thread Tom Murphy
On 7/27/11, Richard O'Keefe o...@cs.otago.ac.nz wrote: A quick web search for Mac OS X gcc binary turned up http://hpc.sourceforge.net/index.php with binary releases of GCC 4.6 for Lion and Snow Leopard. This requires Developer Tools, but that isn't XCode, and it's on the OS X DVD.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] XCode Dependency for HP on Mac

2011-07-27 Thread Tom Murphy
On Jul 27, 2011 3:30 AM, Sean Leather leat...@cs.uu.nl wrote: To get XCode on my 10.6 machine, I... ... will check out the related discussion: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/89745 I remember this thread from last month, but several of the details have changed

Re: [Haskell-cafe] XCode Dependency for HP on Mac

2011-07-28 Thread Tom Murphy
+1 - does anyone know the answer to this? On Jul 27, 2011 2:04 PM, Chris Smith cdsm...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 2011-07-27 at 07:20 -0400, Jack Henahan wrote: Bundling things with the HP is just going to bloat that download and confuse new users more (and my god, the dep-chasing... the number

Re: [Haskell-cafe] XCode Dependency for HP on Mac

2011-07-31 Thread Tom Murphy
On 7/30/11, Mark Lentczner m...@glyphic.com wrote: Hiho - I'm the maintainer of the Mac installer for HP. I thought I'd chime in a bit: An expert :) On Mac OS X, developer tools is essentially synonymous with Xcode. That is, to get the set of standard utilities needed for development on

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Please take the State of Haskell, 2011 survey

2011-08-22 Thread Tom Murphy
Thanks for running this again: very informative. We ought to be able to write a library with a Par monad for distributed parallel algorithms. If someone were to do this they might want to start here: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers/parallel/monad-par.pdf I've

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Fwd: problem with cabal install MissingH-1.1.1.0

2011-09-22 Thread Tom Murphy
I used to have a lot of cabal problems when running a version of the GHC installed with MacPorts. I notice you're using homebrew. Maybe that's part of the problem? Tom On Sep 22, 2011 8:11 PM, Mariano Cortesi mcort...@gmail.com wrote: ___ Haskell-Cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Is it possible to represent such polymorphism?

2011-10-02 Thread Tom Murphy
Assuming that z :: Int, you can declare an algebraic datatype data TwoOrThree a b = Three (a, b, Int) | Two (a, b) deriving(Show, Eq) -- so you can experiment And then define expand as expand :: TwoOrThree a b - (a, b, Int) expand (Three tuple) = tuple expand (Two (a, b))

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Message

2011-10-21 Thread Tom Murphy
Ok, I'll bite: what's it need? - Tom / amindfv On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Albert Y. C. Lai tre...@vex.net wrote: On 11-10-21 03:59 AM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote: 2011/10/21 Goutam Tmvvo1d_poin...@live.com: Would you ever see yourself write a web application like Twitter or

Re: [Haskell-cafe] hello Haskell

2011-10-23 Thread Tom Murphy
The GUI list could definitely use this type of moderation. Tom / amindfv On Oct 23, 2011 9:54 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo mle...@mega-nerd.com wrote: R J wrote: hey Haskell this is nuts http://www.business10i.com hey Haskell this is nuts ://xxx.xxx.xxx Maybe its time to moderate

Re: [Haskell-cafe] hello Haskell

2011-10-23 Thread Tom Murphy
Blocking/unsubscribing people based on their email provider seems... sort of impolite or unwelcoming. A greylist could work. Given the relatively low volume of spam, my vote is for the original suggestion of first-message-moderated, with the ability to put an address back on moderation if their

Re: [Haskell-cafe] List archives searchable?

2011-10-25 Thread Tom Murphy
Cap'n: http://www.mail-archive.com/haskell-cafe@haskell.org/ But I usually just use a search engine. Tom / amindfv On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Captain Freako capn.fre...@gmail.comwrote: Are the archives of this list searchable? ___

Re: [Haskell-cafe] A Mascot

2011-11-16 Thread Tom Murphy
I'm used to (on the east coast US) hearing lambda pronounced LAM-duh. Duh is an expression of something being stupid, so I don't know about Haskell having a mascot called Duh the Lamb! amindfv / Tom On Nov 16, 2011 4:06 PM, heathmatlock heathmatl...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at

Re: [Haskell-cafe] lambda.fm How can I use this to help the Haskell community?

