Re: [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: Introducing Sifflet, visual functional programming language

2010-05-14 Thread Gregory D. Weber
No, it's aimed at beginning-level programming students, especially those who are struggling with the idea of recursion. So, not only is it not intended as a full-featured real world programming language, but it is definitely not suited for that purpose: -- Very small set of build-in functions. -

[Haskell] Modular type inference

2010-05-14 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
Friends Many of you will know that I've been muttering about re-engineering GHC's type inference engine for some time now. Dimitrios, Tom, Martin and I have just completed an epic paper describing the Glorious New Framework that forms the substance of the above mutterings: http://haske

[Haskell] Final Call for Papers: VSTTE workshops on Theory and on Experiments & Tools

2010-05-14 Thread Gudmund Grov
-- Apologies for multiple copies -- VSTTE 2010: Workshops on Theories, Tools and Experiments Edinburgh, Scotland, 19th August 2010 (*** only 1 week to go! *) The Third International Conference on Verified Software: Theories, Tools, and Experiments (VSTT