need some info/help

2003-09-03 Thread Pratik Bhadra
Hi I know there is a general consensus about finding out new things to use with Haskell but I am quite a newcomer in this field and am attempting to write a compiler and a runtime system in Haskell. At this important juncture I would like to ask for some help with some resources, books or links wh

Re: Haskell for non-Haskell sake

2003-09-03 Thread Luc Taesch
Short version : I'm using Haskell in the field of Business Modeling, mainly Banking and Finance. The Idea is to be able to specify (properly), test and experiment by playing with models, before deploying them into applications ( in Cobol, Java, ... why not in haskell one day.. ;-) Short term, I u

Haskell for non-Haskell sake

2003-09-03 Thread Gordon James Miller
I'm currently examining using Haskell for doing numerical modelling of middle atmospheric photochemistry for my PhD work. I've long been troubled by the disconnect between the mathematical formulation of physical laws as found in textbooks and the imperative formulation of them in C/Fortran/Java.

Re: Haskell for non-Haskell's sake

2003-09-03 Thread Manuel M T Chakravarty
Graham's post reminded me. We have been using a 1000 LOC Haskell program to automatically test and grade two assignments in a course on Distributed Systems (where assignments are implemented in C and Erlang). The testing program is, in fact, general purpose in that it implements an EDSL for marki

Re: Haskell for non-Haskell's sake

2003-09-03 Thread Graham Hutton
I use Haskell for processing the examination marks of our 900 students. Our University has a system that can do all of this, but to ensure that I understood all the rules and regulations I coded up a simple version in Haskell, which comprises around 400 lines. It takes a CSV (comma separated valu