Haskell modes for Emacs

1995-12-13 Thread Will Partain
junk" myself, so I don't use any of them. I will include advertising or testimonials from happy users if they send them along... Will Partain [EMAIL PROTECTED] 95/12/05 === * "Chalmers Haskell mode family" -- "

Re: New Haskell 1.3 I/O Definition

1994-12-16 Thread Will Partain
Kevin Hammond writes: "We have attempted ... to consider portability issues very carefully." But we may have missed something. For example, I don't think anyone has actually *seen* a "Win32 Programmer's Reference Manual" -- i.e., the programming interface for most of the world's computers :-(

(not the) NoFib benchmark suite available (version 0.22)

1994-07-28 Thread Will Partain
-- 1 partain 2948 Jul 27 19:50 nofib-not-0.22.README -rw-rw-r-- 1 partain 2741279 Jul 27 19:42 nofib-not-0.22.tar.gz They are mirrored on src.doc.ic.ac.uk in computing/programming/ languages/haskell/glasgow. The much higher version number than last time (from 0.00 to 0.22) does not reflect

GHC 0.21: alternate FTP site

1994-06-14 Thread Will Partain
Sorry folks, our FTP is hung, hosed, or hapless, not sure which. Happily, we are mirrored by the big archive in London, src.doc.ic.ac.uk; the relevant 0.21 files are in computing/programming/languages/haskell/glasgow/working. Please report all FTP problems at our site to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Will

[ANNOUNCE] GHC 0.28 snapshot for Linux ELF (Haskell 1.2)

1996-05-21 Thread Will Partain
should be buildable source; haven't actually tried it... A particular thanks to Peter Breuer [EMAIL PROTECTED], who ELFified our Linux machine for us. Please report any bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Will Partain AQUA project (slave) Dated: 96/05/21 ==

Re: Haskell library

1992-02-17 Thread Will Partain
Lennart Augustsson writes: The Haskell library seems to be contain few entries (none to be exact), so I've decided to add something. ... Actually, I've put the Haskell-y bits from Stephen Bevan's archive into the library here at Glasgow

glorious Glasgow Haskell compiler, 0.06, PATCH 1

1992-03-30 Thread Will Partain
0.06 is a pre-release for hackers, porters, and enthusiasts. It is unlikely to be useful to someone just trying to get a Haskell program running. (I can recommend Lennart's HBC system for that :-) Will Partain #!/bin/sh # This is a shell archive (produced by shar 3.49) # To extract the files from

some haskell FAQ info (occasional posting, long)

1992-10-27 Thread Will Partain
Haskell: Current status Simon Peyton Jones, Phil Wadler, Will Partain Cordy Hall, Kevin Hammond Dept of Computing Science, Glasgow University, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Glasgow Haskell 0.10 available for Sun3s and porting

1993-01-30 Thread Will Partain
that we can avoid duplicated efforts. Reminders: Glasgow Haskell, version 0.10, was released in early December, 1992. It is best supported on Sun4s, and there is a Sun4 binary distribution available, along with the complete source. Will Partain

Glasgow Haskell compiler, version 0.16, available

1993-07-14 Thread Will Partain
e previous GHC release (0.10) [least likely], or the Chalmers HBC compiler [in-between]. Please see the appropriate documentation for details. Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and direct general queries to glasgow-haskell-request@same. Will Partain (typist for the AQUA [formerly GRAS

Glasgow Haskell 0.16 documents in PostScript available

1993-07-26 Thread Will Partain
A couple of people have asked about PostScript versions of the documentation bits of GHC 0.16. I've put these in ghc-0.16-docs-in-PostScript.tar.gz (gzipped, 743KB), available by anonymous FTP from ftp.dcs.glasgow.ac.uk, in pub/haskell/glasgow/; the contents list is attached. Will Partain

Glasgow Haskell non-release snapshot, v 0.17, available

1993-08-18 Thread Will Partain
cludes enough intermediate C (.hc) files to be able to boot without already having a Haskell compiler. If you don't need those files, just do: % cd ghc/compiler % rm */*.hc % cd ../lib % rm */*.hc As usual, comments to glasgow-haskell-{bugs,request}@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk. Will Partain

Glasgow Haskell, v 0.16+, slightly available for DECstations, HP workstations

1993-09-10 Thread Will Partain
ck somewhere, keep the "docs" directory, and throw the rest away. Let me know if anything doesn't work. Will Partain [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Haskell 1.3 [instances]

1993-11-11 Thread Will Partain
Ian Holyer writes: The current restriction that instances must be defined either in the class module or the type module is painful. LISTEN TO THIS MAN! Trying to use the module system in (what we imagined to be) a sensible way on the Glasgow Haskell compiler [which is written in

Re: Int vs Integer

1998-09-10 Thread Will Partain
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As far as I know, none of the existing implementations takes the speed of Integer seriously (ghc certainly doesn't), ... The GHC implementation has always been a thin wrapper on top of the GMP (GNU multi-precision arithmetic) library. So, while we may not have

code for XML things? sysadmin things?

1998-09-18 Thread Will Partain
Hi, folks. I'm noodling around on some (Unix) sysadmin ideas, and would like to use Haskell and XML (http://www.xml.com). Does anyone have code to share that might be *vaguely* useful for XML-ish things? -- I'm mainly interested in it as a data-exchange format. Or for any sysadmin-ish purpose

Re: Gif writer module

1998-09-18 Thread Will Partain
"Keith S. Wansbrough" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... Having a single unified repository for Haskell modules would be a wonderful thing. Does anyone else agree? Yes, lots of people agree, most importantly Sigbjorn :-) We (Glaswegians) tried to do a "Haskell library" in the early days, but not

Re: Question

1999-08-20 Thread Will Partain
I don't think the development tools are the real problem; it's the size of the pile of readily-available Haskell modules (and {libraries,sets} of modules) that do useful things. Nowadays, when setting out to tackle a programming problem (in any language), you kinda hope that big chunks of the

Re: Question

1999-08-20 Thread Will Partain
Marko Schuetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... It has taken the Haskell community quite some time to switch to liberal licenses. IIRC only Hugs used to come with a license at all, neither hbc, ghc nor nhc used to have one for quite some time. GHC has always had a "liberal license", it just

Re: Cryptarithm solver - Haskell vs. C++

1999-09-22 Thread Will Partain
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk) writes: I have to care how fast my programs run. I like writing in Haskell very much, it's my favorite general-purpose language, but one of the biggest weak points of Haskell for me is poor efficiency (at least with ghc, I don't know how fast are

Glasgow Haskell 0.25 available (for Linux only)

1995-04-01 Thread William D. Partain
As far as we know, all Haskell code goes through GHC with a -monly-2-regs flag (but it produces substantially worse code with that flag). Profiling is not provided in this release. Please report any bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Will Partain AQUA project (slave) Dated: 95/04/01 === INSTALLATION NOTES =