2011-11-23 Thread Tom Murphy
Or set up a system like this: http://www.linux.fm/ :) amindfv / Tom On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 11:38 AM, heathmatlock heathmatl...@gmail.comwrote: Stream podcasts on functional programming. On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 5:39 AM, Ben Wright bwright...@gmail.com wrote: A while back I somehow managed

[Haskell-cafe] Current Haskell report URL

2011-11-23 Thread Tom Murphy
Is there a reason that the Haskell 2010 report is in a subdirectory of haskell.org/onlinereport (which currently points to the Haskell98 standard)? http://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/ -- Haskell98 http://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/haskell2010/ -- Haskell2010 If it's for historical

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage down!

2011-12-01 Thread Tom Murphy
Is the list the right place to ask about this? I was trying to access Hackage today too, and didn't know who to let know about the problem. amindfv / Tom On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Edgar Gomes Araujo talktoed...@gmail.comwrote: Hi everybody, Is hackage.haskell.org down? I'm trying to

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why doesn't this work? (palindrome :: IO)

2011-12-08 Thread Tom Murphy
On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 11:46 PM, Brandon Allbery allber...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 23:24, Alexej Segeda aloscha_den_st...@hotmail.com wrote: case s of (s == reverse s)- putStrLn (s ++ is a palindrome) otherwise

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why doesn't this work? (palindrome :: IO)

2011-12-11 Thread Tom Murphy
() of () | s == reverse s - putStrLn palindrome _ - putStrLn nope Tom Murphy wrote: This is kind of a hack of case, though. I think what the OP was looking for is isPalindrome word | (word == reverse word) = putStrLn (word ++ is a palindrome) | otherwise

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: hxournal-0.5.0.0 - A pen notetaking program written in haskell

2011-12-14 Thread Tom Murphy
On Dec 14, 2011 1:33 AM, Ian-Woo Kim ianwoo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Ivan, I modified hxournal. New source code is now on github repository. https://www.github.com/wavewave/hxournal Are these changes reflected on Hackage? amindfv / Tom Now it has a very rudimentary config file. The config

Re: [Haskell-cafe] strict, lazy, non-strict, eager

2011-12-24 Thread Tom Murphy
I have not written this complaint until now because I have been waiting for unmistakable evidence, a smoking gun, a red hand so caught that you cannot explain away, It's not a murder trial! The number-one nice thing about the Haskell community is that they _thoroughly_ listen to people. I

Re: [Haskell-cafe] book.realworldhaskell.org is down

2011-12-24 Thread Tom Murphy
realworldhaskell.org/book On Dec 25, 2011 1:46 AM, Eugene Kirpichov ekirpic...@gmail.com wrote: See subject. Is this expected? -- Eugene Kirpichov Principal Engineer, Mirantis Inc. http://www.mirantis.com/ Editor, http://fprog.ru/ ___

Re: [Haskell-cafe] MIDI-controlled application

2011-12-27 Thread Tom Murphy
On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 3:54 AM, Tim Baumgartner baumgartner@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Haskellers! I'm writing my first non-trivial Haskell application. I have an electronic drum set that generates MIDI events that I process with Haskell. A simple application of this kind might have fixed

Re: [Haskell-cafe] black Wikipedia (Was: PhD program at Portland State accepting applications)

2012-01-18 Thread Tom Murphy
On 1/18/12, MigMit miguelim...@yandex.ru wrote: [..] (it really is a JavaScript trick). In the interest of Wikipedia-style fact-citation, here's a quote from Wikipedia: During the blackout, Wikipedia is accessible on mobile devices and smart phones. You can also view Wikipedia normally by

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Efficient temporary file storage??

2012-01-23 Thread Tom Murphy
It's not as efficient for Maps, but you might want to look at the swapper package: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/swapper It transfers Haskell data structures (any functors) directly to and from disk. Tom On 1/23/12, Krzysztof Skrzętnicki gte...@gmail.com wrote: From my experience I can

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Fancy REPL

2012-02-09 Thread Tom Murphy
Does this mean we're going to see music FRP examples soon?! amindfv / Tom On Feb 9, 2012 2:17 PM, Heinrich Apfelmus apfel...@quantentunnel.de wrote: Dear list, the Show class is extremely useful for exploring Haskell in a terminal, but sometimes, I just want something fancier. For

[Haskell-cafe] Happstack-state in non-happstack production apps

2012-02-10 Thread Tom Murphy
Hi, Is it common to use happstack-state without happstack for real-world code (web or otherwise)? Thanks, amindfv / Tom ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Happstack-state in non-happstack production apps

