Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage down

2009-10-19 Thread Tom Tobin
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 3:30 AM, Dougal Stanton dou...@dougalstanton.net wrote: Has not been responding for at least the last 12 hours. Is there somewhere to look for status reports on sysadmin details like this, so we can tell if Or even better, might it be possible to look into setting up a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Documentation (was: ANN: text 0.5, a major revision of the Unicode text library)

2009-10-19 Thread Tom Tobin
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Kyle Murphy orc...@gmail.com wrote: If they have to spend three hours trying to track down some obscure research paper that's referenced in your documentation a half dozen times in as many functions, you're not providing enough detail and assuming too great a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell-beginners] map question

2009-10-19 Thread Tom Tobin
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Will Ness will_...@yahoo.com wrote: This syntax already exists. The '`' symbol is non-collating already, so using it for symbol chars doesn't change anything (it's not that it can be a part of some name, right?). To turn an infix op into an infix op is an id

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hoogle is great but ...

2009-10-26 Thread Tom Tobin
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 9:11 AM, David Leimbach leim...@gmail.com wrote: or the printf implementation.  I tried to figure it out, then the Cenobites came and got me. QOTW, if I may say so. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Announce: language-python version 0.2 now available

2009-11-04 Thread Tom Tobin
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 7:03 AM, Bernie Pope florbit...@gmail.com wrote: I'm pleased to announce that version 0.2 of the language-python package is now available on hackage:   http://hackage.haskell.org/package/language-python language-python provides lexical analysis and parsing for Python.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Card games

2009-11-07 Thread Tom Tobin
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 8:07 AM, Felipe Lessa felipe.le...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 08:46:07AM -0500, Matthias Görgens wrote: Interesting idea.  But I guess you should clarify what kind of card games you want to support.  E.g, a DSL for trick taking games like Bridge, Skat or

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Writing great documentation

2009-11-13 Thread Tom Tobin
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Max Rabkin max.rab...@gmail.com wrote: I have heard many complaints about the average quality on documentation. Therefore, I'd like to encourage you all to read Jacob Kaplan-Moss's series on writing great documentation:

Re: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] Howto start a bigger project

2009-11-16 Thread Tom Tobin
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Bulat Ziganshin bulat.zigans...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Casey, Monday, November 16, 2009, 11:30:51 PM, you wrote: Why not use www.sourceforge.net? i strongly recommend http://code.google.com or http://codeplex.com SF is slow and olf-fashioned If you like

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Howto start a bigger project

2009-11-16 Thread Tom Tobin
2009/11/16 Günther Schmidt gue.schm...@web.de: Hi all, I don't think the *project* is ready for sourceforge or similar yet. I was thinking more about something bloggish first, where I could state some thoughts first and where people could then comment or otherwise contribute. I reckon it

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: ANNOUNCE: haskell-mode 2.7.0

2009-11-30 Thread Tom Tobin
On Nov 30, 2009, at 5:06 PM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote: The default Hlint keybinding is C-c l: Doesn't that violate the emacs proscription against taking C-c (letter) bindings, as they are intended to be reserved for the user? From the GNU Emacs manual: Don't define C-c letter as a key in

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Card games

2009-12-03 Thread Tom Tobin
2009/12/3 Matthias Görgens matthias.goerg...@googlemail.com: Hi Tom, Did you make any progress on your Dominion quest?  I guess you could start by modeling `Big Money' and add the other cards (and interaction) from there. No, I'm still trying to tune a partitionM function I wrote. (I'm

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Card games

2009-12-03 Thread Tom Tobin
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Daniel Fischer daniel.is.fisc...@web.de wrote: Am Donnerstag 03 Dezember 2009 19:23:24 schrieb Tom Tobin: No, I'm still trying to tune a partitionM function I wrote. Maybe we can help? Sure; should I post it to haskell-beginners

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Card games

2009-12-03 Thread Tom Tobin
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Daniel Fischer daniel.is.fisc...@web.de wrote: Am Donnerstag 03 Dezember 2009 21:24:11 schrieb Tom Tobin: On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Daniel Fischer daniel.is.fisc...@web.de wrote: Am Donnerstag 03 Dezember 2009 19:23:24 schrieb Tom Tobin: No, I'm still

Re: [Haskell-cafe] The Haskell Web News: December 2009 Edition

2009-12-07 Thread Tom Tobin
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Deniz Dogan deniz.a.m.do...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/12/7 Don Stewart d...@galois.com: The Haskell Web News is a monthly summary of the hottest news about the Haskell programming language, as found in our online communities. If you want to catch up with what’s

