Re: Haskell and the NGWS Runtime

On Fri, 11 Aug 2000 12:06:55 -0500 John David Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Replying to Fergus Henderson's complaints about > non-portable HMTL in the web > document at http://commnet.pdc.mscorpevents.com/sessions.asp, > R. S. Nikhil > writes: > > > And is Netscape Communicator 4.61 on Li

Re: Haskell and the NGWS Runtime

On 11-Aug-2000, Sylvan Ravinet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, R.S. Nikhil wrote: > > And is Netscape Communicator 4.61 on Linux (bugs and all) a definitive > > test of portable HTML? :-) > > Actually it seems to be quite readable by lynx... Yes -- that's the worst part. In L

Re: Haskell and the NGWS Runtime

> No. A definitive test is to submit the page to the validator at the World > Wide Web Consortium's web site (http://validator.w3.com/), which (not > surprisingly) finds 455 HTML errors, beginning with the absence of a document > type declaration. I bet you that 99% web pages

Re: Haskell and the NGWS Runtime

Sylvan Ravinet wrote: > Do, or do not. There's no try. -Yoda Pedantic not to be, but in contractions speak, does Yoda not. Is quote, "Do, or do not. There is no 'try'." Craig

RE: Haskell and the NGWS Runtime

On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, R.S. Nikhil wrote: > And is Netscape Communicator 4.61 on Linux (bugs and all) a definitive > test of portable HTML? :-) Actually it seems to be quite readable by lynx... -Sylvan -- Do, or do not. There's no try. -Yoda Sylvan Ravinet: http://www.ravinet.com/sylvan/contact

Re: Haskell and the NGWS Runtime

I wrote: > ... http://validator.w3.com/ ... which should be http://validator.w3.org/. Sorry about that ... -- John David Stone - Lecturer in Computer Science and Philosophy Manager of the Mathematics Local-Area Network Grinnell College - Grinnell, Iowa 50112 - U

Re: Haskell and the NGWS Runtime

Replying to Fergus Henderson's complaints about non-portable HMTL in the web document at http://commnet.pdc.mscorpevents.com/sessions.asp, R. S. Nikhil writes: > And is Netscape Communicator 4.61 on Linux (bugs and all) a definitive > test of portable HTML? :-) No. A definitive test

Re: GC in embedded systems (was Re: Haskell and the NGWS Runtime)

George Russell wrote: > (Is there anything better than Baker's train algorithm?) Sorry, I meant "treadmill" not "train". The train algorithm is an almost-bounded garbage collection algorithm. (However it fails to be properly bounded if you have large numbers of in-pointers to a node.)

Re: GC in embedded systems (was Re: Haskell and the NGWS Runtime)

Sengan wrote: > I don't buy this: for a long time the embedded hard realtime people > refused to use CPUs with cache because they would be > "non-deterministic". > They finally gave up, realizing that CPU's with caches are much faster. > If garbage collection is relatively cheap and makes it 10x f

Re: Haskell and the NGWS Runtime

On 11-Aug-2000, R.S. Nikhil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Fergus Henderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Friday, August 11, 2000 4:18 AM > > ... > > > > In particular . > > However, as seems to be usual

Re: GC in embedded systems (was Re: Haskell and the NGWS Runtime)

> On Fri 11 Aug, Byron Hale wrote: > > Also, garbage collection is unlikely to satisfy any need > > for automatic memory management in real-time systems for the foreseeable > > future because an extra thread on a single processor is still > > non-deterministic. I don't buy this: for a long time t

Re: Haskell and the NGWS Runtime

Antony Courtney wrote: > But Java also has a way to do "rampant pointer-level > optimization": You declare a method as "native" and > then implement it in C. That's hardly the same thing, though. Of course an FFI allows you do to all sorts of things, but at least it's very clear, from the fact

RE: Haskell and the NGWS Runtime

> -Original Message- > From: Fergus Henderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, August 11, 2000 4:18 AM > ... > > In particular . > However, as seems to be usual (%*&^#*&^#@!) for MS, this page is NOT > written in portable HTML.

Re: Haskell and the NGWS Runtime

At 4:59 pm -0230 10/8/00, Theodore Norvell wrote: >With Haskell# or Mondrian: Can I use C# to create an instance of >a Haskell class? Can I use Haskell to extend a C# abstract class? >I suspect the answer to both these questions is currently no. >If future versions of .NET and Haskell variants cha

RE: doubles

| -Original Message- | From: Jan Skibinski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] | Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 3:11 PM | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: Re: doubles | | | | > | > Aha . And how many digits will GHC offer me? | | I would think that you will get

Re: Haskell and the NGWS Runtime

On 02-Aug-2000, Doug Ransom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The PDC slides and white papers should be available if you dig > through this site: > http://commnet.pdc.mscorpevents.com/default.asp In particular . However, as seems to be usual (%*&^#*&^

Re: Haskell and the NGWS Runtime

On 11-Aug-2000, Manuel M. T. Chakravarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ketil Malde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote, > > > "Manuel M. T. Chakravarty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > A good analysis of were C# fits re Java and C++ is at > > > > > > http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/08/09/161

Re: GC in embedded systems (was Re: Haskell and the NGWS Runtime)

Byron Hale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote, > At 05:21 AM 8/11/2000 +0100, you wrote: > >On Fri 11 Aug, Byron Hale wrote: > > > Also, garbage collection is unlikely to satisfy any need > > > for automatic memory management in real-time systems for the foreseeable > > > future because an extra thread on