2012-02-13 Thread Tom Murphy
, Antoine Latter aslat...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Tom Murphy amin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,     Is it common to use happstack-state without happstack for real-world code (web or otherwise)? The package 'acid-state' is considered the successor to happstack-state

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Subject: A universal data store interface

2012-02-13 Thread Tom Murphy
With respect, I don't think that Persistent is a natural choice as the go-to tool for Haskell users, simply because it requires knowledge of a lot of Yesod-EDSL syntax. The set of users with persistent data needs seems a very different set than that of those who are familiar with Yesod,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Subject: A universal data store interface

2012-02-13 Thread Tom Murphy
new things to get the automatic code generation. On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 9:30 PM, Tom Murphy amin...@gmail.com wrote:     With respect, I don't think that Persistent is a natural choice as the go-to tool for Haskell users, simply because it requires knowledge of a lot of Yesod-EDSL syntax

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Subject: A universal data store interface

2012-02-13 Thread Tom Murphy
On 2/13/12, Paul R paul.r...@gmail.com wrote: [...] Abstraction over high level data stores is one of the worst idea in software engineering. The most proeminent example is probably PostgreSQL, which is an incredibly strong product with high SQL power. But as soon as you access it through

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Subject: A universal data store interface

2012-02-13 Thread Tom Murphy
On 2/13/12, Sergiu Ivanov unlimitedscol...@gmail.com wrote: [...] a stable, flexible, and easy-to-work-with, already existing storage interface should allow Haskell programmers to focus less on IO and more on the purely functional logic. +1 - Very exciting! Tom

[Haskell-cafe] Usefulness of abstracting data storage, WAS: A universal data store interface

2012-02-13 Thread Tom Murphy
Mailing list thread split! The GSoC seems like it should have its own list thread, so I'm moving this other discussion: On 2/13/12, Paul R paul.r...@gmail.com wrote: The most proeminent example is probably PostgreSQL, which is an incredibly strong product with high SQL power. But as soon as you

[Haskell-cafe] Haskell development in Mac OS X after Gatekeeper

2012-02-19 Thread Tom Murphy
Does anyone know what this will mean for the future of Haskell development in OS X?: http://www.apple.com/macosx/mountain-lion/security.html I'm particularly interested in what it'll mean for 0) Distributing non-Cocoa-built apps, even if you're approved by Apple 1) Writing software for

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell development in Mac OS X after Gatekeeper

2012-02-19 Thread Tom Murphy
On 2/19/12, Austin Seipp mad@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 6:01 PM, Tom Murphy amin...@gmail.com wrote: 0) Distributing non-Cocoa-built apps, even if you're approved by Apple Do you just mean binaries that you expect users run under /usr/local/bin or something, not app bundles

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell development in Mac OS X after Gatekeeper

2012-02-19 Thread Tom Murphy
*Short* term, the most that will happen is that people will have to say yeah yeah I know just let me have it OK?. Already in 10.6 there was this nagging feature where you click on a downloaded document and it says this was downloaded, do you really want to open it and it takes a painfully

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Functional programming podcast

2012-02-22 Thread Tom Murphy
I'd listen. With good editing and good discussion, this could be a nice addition to my (bi)week. Tom (amindfv) On 2/22/12, Christopher Done chrisd...@googlemail.com wrote: Show of hands, who would be interested in working on a podcast weekly or biweekly and what would you like to provide?

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell compilers targeting VMs

2012-02-23 Thread Tom Murphy
There are some substantial technical challenges: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/GHC:FAQ#Why_isn.27t_GHC_available_for_.NET_or_on_the_JVM.3F Not that it can't be done, but there's nothing ready yet. Tom (IRC: amindfv) On 2/23/12, ARJANEN Loïc Jean David arjanen.l...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Haskell-cafe] In an imperative language, commands fulling memory cells is easy, but gives the false impression that S/W engineering is easy.

2012-03-17 Thread Tom Murphy
The messages are replies to messages on this list; I think it's just a simple smartphone subject/message mixup Tom On Mar 17, 2012 4:44 PM, Jake McArthur jake.mcart...@gmail.com wrote: This mailing list is not Twitter. Please stop sending emails without meaningful content. On Mar 17, 2012

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Open-source projects for beginning Haskell students?

2012-03-22 Thread Tom Murphy
If you want to do Haskell audio synthesis, you could also use hsc3 (good start here: http://slavepianos.org/rd/ut/hsc3-texts/). With hsc3 you can start on serious audio synthesis with only a few lines of Haskell. In my opinion it could use a much larger community. Tom On 3/22/12, Heinrich

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Open-source projects for beginning Haskell students?