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: hakyll-0.1

2009-12-07 Thread Tom Tobin
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 6:35 AM, Jasper van der Jeugt jasper...@gmail.com wrote: Hakyll is a simple static site generator library, mostly aimed at blogs. It supports markdown, tex and html templates. It is inspired by the ruby Jekyll program. It has a very small codebase because it makes

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell job opportunity

2009-12-08 Thread Tom Tobin
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 11:09 AM, siki ga...@karamaan.com wrote: I've posted this before but did not get a whole lot of responses, so here it is again: [...] You should have at least a bachelor’s degree in computer science from a top university Might I humbly suggest that this is going to

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: ANN: hakyll-0.1

2009-12-08 Thread Tom Tobin
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Tom Tobin korp...@korpios.com wrote: If you are forming a derivative work based on the GPL'd work, and thus you have to release that derivative work under the GPL. Wow, I mangled the syntax on that last sentence. That should read: If you are forming

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: ANN: hakyll-0.1

2009-12-08 Thread Tom Tobin
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Robert Greayer robgrea...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Tom Tobin korp...@korpios.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Ben Franksen ben.frank...@online.de wrote: Ketil Malde wrote: Your contributions could still be licensed under

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: ANN: hakyll-0.1

2009-12-08 Thread Tom Tobin
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Warren Henning warren.henn...@gmail.com wrote: Am I the only one who finds this stuff confusing as hell? It *is* confusing as hell, because law is confusing as hell, because it's an interpreted language of sorts — what matters is how judges rule on the law, not

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: ANN: hakyll-0.1

2009-12-08 Thread Tom Tobin
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Gregory Crosswhite gcr...@phys.washington.edu wrote: On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Tom Tobin korp...@korpios.com wrote: The crux here is that the source code of hakyll, released on hackage, is not a derivative of Pandoc (it contains, as far as I understand

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: ANN: hakyll-0.1

2009-12-08 Thread Tom Tobin
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Robert Greayer robgrea...@gmail.com wrote: Not to belabor the point (I hope), but consider the following situation -- if the current version of Pandoc, 1.2.1, were released under BSD3, not GPL, it would be obvious that the current version of hakyll could be

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Re: ANN: hakyll-0.1

2009-12-08 Thread Tom Tobin
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Ben Franksen ben.frank...@online.de wrote: On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, Tom Tobin wrote: Seriously, no, this is *totally* wrong reading of the GPL, probably fostered by a misunderstanding of the term GPL-compatible license. GPL-compatible means the compatibly-licensed

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: ANN: hakyll-0.1

2009-12-08 Thread Tom Tobin
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo mle...@mega-nerd.com wrote: Tom Tobin wrote: I can write the SFLC and pose a hypothetical situation that captures the gist of what we're talking about, and post the response here, if anyone is interested. I suggest that you put together

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: ANN: hakyll-0.1

2009-12-08 Thread Tom Tobin
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo mle...@mega-nerd.com wrote: Tom Tobin wrote: The background situation: X is a library distributed under the GPL.  Y is another library that uses that library and requires it in order to compile and function. You probably also need to bring

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: ANN: hakyll-0.1

2009-12-08 Thread Tom Tobin
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Tom Tobin korp...@korpios.com wrote: Well I think that's actually what we're wondering here — under what circumstances is Y's author permitted to choose his license at will? I think I phrased this poorly; it's more under what circumstances is Y's author permitted

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: ANN: hakyll-0.1

2009-12-08 Thread Tom Tobin
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Matthew Brecknell matt...@brecknell.net wrote: Based on the discussion so far, I think you need to distinguish between distributing source and distributing binaries. For example: Background: X is a library distributed under GPL. Y is another library which calls

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: ANN: hakyll-0.1

2009-12-08 Thread Tom Tobin
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Robert Greayer robgrea...@gmail.com wrote: There's another FAQ on GNU site that, I think, addresses the Pandoc/Hakyll situation directly: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#LinkingWithGPL You have a GPL'ed program that I'd like to link with my code to

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: ANN: hakyll-0.1

2009-12-08 Thread Tom Tobin
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 11:19 PM, Tom Tobin korp...@korpios.com wrote:  In temporary lieu of posing questions explicitly to the SFLC, I dug up a copy of _Intellectual Property and Open Source_ by Foobar ::facepalm:: I wrote Foobar as a placeholder as I was typing, and never replaced

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: ANN: hakyll-0.1

2009-12-09 Thread Tom Tobin
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 4:59 AM, Ketil Malde ke...@malde.org wrote: Tom Tobin korp...@korpios.com writes: If it turns out that Hakyll *is* okay to be BSD3 licensed so long as neither any binary nor the GPL'd work's source is distributed under non-GPL terms, well ... I'll say that the meaning

