Re: Advantages of Paper
I find it therefore of concern that many crucial Haskell documents, including the standard and, for example, the various Glasgow Haskell manuals, are only available online. My printed copy of the Haskell 98 report is numbered: YaleU/DCS/RR-1106 Copies can no doubt be obtained from the Yale Haskell Group though I'm afraid I don't know who you should write to or how much money to send. It would be a good idea if haskell.org described how to get a copy but I don't know who maintains those pages. As it is, you have to infer the existence of a Yale tech report for the language from the fact that the language report cites a tech report for the library :-) [I'm less concerned about GHC documentation because it comes with the compiler and it seems unlikely that you'd want one and not the other.] -- Alastair Reid[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.cs.utah.edu/~reid/ ___ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
Re: Advantages of Paper
We're not really in a position to mail out bound copies of the Haskell report. We generally distribute our tech reports in electronic form and haven't even been asked for paper copies in years. I've got a few bound Haskell reports that I give to visitors but we don't plan to print any more. It would be nice if the report was published in book form someday! The original problem here is that there's no comprehensive archive of Haskell related research papers. At one point we were maintaining a set of useful papers at haskell.org by hand (Olaf did all the hard work ...) but it's not really feasable to do any of the haskell.org maintainence by hand anymore. I've been slowly putting together software to automate haskell.org - forms for adding new applications, libraries, documents, and anything else that you could want. However, I'm not done and really need help to get things finished. In general, haskell.org is open to anyone that wants to work on these things and I would highly encourage anyone with time available to pitch in! I think haskell.org is the right place to give documents a permant home and will be glad to assist anyone that wants to work on this with me. John ___ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
Re: Advantages of Paper
Alastair David Reid wrote: I find it therefore of concern that many crucial Haskell documents, including the standard and, for example, the various Glasgow Haskell manuals, are only available online. My printed copy of the Haskell 98 report is numbered: YaleU/DCS/RR-1106 [snip] Er, are you sure? According to ftp://ftp.cs.yale.edu/pub/TR/LISTING TR1106 is The Haskell 1.3 Language Version and comes from 1996. (Earlier versions of the Haskell Report also appear with separate numbers in this listing). http://citeseer.nj.nec.com doesn't appear to know of any later print versions. ___ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
