Re: [Haskell-cafe] Mascot Poll Results

2011-11-27 Thread scooter....@gmail.com
-1 (no mascot). As a amusing as a slacker dude might be, out doesn't send the right message.There's a reason why RMS isn't the mascot for FSF, for example. Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Phone ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskel

Re: [Haskell-cafe] How to get a file path to the program invoked?

2011-12-04 Thread scooter....@gmail.com
It's not a poor practice at all. Example: gcc, which uses the executable's path as the base directory from which other files are located. MacOS also does something similar. -Original message- From: Paul R To: dokondr Cc: Simon Hengel , haskell-cafe Sent: Sun, Dec 4, 2011 15:26:2

Re: [Haskell-cafe] How to get a file path to the program invoked?

2011-12-04 Thread scooter....@gmail.com
That's true even for regular fork/exec. -Original message- From: Richard O'Keefe To: wren ng thornton Cc: haskell-cafe Sent: Sun, Dec 4, 2011 15:54:15 PST Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] How to get a file path to the program invoked? On 4/12/2011, at 7:32 PM, wren ng thornton wrote: Par

Re: [Haskell-cafe] If you'd design a Haskell-like language, what would you do different?

2011-12-20 Thread scooter....@gmail.com
I'd suggest, in addition to the symbols, renaming some of the fundamental types and concepts, like Monad. I would violently agree that Monad is the correct term, but try to communicate with a commodity software developer sometime (or a government acquisition professional). RWH goes a long way to

Re: [Haskell-cafe] If you'd design a Haskell-like language, what would you do different?

2011-12-20 Thread scooter....@gmail.com
I'd suggest, in addition to the symbols, renaming some of the fundamental types and concepts, like Monad. I would violently agree that Monad is the correct term, but try to communicate with a commodity software developer sometime (or a government acquisition professional). RWH goes a long way to