Re: ANNOUNCE: Draft TOC of Haskell in a Nutshell

2001-01-09 Thread Brook Conner
"real" application, say a GUIed > JPEG viewer, where you sort of string it all (the JPEG codec, a C > library interface for something or other, and GUI stuff, etc.) > together into a whole? This morning I've been thinking about data visualization from an SQL DB >

ANNOUNCE: Draft TOC of Haskell in a Nutshell

2001-01-08 Thread Brook Conner
kinds of things you'd typically do with Perl or C++. I think it needs more "recipes" of course, but I'd like to know if the general idea is working. Brook ps - for the curious, I have in fact written a textbook before (object-oriented programming for a first-semester course, fro

HUMOR: Perl and Haskell

2000-01-30 Thread Brook
sion of GHC installed (3.02 at least). This > release is known to work on the following platforms: Brook (who thought the gamasutra article was really quite nice - got me thinking about things I haven't much thought about since I was teaching Self at Brown) Klactovedestene!

Re: Ray tracing again

2000-01-04 Thread Brook
custom FFT routines, or Self's dynamic compilation. Graphics problems, oddly, have a lot of the same solutions as programming language and compilation problems. Most graphics people don't quite grok that. Most PL people don't know enough about the graphics algorithms to apply the PL solutions. IMNSHO, YMMV, etc. etc. Every time graphics people start talking about 3D file formats, they get into an argument about lexical scope, but don't realize it, because they're talking about lights, not "variables". Brook Klactovedestene!