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: ANN: hakyll-0.1

2009-12-11 Thread Tom Tobin
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Tom Tobin korp...@korpios.com wrote: Question 2 can be If the answer to 1 is no, is there *any* circumstance under which the author of Y can distribute the source of Y under a non-GPL license? I'd like to get these questions out to the SFLC so we can satisfy our

Re: [Haskell-cafe] (semi OT) Fwd: Old math reveals new thinking in children's cognitive development

2009-12-11 Thread Tom Tobin
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH allb...@ece.cmu.edu wrote: Unexpected applications of category theory for $500, Alex Before you know it, they're going to be modeling mental processes as monads. :p ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: ANN: hakyll-0.1

2009-12-12 Thread Tom Tobin
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 4:54 AM, minh thu not...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to point out a possible situation, that makes the questions even more interesting. Say the author of Y (the BSD licensed code) is used to install its code, Y, along of its requisite X (under GPL) to customer locations.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GHC 6.12 status and features

2009-12-12 Thread Tom Tobin
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 8:22 AM, Max Bolingbroke batterseapo...@hotmail.com wrote: 2009/12/12 Rafael Gustavo da Cunha Pereira Pinto rafaelgcpp.li...@gmail.com: I know I should probably be asking to the GHC list, but is there any update on 6.12 since October? Any probable release date? It

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GHC 6.12 status and features

2009-12-13 Thread Tom Tobin
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 6:00 AM, Adam Cimarosti cimaro...@gmail.com wrote: WIth 6.10.4 there's a major bug with Snow leopard: It doesn't work (Cannot compile 64-bit). Well, it works as long as you apply a workaround and have universal (combo 32/64-bit) libraries available — albeit it would be

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GHC 6.12 on OS X 10.5

2009-12-21 Thread Tom Tobin
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 4:32 AM, Conor McBride co...@strictlypositive.org wrote: I thought I'd record my upgrade exerience (so far) in case anyone else finds it useful, and (more selfishly) in case anyone has some helpful advice. Summary of situation You just described what I went through last

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GHC 6.12 on OS X 10.5

2009-12-21 Thread Tom Tobin
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Tom Tobin korp...@korpios.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 4:32 AM, Conor McBride co...@strictlypositive.org wrote: I thought I'd record my upgrade exerience (so far) in case anyone else finds it useful, and (more selfishly) in case anyone has some helpful

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GHC 6.12 on OS X 10.5

2009-12-21 Thread Tom Tobin
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Antoine Latter aslat...@gmail.com wrote: This one I can help with. You need to modify the .cabal file for HJScript slightly. To do this:  cabal unpack HJScript  cd HJScript-0.4.5  ${EDITOR} HJScript.cabal And then add 'GADTs' to the 'Extensions:' list.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GHC 6.12 on OS X 10.5

2009-12-21 Thread Tom Tobin
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 8:41 PM, Tom Tobin korp...@korpios.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Antoine Latter aslat...@gmail.com wrote: This one I can help with. You need to modify the .cabal file for HJScript slightly. To do this:  cabal unpack HJScript  cd HJScript-0.4.5  ${EDITOR

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: install-dirs on Mac OS X

2009-12-22 Thread Tom Tobin
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 4:49 AM, Heinrich Apfelmus apfel...@quantentunnel.de wrote: Likewise,  ~/Library/Haskell  seems to be the best place for user installs. While I don't mind the /Library/Haskell path for global installs, I'm not sure how I feel about this for local installs. It usually

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Problem with cabal install zlib

2009-12-22 Thread Tom Tobin
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Ozgur Akgun ozgurak...@gmail.com wrote: Oh sorry for that character. I wanted to make that part underlined in gmail which uses (i guess) *'s to denote it. Just to emphasise the problematic part. Yikes — I just checked what Gmail sends as the plain-text

[Haskell-cafe] Cabal's License type: MIT commented out?

2009-12-23 Thread Tom Tobin
I noticed on Hackage that packages that are MIT licensed show up as OtherLicense. I took a peek inside the Cabal code, and noticed that the License type has lines for MIT, but commented out [1]: ---- | The MIT license, similar to the BSD3. Very free license. -- | MIT Why is this? Both

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal's License type: MIT commented out?

