Line drawing algorithms

1999-03-16 Thread Tim Bishop
Hi everyone, I'm after an algorithm, in Haskell (primarily Hugs), that will generate a list of points for a line, given the start and end points. I've looked at the Bresenham and it looks good, but turning the mathematical formulae into code looks tricky. If someone has already done this it woul

Haskell The Craft of Functional Programming: Second Edition

1999-03-16 Thread S.J.Thompson
This is to announce the publication in the UK of the second edition of Haskell: The Craft of Functional Programming Simon Thompson Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-34275-8 http://www.cs.ukc.ac.uk/people/staff/sjt/craft2e The book is available now in the UK, and will

WORKSHOP: Functional and Declarative Programming in Education 1999

1999-03-16 Thread S.J.Thompson
Functional and Declarative Programming in Education 1999 A one day workshop at PLI 99, 29 September 1999 http://www.cs.ukc.ac.uk/people/staff/sjt/Misc/DPE99.html Goal: Functional and d

Re: Variables ?

1999-03-16 Thread Craig Dickson
Tim Bishop wrote: >I am relatively new to Haskell, and I'm using Hugs 1.4. > >My my source of programming is Java, with the odd bit of basic thrown in >for good measure. > >Now one of the first things I notice about Haskell is that there don't seem >to be variables in the same sense that there ar

Variables ?

1999-03-16 Thread Tim Bishop
I am relatively new to Haskell, and I'm using Hugs 1.4. My my source of programming is Java, with the odd bit of basic thrown in for good measure. Now one of the first things I notice about Haskell is that there don't seem to be variables in the same sense that there are in other programming lan