[Haskell] Respect

Friends One of the most precious attributes of the Haskell community over the last twenty-five years has been its supportive, friendly, and respectful dialogue. People have often drawn attention to this, and I have always felt good about it.  (A great example is this hilarious exchange [1],

Re: [Haskell] A small milestone

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[Haskell] A small milestone

Cherished friends Today is my sixtieth birthday. It is just over forty years since Phil and I called in at Yale on my way to FPCA, and floated the idea of Haskell with Paul Hudak. (It wasn't

[Haskell] SLURP: a single unified registry for Haskell packages

Friends Hackage has been extraordinarily successful as a single repository through which to share Haskell packages. It has supported the emergence of variety of tools to locate Haskell packages, build them and install them (cabal-install, Stack, Nix, ...). But in recent years there has been

[Haskell] The Haskell Report: who maintains it?

Friends Does anyone know who, if anyone, feels responsible for committing updates to the Haskell 2010 Report? Who even has commit rights? There’s Frank’s pull request below, and I have another important typo to fix. Thanks Simon From: Frank Steffahn [mailto:notificati...@github.com] Sent:

Re: [Haskell] Treatment of unknown pragmas

I rather agree. We don't even need a convention do we? /Any/ comment in {- -} is ignored by GHC /except/ {-# ... #-}. So tool users are free to pick whatever convention they like to identify the stuff for their tool. Simon | -Original Message- | From: ghc-devs On Behalf Of Ben Gamari

[Haskell] Postdoc and internship opportunities at Microsoft Research Cambridge

Microsoft Research Cambridge seeks * Up to two post docs * At least one intern to do research in the general area of spreadsheet technology and usability. We work in deep collaboration with the Excel team in Microsoft Office on

[Haskell] Guidelines for respectful communication

Friends As many of you will know, I have been concerned for several years about the standards of discourse in the Haskell community. I think things have improved since the period that drove me to write my Respect email,

[Haskell] Summit on Advances in Programming Languages 2019

Haskellers The Summit oN Advances in Programming Languages (SNAPL) is a biennial venue for discussions about programming languages. SNAPL focuses on experience-based insight, innovation, and visionary ideas spanning from foundations to applications of

[Haskell] Nominations close Jan 11th for the Haskell Foundation Board

Friends Happy new year! The closing date for self-nominations for membership of the Board of the Haskell Foundation is in just under a week: Monday January 11th 2021 The Haskell Foundation is a new non-profit organisation that seeks to articulate the benefits of

RE: Remove eq and show from num class

Good summary Herbert. It'd be great to have it as a page on haskell.org, rather than just in soon-lost email. Simon | -Original Message- | From: Haskell-prime [mailto:haskell-prime-boun...@haskell.org] On Behalf | Of Herbert Valerio Riedel | Sent: 08 September 2017 09:43 | To: Anthony

The Haskell Report: who maintains it?

Friends Does anyone know who, if anyone, feels responsible for committing updates to the Haskell 2010 Report? Who even has commit rights? There’s Frank’s pull request below, and I have another important typo to fix. Thanks Simon From: Frank Steffahn [mailto:notificati...@github.com] Sent:

Haskell Report 2010: pattern bindings

. I'll review and merge it now. If you let me know the typo you'd like fixed I'll make sure that gets done as well. Cheers, José Manuel On Thu, Mar 15, 2018, at 6:52 PM, Simon Peyton Jones via Haskell wrote: Friends Does anyone know who, if anyone, feels responsible for committing updates to t

RE: Quo vadis?

I think the difficulty has always been in finding enough people who are * Well-informed and well-qualified * Willing to spend the time to standardise language features GHC does not help the situation: it's a de-facto standard, which reduces the incentives to spend time in standardisation. I

RE: Quo vadis?

| That sounds like we're stuck with the committee we have. In that case, | Simon, could you at least pull some strings to have the actual Haskell | Report placed in the same repository? Sounds like a good plan. If the haskell-prime committee agreed to do this, and it's only a matter of doing

Re: [Haskell-community] 2018 state of Haskell survey

The GHC team (coincidentally) is cooking up a very short survey that is intended to help guide our strategic priorities. There is only one substantial question: Imagine that you had one developer working on GHC for six months full-time, that you were paying for yourself.

Re: [Haskell-community] 2018 state of Haskell survey

| Hi Taylor. I like the way you pose things here: "I don't expect that | to remove selection bias, but it will let me (us, really) say: We're | doing this together for the benefit of all sides". I think that's a | better place to start from. I like this too -- and like Gershom, I'd delete

Re: [Haskell-community] 2018 state of Haskell survey

Taylor On the GHC side, as I say we are going to do a 1-question GHC survey shortly, so you don't need to bother about that one. (I think it'd be too buried as one question among many in your survey.) | - Reaction to the new pace of GHC releases That would be interesting, yes. It would be

Re: [Haskell-community] Creating a new @haskell.org mailing list?

Good idea. “k12” is rather USA specific. What about educat...@haskell.org? Simon From: Haskell-community On Behalf Of Chris Smith Sent: 22 October 2018 15:32 To: Haskell-community Subject: [Haskell-community] Creating a new @haskell.org mailing list? Hey, Is

RE: A question about run-time errors when class members are undefined

Anthony You may be interested in Carlos Camarao’s interesting work. For a long time now he has advocated (in effect) making each function into its own type class, rather that grouping them into classes. Perhaps that is in line with your thinking. https://homepages.dcc.ufmg.br/~camarao/

Re: [Haskell-community] 2018 state of Haskell survey results

Just wanted to add in: good catch Gershom on identifying the problem, and thank you Taylor for working to remove them from the report. I'd like to add +1 to that. It's a source of astonishment, and some dismay, to me that anyone would go to so much trouble to affect a survey about Haskell.