2009-12-24 Thread Tom Tobin
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 5:12 AM, Duncan Coutts duncan.cou...@googlemail.com wrote: So the reason it's there commented out in the Cabal-1.6 code you're looking at is to remind us to uncomment it for Cabal-1.8 (which it now is, along with the versioned (L)GPL licenses). Ahh, okay. (I love when

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Data.Ring -- Pre-announce

2009-12-31 Thread Tom Tobin
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 5:27 AM, Heinrich Apfelmus apfel...@quantentunnel.de wrote: Since the name  Ring  is already taken by an ubiquitous mathematical structure, and thus already in hackage for example as  Algebra.Ring  in the  numeric-prelude , I suggest to call the data structure  Necklace

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Lambda's

2010-01-09 Thread Tom Tobin
On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 5:35 PM, wren ng thornton w...@freegeek.org wrote: Even if folks don't mind the NSFW, some of us work to combat the sexist culture that pervades computer science and prevents women from embracing a love of mathematics and programming. ::sigh:: As much as I didn't care

Re: [Haskell-cafe] short licensing question

2010-01-11 Thread Tom Tobin
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 6:58 AM, Sebastian Fischer s...@informatik.uni-kiel.de wrote: when writing a Haskell library that uses two other Haskell libraries -- one licensed under BSD3 and one under LGPL -- what are allowed possibilities for licensing the written package? PublicDomain? BSD3? LGPL?

[Haskell-cafe] Haskell-iPhone mailing list?

2010-01-11 Thread Tom Tobin
Is there a mailing list for efforts to get Haskell running on the iPhone? As I've been maintaining an iPhone app for my employer (and nearly foaming at the mouth with hatred for Objective-C), I'd love to see a more sane option in this space. I've seen the wiki page [1], but I'm not aware of any

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Language simplicity

2010-01-13 Thread Tom Tobin
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH allb...@ece.cmu.edu wrote: On Jan 13, 2010, at 14:25 , Andrew Coppin wrote: (And even if that's not the case, I've yet to find a way to type in the Unicode characters which are hypothetically possible.) That's a problem with your

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Language simplicity

2010-01-14 Thread Tom Tobin
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 12:45 AM, Colin Paul Adams co...@colina.demon.co.uk wrote: Tom == Tom Tobin korp...@korpios.com writes:    Tom readability.  The ASCII characters are universal and easily    Tom recognized No they are not. My wife is Chinese. When she was learning pinyin as a child

Re: [Haskell-cafe] General Advice Needed ..

2010-01-14 Thread Tom Tobin
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 7:52 AM, Ian675 adam_khan_...@hotmail.com wrote: Is there any general advice? Just keep reading the book till it drills into my big head? Also don't be afraid to ask specific questions on the Beginners mailing list; while Cafe is a good general resource, Beginners is

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Anyone recommend a VPS?

2010-01-31 Thread Tom Tobin
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Michael Snoyman mich...@snoyman.com wrote: OK, I guess the unananimous opinion in linode ;). Thanks for the input everyone! If it helps make your client even more comfortable: not only do I use Linode for my personal VPS, but we use them at work to host some

[Haskell-cafe] safe-lazy-io on GHC 6.12?

2010-02-06 Thread Tom Tobin
After convincing myself the hard way that you can't be lazy across strict monadic results (by writing myself a foldrM -- yeah, I'm still a beginner), I noticed the recent discussion of safe-lazy-io vs. iteratee with interest. The safe-lazy-io package seems much easier to understand than iteratee,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 149 - February 08, 2010

2010-02-08 Thread Tom Tobin
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 11:47 AM, jfred...@gmail.com wrote: --- Haskell Weekly News http://sequence.complete.org/hwn/20100208 Issue 149 - February 08, 2010

Re: [Haskell-cafe] How many Haskell Engineer I/II/IIIs are there?

2010-02-10 Thread Tom Tobin
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Jason Dusek jason.du...@gmail.com wrote:  I wonder how many people actually write Haskell,  principally or exclusively, at work? While I don't suspect the number is large at the moment, the same thing could have been said several years ago of the language I use

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: How many Haskell Engineer I/II/IIIs are there?

2010-02-15 Thread Tom Tobin
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 2:24 AM, Michael Lesniak mlesn...@uni-kassel.de wrote: There's the subReddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell_proposals/ I know it. The problem is that (at least in my opinion) only a small fraction of Haskell'ers use it. I strongly dislike social X sites (where X is

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Two authors especially likely to be spammed.

