Who is working on a Haskell debugger?

2000-03-23 Thread Andy Gill
There are various people working on Haskell debuggers and debugging technology throughout the Haskell community. This is very exciting, but the debugging effort is fragmented, so much so that it is difficult to track who is doing what! This email is an attempt to gather information about what is

Re: runtime optimization of haskell

2000-03-23 Thread Jan-Willem Maessen
I'm not currently working on dynamic compilation, but I went to Vasanth Bala's talks at the Dynamic Compilation Workshop before PoPL and later at MIT. I, too, was intrigued by the possibility of doing this sort of dynamic compilation for functional languages. I've given the technical points some

runtime optimization of haskell

2000-03-23 Thread Colin . Runciman
D. Tweed wrote: | I'm just curious if there's anyone in the Haskell/FP community working on | such things? (The closest thing I'm aware of is David Lester's stuff on | throw away compilation (sorry no pointer)) Perhaps you were thinking of David *Wakeling*'s work? See: David Wakeling, The dynam

Re: runtime optimization of haskell

2000-03-23 Thread D. Tweed
On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, D. Tweed wrote: > such things? (The closest thing I'm aware of is David Lester's stuff on > throw away compilation (sorry no pointer)) It just seems that functional As Julian Seward kindly mentioned to me, I meant David Wakeling. ___cheers,_dave_

Re: ncurses binding?

2000-03-23 Thread Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
23 Mar 2000 20:27:13 +0900, Jens-Ulrik Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pisze: > Do any of you know of an (n)curses binding written in Haskell? http://qrczak.ids.net.pl/Curses.hs might be a very incomplete starting point (for GHC). I don't plan to continue it soon, I only needed it for some experime

runtime optimization of haskell

2000-03-23 Thread D. Tweed
This is just a curious thought: happened to read http://www.arstechnica.com/reviews/1q00/dynamo/dynamo-1.html which makes the very interesting point that optimizingcompilers have a difficult job given that they don't know the relative importances of various paths of execution through the program

Re: HaskellDoc?

2000-03-23 Thread Manuel M. T. Chakravarty
Jan Skibinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote, > On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Volker Wysk wrote: > > (Message didn't get through the first time. Reposting.) > I tried to put an idea across that we do not need any > tags whatsoever for any of those facilities. > I really mean it. Neither XML ba

ncurses binding?

2000-03-23 Thread Jens-Ulrik Petersen
Do any of you know of an (n)curses binding written in Haskell? Thanks, Jens

Re: HaskellDoc?

2000-03-23 Thread Jan Skibinski
On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Volker Wysk wrote: > (Message didn't get through the first time. Reposting.) > > > Hi > > What you suggest sounds like a solution that's easy to learn, useful, and > can be implemented with modest effort. It might be the a good solution > for the problem at hand, documen