Re: [Haskell] Re: on starting Haskell-Edu, a new education-related Haskell-related mailing list

2008-07-11 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On 2008 Jul 11, at 11:33, Neil Mitchell wrote: Quite true. Any objections to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Google suggests that about 1 in 50 web pages spell "beginner" wrong, using only one "n". Given that many Haskeller's are not native speakers, could we perhaps pick something that is easier to spell

Re: [Haskell] Re: on starting Haskell-Edu, a new education-related Haskell-related mailing list

2008-07-11 Thread Chad Wilson
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Peter Verswyvelen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "beginner" sounds so humble... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]@haskell.org (for the experts) *chuckle* Sorry, I just had to reply. -w ___ Haskell

RE: [Haskell] Re: on starting Haskell-Edu, a new education-related Haskell-related mailing list

2008-07-11 Thread Peter Verswyvelen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] "beginner" sounds so humble... Cheers, Peter Verswyvelen www.anygma.com > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Neil Mitchell > Sent: vrijdag 11 juli 2008 17:33 > To: Simon Marlow > Cc: Bayley, Alistair; haskell@haskell.o

[Haskell] Re: on starting Haskell-Edu, a new education-related Haskell-related mailing list

2008-07-11 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I participate in various lists and various forums. That Haskell uses > lists has crippled my participation here; I am quite sure I am not > alone. Nabble and the like do not substitute for real forum software. Funny, it's the first time I hear the argument in this direction. The only forums I

Re: [Haskell] Re: on starting Haskell-Edu, a new education-related Haskell-related mailing list

2008-07-11 Thread Dan Licata
On Jul11, Simon Marlow wrote: > Quite true. Any objections to [EMAIL PROTECTED] How about [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? I think the plural conveys more of a sense of community than the singular. -Dan ___ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.has

Re: [Haskell] Re: on starting Haskell-Edu, a new education-related Haskell-related mailing list

2008-07-11 Thread Neil Mitchell
Hi > Quite true. Any objections to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Google suggests that about 1 in 50 web pages spell "beginner" wrong, using only one "n". Given that many Haskeller's are not native speakers, could we perhaps pick something that is easier to spell correctly? Thanks Neil ___

Re: [Haskell] Re: on starting Haskell-Edu, a new education-related Haskell-related mailing list

2008-07-11 Thread Simon Marlow
Bayley, Alistair wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Benjamin L.Russell The only issue is the name of the new list, though: it would seem a better idea to keep the name mnemonic and short, with the suffix following "Haskell-" within three or four characters.

Re: [Haskell] Re: on starting Haskell-Edu, a new education-related Haskell-related mailing list

2008-07-11 Thread Simon Marlow
Jonathan Cast wrote: On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 15:04 +0100, Sittampalam, Ganesh wrote: Dave Bayer wrote: I participate in various lists and various forums. That Haskell uses lists has crippled my participation here; I am quite sure I am not alone. Nabble and the like do not substitute for real f

Re: [Haskell] Re: on starting Haskell-Edu, a new education-related Haskell-related mailing list

2008-07-11 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On 2008 Jul 11, at 9:54, Jonathan Cast wrote: On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 08:47 -0400, Chad Wilson wrote: From previous experience with this sort of thing (the expansion of usage for a list(s)), I am thinking you guys have entered a territory better served by a forum. One subscription gets you acc

RE: [Haskell] Re: on starting Haskell-Edu, a new education-related Haskell-related mailing list

2008-07-11 Thread Jonathan Cast
On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 15:04 +0100, Sittampalam, Ganesh wrote: > Dave Bayer wrote: > > > I participate in various lists and > > various forums. That Haskell uses > > lists has crippled my participation > > here; I am quite sure I am not alone. > > Nabble and the like do not substitute > > for re

RE: [Haskell] Re: on starting Haskell-Edu, a new education-related Haskell-related mailing list

2008-07-11 Thread Sittampalam, Ganesh
Dave Bayer wrote: > I participate in various lists and > various forums. That Haskell uses > lists has crippled my participation > here; I am quite sure I am not alone. > Nabble and the like do not substitute > for real forum software. I'm sure you're not alone, but I'm equally sure that there

Re: [Haskell] Re: on starting Haskell-Edu, a new education-related Haskell-related mailing list

2008-07-11 Thread Jonathan Cast
On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 08:47 -0400, Chad Wilson wrote: > >From previous experience with this sort of thing (the expansion of > usage for a list(s)), I am thinking you guys have entered a territory > better served by a forum. One subscription gets you access to the > cafe, announcements, n00b sectio

Re: [Haskell] Re: on starting Haskell-Edu, a new education-related Haskell-related mailing list

2008-07-11 Thread minh thu
2008/7/11 Dave Bayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Jul 11, 2008, at 5:47 AM, Chad Wilson wrote: > >> From previous experience with this sort of thing (the expansion of >> usage for a list(s)), I am thinking you guys have entered a territory >> better served by a forum. One subscription gets you access

Re: [Haskell] Re: on starting Haskell-Edu, a new education-related Haskell-related mailing list

2008-07-11 Thread Dave Bayer
On Jul 11, 2008, at 5:47 AM, Chad Wilson wrote: From previous experience with this sort of thing (the expansion of usage for a list(s)), I am thinking you guys have entered a territory better served by a forum. One subscription gets you access to the cafe, announcements, n00b section, teachers,

RE: [Haskell] Re: on starting Haskell-Edu, a new education-related Haskell-related mailing list

2008-07-11 Thread Bayley, Alistair
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Benjamin L.Russell > > The only issue is the name of the new list, though: it would seem a > better idea to keep the name mnemonic and short, with the suffix > following "Haskell-" within three or four characters. Typing > "[EMA

Re: [Haskell] Re: on starting Haskell-Edu, a new education-related Haskell-related mailing list

2008-07-11 Thread Chad Wilson
>From previous experience with this sort of thing (the expansion of usage for a list(s)), I am thinking you guys have entered a territory better served by a forum. One subscription gets you access to the cafe, announcements, n00b section, teachers, core functions, etc. While a forum lacks the conv

[Haskell] Re: on starting Haskell-Edu, a new education-related Haskell-related mailing list

2008-07-11 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
Please allow me to thank everybody for their feedback. So far, including the three private messages I have received, there have been the following responses on creating a new mailing list for Haskell: Haskell-Beginner (or Haskell-Edu for beginners): 8 votes Haskell-Edu (for teaching): 2 vote

[Haskell] ANN: Takusen 0.8.3

2008-07-11 Thread Alistair Bayley
Changes since 0.8.1 (I put 0.8.2 up on hackage with an error in Setup.hs, so it's been skipped): - ODBC support: datetime marshalling is improved. For bind parameters this uses the timestamp struct for most back-ends, but String for MS SQL Server because populating the timestamp struct alwa

[Haskell] topics vs lists

2008-07-11 Thread Claus Reinke
[third attempt to avoid being blocked with: "Message has a suspicious header":-(] it's not obvious to me that both of those needs should be served by a single list. I believe it's important that the mailing lists served by haskell.org should have clear non-overlapping topics. For those case