2010-02-15 Thread Tom Tobin
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Jason Dusek jason.du...@gmail.com wrote:  I recently discovered that many haskell-cafe mails are  being dumped in my SPAM folder. A lot of them are from John  Lato and Simon Marlow. I just did this search on my Gmail: in:spam haskell ... and got no results, so

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Notes on migrating from uvector to vector

2010-02-15 Thread Tom Tobin
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 9:43 PM, Ivan Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com wrote: On 16 February 2010 08:35, Don Stewart d...@galois.com wrote: Enjoy the new decade of flexible, fusible, fast arrays for Haskell! /me points out that 2010 is actually the last year of the decade, and not the

[Haskell-cafe] GPL answers from the SFLC (WAS: Re: ANN: hakyll-0.1)

2010-03-04 Thread Tom Tobin
, and warn an author if any libraries it depends on (directly or indirectly) are GPL'd but the .cabal itself does not have the license set to GPL. On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Tom Tobin korp...@korpios.com wrote: I'd like to get these questions out to the SFLC so we can satisfy our curiosity

[Haskell-cafe] Re: GPL answers from the SFLC (WAS: Re: ANN: hakyll-0.1)

2010-03-05 Thread Tom Tobin
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Tom Tobin korp...@korpios.com wrote: After politely pestering them again, I finally heard back from the Software Freedom Law Center regarding our GPL questions (quoted below). I exchanged several emails to clarify the particular issues; in short, the answers

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Thinking about what's missing in our library coverage

2009-08-05 Thread Tom Tobin
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Colin Paul Adamsco...@colina.demon.co.uk wrote: Just because a library is blessed, doesn't mean you have to use it. Then I'm not sure I understand the point of blessing it in a set of libraries that saves you the task of picking and choosing the best Haskell

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Thinking about what's missing in our library coverage

2009-08-05 Thread Tom Tobin
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Colin Paul Adamsco...@colina.demon.co.uk wrote: Tom == Tom Tobin korp...@korpios.com writes:     This can surely be tackled by cabal, as it already has the     license information.    Tom I don't see this as a real solution; why would a package be It should

[Haskell-cafe] Chicago Haskell User Group?

2009-08-12 Thread Tom Tobin
There isn't a Chicago-area Haskell group, is there? If not, would anyone be interested in forming one? I used to run Chicago's Django (a Python web framework) group, but lost interest (and since I lived in the suburbs back then, got sick of the commute). Unlike Python, I'm still very much a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Chicago Haskell User Group?

2009-08-12 Thread Tom Tobin
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Jeremy Shawjer...@n-heptane.com wrote: Personally, I would recommend using a facebook page as a means of communicating within the group. Okay: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Chicago-IL/Chicago-Haskell-User-Group/115989593098 I hope that's the correct

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Chicago Haskell User Group?

2009-08-12 Thread Tom Tobin
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Jeremy Shawjer...@n-heptane.com wrote: Or you can make me an admin, and I'll do it. I did that; feel free to go ahead and dress up the page. ^_^ A logo somehow incorporating elements of the skyline into the new Haskell logo would be cute, if you (or anyone

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Snow Leopard Breaks GHC

2009-08-31 Thread Tom Tobin
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Dmitri Sosnikdim...@gmail.com wrote: On 31/08/2009, at 9:02 PM, Christian Maeder wrote: Dmitri Sosnik wrote: How I can tell gcc to generate 32 bit code? I've tried to set CFLAGS=-m32, but it doesn't work. (Flags do not work -- without Makefile) Pass

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Snow Leopard Breaks GHC

2009-09-01 Thread Tom Tobin
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 3:14 AM, Christian Maederchristian.mae...@dfki.de wrote: It seems, bootstrapping cabal went wrong. Does http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/2009.2.0.2/haskell-platform-2009.2.0.2-i386.dmg work? Installing the Haskell Platform package, combined with adding the previously

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Snow Leopard breaks GHC

2009-09-04 Thread Tom Tobin
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Christian Maederchristian.mae...@dfki.de wrote: Or runghc form /usr/bin? /usr/bin/runghc is a symlink to the same file as runhaskell. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cal, Clojure, Groovy, Haskell, OCaml, etc.

2009-09-29 Thread Tom Tobin
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Hong Yang hyang...@gmail.com wrote: Good libraries are not enough for a language to go beyond mere existence. There must exist good documents, i.e., good tutorials, good books, and good explanations and examples in the libraries, etc, that are easy for people to

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cal, Clojure, Groovy, Haskell, OCaml, etc.

2009-09-29 Thread Tom Tobin
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Don Stewart d...@galois.com wrote: korpios: wiki — but I still find the array of libraries confusing (just what comes with GHC — I'm not even talking about Hackage here), since the What comes with GHC is the Haskell Platform these days. Actually, the other

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cal, Clojure, Groovy, Haskell, OCaml, etc.

2009-09-30 Thread Tom Tobin
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 11:45 AM, namekuseijin namekusei...@gmail.com wrote: I've not been following Haskell too much and am completely lost when reading code like that.  I understand (+1), : and ! but what the hell are . and $ for? Function composition and lowest-precedence function