re. A Good Story

1993-04-01 Thread nikhil
Paul Hudak writes: For every bad story there is a good one. For every bad story there are two good ones. Recently, a local hospital suffered many malpractice suits due to faulty software in their X-Ray machine. So, they decided to rewrite the code in Haskell for more reliability.

A Good Story

1993-04-01 Thread Clifford Beshers
David Wakeling writes: Yes, Certainly. Here at York we have a small electrical hoist in one of the Departmental stairwells which is used for lifting expensive and delicate equipment onto the upper floor of the building. As part of an experiment in real time functional programming,

Re: a note on the Haskerl extension to Haskell [long]

1993-04-01 Thread Nick North
I applaud the intention of the Haskerl group to make the use of Haskell easier and, in the same spirit, I would like to suggest some further extensions to make "literate" programming easier. Most Haskell users (and certainly all Haskell compiler writers) also use LaTeX, so I suggest that

Re: a note on the Haskerl extension to Haskell [long]

1993-04-01 Thread jhf
I know it's late in the day for most of you (or already tomorrow), but a colleague of mine here at Los Alamos has made a suggestion I just have to pass along: Will Partain writes |We might then match against a list of Foos (type "[Foo]") as follows: | |case expr of | /^{Foo1 _

Re: a note on the Haskerl extension to Haskell

1993-04-01 Thread jhf
David Wakeling writes |Yes, Certainly. Here at York we have a small electrical hoist in one of the |Departmental stairwells which is used for lifting expensive and delicate |equipment onto the upper floor of the building. As part of an experiment in |real time functional programming, I wrote a