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

2008-07-14 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:39:11 +0200, Tillmann Rendel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Benjamin L.Russell wrote: > [...] > >A quick web search revealed that quite a number of programming languages >have [EMAIL PROTECTED] lists. Interestingly, their description invariantly >includes the term "a friendly

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

2008-07-14 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:28:53 +0100, "Claus Reinke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > >What is needed is a discussion of list charter. The only thing I've >seen was "Discussion about beginner questions and issues in >teaching Haskell", with the implicit assumption that those beginners >are non

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

2008-07-14 Thread Stefan Monnier
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (I like the plural better too, thanks Dan) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] FWIW, the GNU projects typically have mailing lists called "bug" for bug reports, and "help" for general discussions. So "help" sounds pretty good. But... bikeshed ahead! Stefa

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

2008-07-14 Thread Claus Reinke
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (I like the plural better too, thanks Dan) That might be useable, but is likely to suffer from the variety of Haskell beginner backgrounds and the resulting variety of initial interests (topics that got them interested in Haskell, or that would help them to get up to speed wi

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

2008-07-14 Thread Tillmann Rendel
Benjamin L.Russell wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Although this name definitely captures the flavor of the mailing list and also conveys a sense of community (with the addition of the 's,' thanks to Dan Licata), the double-n is easy to mistake for beginners, and a new user would probably have difficu

Re[2]: [Haskell] Re: on starting Haskell-Edu, a new education-related Haskell-related mailing list

2008-07-14 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Peter, Monday, July 14, 2008, 3:24:36 PM, you wrote: > Well, if somebody can't spell "beginners" correctly, I highly doubt they i really doesn't understand the problem - they will select from list, not type it. i think that beginners, novice or smth like this should be good - people will j

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

2008-07-14 Thread Martijn van Steenbergen
minh thu wrote: [snip] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Although this name definitely captures the flavor of the mailing list and also conveys a sense of community (with the addition of the 's,' thanks to Dan Licata), the double-n is easy to mistake for beginners, and a new user would probably have difficulty

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

2008-07-14 Thread minh thu
> [snip] > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Although this name definitely captures the > flavor of the mailing list and also conveys a sense of community (with > the addition of the 's,' thanks to Dan Licata), the double-n is easy > to mistake for beginners, and a new user would probably have > difficulty remem

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

2008-07-14 Thread Peter Verswyvelen
Well, if somebody can't spell "beginners" correctly, I highly doubt they will get "alpha" right... Certainly if they drive an Alfa Romeo car ;) Even so, another alternative would just be "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"... > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On B

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

2008-07-14 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:04:04 +0100, Simon Marlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Best suggestions I've seen so far: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (I like the plural better too, thanks Dan) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >let me know your preference (privately, unless you have anything else to

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

2008-07-14 Thread Benjamin L. Russell
--- On Mon, 7/14/08, Angelos Sphyris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Angelos Sphyris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Haskell] Re: on starting Haskell-Edu,a new education-related > Haskell-related mailing list > To: "Benjamin L.Russell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Monday, July 14, 2008,

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

2008-07-14 Thread Simon Marlow
Best suggestions I've seen so far: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (I like the plural better too, thanks Dan) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] let me know your preference (privately, unless you have anything else to add to the discussion). Cheers, Simon