2012-03-22 Thread Tom Murphy
Sorry; make that http://slavepianos.org/rd/ut/hsc3-texts/hsc3-tutorial.html On 3/22/12, Tom Murphy amin...@gmail.com wrote: If you want to do Haskell audio synthesis, you could also use hsc3 (good start here: http://slavepianos.org/rd/ut/hsc3-texts/). With hsc3 you can start on serious

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Learn you

2012-05-06 Thread Tom Murphy
On May 3, 2012 8:40 PM, wren ng thornton w...@freegeek.org wrote: On 5/3/12 1:26 AM, Richard O'Keefe wrote: The Little Lisper (and the other books like The Little Schemer and The Seasoned Schemer) are presumably meant to be funny, but to me come across as offensively patronising Tis a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] [Haskell-beginners] Most C++ compilers will not optimize x^2.0 as x*x but instead will do an expensive ...

2012-05-23 Thread Tom Murphy
Just to play devil's advocate, if you look back at the list, KC has written a lot of helpful and informative messages in the past. Tom On 5/23/12, Bardur Arantsson s...@scientician.net wrote: On 05/24/2012 04:31 AM, Brandon Allbery wrote: On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 10:19 PM, Bardur Arantsson

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Martin Odersky on What's wrong with Monads

2012-07-05 Thread Tom Murphy
In practice, the amount of time you have to spend testing each function, to make sure its IO doesn't trip up in some corner case, is usually greater than the amount of time a rewrite-for-IO would take. Tom On Jun 28, 2012 2:54 PM, Dominique Devriese dominique.devri...@cs.kuleuven.be wrote:

[Haskell-cafe] Proposal: Technique to handle package dependency gridlock

2012-08-01 Thread Tom Murphy
We've got a problem with dependencies: http://cdsmith.wordpress.com/2011/01/21/a-recap-about-cabal-and-haskell-libraries/ http://cdsmith.wordpress.com/2011/01/17/the-butterfly-effect-in-cabal/ http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/x4knd/what_is_the_reason_for_haskells_cabal_package/ I'd like

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Groundhog 0.1.0.1 - high-level database library

2012-09-13 Thread Tom Murphy
How does this compare with other high-level Haskell db libraries? Tom On Sep 13, 2012 2:25 PM, Boris Lykah lyk...@gmail.com wrote: I am happy to announce a new version of Groundhog, a library for fast high-level database access: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/groundhog

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: Nomyx 0.1 beta, the game where you can change the rules

2013-02-27 Thread Tom Murphy
There's another one... http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0-NT1rzFpik/Tpe4sb18gOI/AuM/j2BHO_TgLi4/s1600/calvinball.jpg Tom On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 7:07 PM, Ben Lippmeier b...@ouroborus.net wrote: On 27/02/2013, at 10:28 , Corentin Dupont corentin.dup...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everybody! I am

[Haskell-cafe] N-ANN: HBlog-0.1

2013-04-01 Thread Tom Murphy
source files: Portions of this code (c) 2013 Tom Murphy. All rights reserved. ROADMAP: -- Lenses sound pretty cool, so I've started writing lenses for the Author type, as well as finding out what a lens is. Maybe one day there'll be lenses for the Post type, too -- keep your fingers crossed! -- One

Re: [Haskell-cafe] N-ANN: HBlog-0.1

2013-04-01 Thread Tom Murphy
Oh, and happy April 1! On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 6:16 AM, Tom Murphy amin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Not particularly happy to announce the non-release of my latest library, HBlog 0.1. I've been working on it steadily for a long time now, but it's still not ready. The library

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Prolog-style patterns

2013-04-08 Thread Tom Murphy
On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 7:59 AM, Joachim Breitner m...@joachim-breitner.dewrote: Hi, I believe one problem with non-linear patterns would be that the compiler has to figure out what notion of equality you want here. An obvious choice is (==), but the Eq instances might not do what you want.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Backward compatibility

2013-05-03 Thread Tom Murphy
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 9:48 PM, Adrian May adrian.alexander@gmail.comwrote: Is anybody in the Haskell community still interested in attracting new users? If so I suggest you go play with Ruby on Rails. Then you'll know what it's like to approach a complex and unfamiliar system where

Re: [haskell art] [Haskell-cafe] the library of beautiful instruments implemented in haskell / csound

2015-09-13 Thread Tom Murphy
These sound great, congratulations! "Batteries included" is a great place to be. Can you point to references you used to create the instrument definitions? Tom On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Anton Kholomiov wrote: > Status update for my haskell synth