Re: Licenses and Libraries

1999-09-21 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Hannah Schroeter wrote: > > Frankly, I'd like it to use Corba from Haskell with ORBit > alone rather to have to install much additional Gnome stuff I'm > probably not using elsewhere anyway. > I just joined the list and the archives seem incomplete, so apologies if this ha

Re: Cryptarithm solver - Haskell vs. C++

1999-09-21 Thread George Russell
Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote: [snip] > Maybe it's simply not possible to compile Haskell more efficiently? Maybe not yet. But someday we'll have enough processing power to do really sophisticated whole-program analysis, including decent region analysis. A lot of the techniques have already b

Re: Cryptarithm solver - Haskell vs. C++

1999-09-21 Thread D. Tweed
On 21 Sep 1999, Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote: > Sat, 18 Sep 1999 00:06:37 +0200 (MET DST), Juergen Pfitzenmaier ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pisze: > > > I dont't care very much how fast a program runs. I care about how > > long it takes me to write it. If you take a programming task of > > reasonab

Re: debugging

1999-09-21 Thread Manuel M. T. Chakravarty
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (S.D.Mechveliani) wrote, > Mark Engelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 20 Sep 1999 > > > > How do you guys debug your Haskell programs? As far as I can tell, none of > > the compilers support any sort of source debugging. > > > Indeed. In earlier GHC versions there was

Re: debugging

1999-09-21 Thread Kwanghoon Choi
> > Indeed. In earlier GHC versions there was the Trace library with the > `trace' function. > Where it is now? IOExts.hs has trace function. Your program has to import IOExts module. When compiling using GHC, the option "-fglasgow-exts" must be given. I hope that there will be some standard w

Re: Cryptarithm solver - Haskell vs. C++

1999-09-21 Thread Jan Skibinski
On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, D. Tweed wrote: > Sometimes the problem that you're working on requires such > a lot of computation (e.g., typical image processing stuff) that no > savings from reduced writing time can by a machine fast enough to > compensate for the slow-down. I agree. The argum

Re: Cryptarithm solver - Haskell vs. C++

1999-09-21 Thread Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
Sat, 18 Sep 1999 00:06:37 +0200 (MET DST), Juergen Pfitzenmaier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pisze: > I dont't care very much how fast a program runs. I care about how > long it takes me to write it. If you take a programming task of > reasonable complexity you will finish *months* earlier using a > --go

Re: Wanted: a Business Programming Language!

1999-09-21 Thread Wolfram Kahl
J.P. Morrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on the dataflow list: > > I have been in the IT business for about 40 years, and have been > maintaining PL/I programs intensively for the last year or so. In 1994 > I wrote a book called "Flow Based Programming" which was quite well > recei

Re: debugging

1999-09-21 Thread S.D.Mechveliani
Mark Engelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 20 Sep 1999 > How do you guys debug your Haskell programs? As far as I can tell, none of > the compilers support any sort of source debugging. Indeed. In earlier GHC versions there was the Trace library with the `trace' function. Where it is no