Re: [Haskell] [Haskell-cafe] Static analysis engineering at Facebook (Clang/OCaml)

2017-07-27 Thread Don Stewart
Link moved, apply here: https://www.facebook.com/careers/jobs/a0I120LT8aAEAT On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 12:39 PM, Shannon Sequeira < shannonseque...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Don, the job link appears to be broken. > > Best, > Shannon Sequeira > > On 26 July 2017 at 1

[Haskell] Static analysis engineering at Facebook (Clang/OCaml)

2017-07-26 Thread Don Stewart
The Infer static analysis team at Facebook is hiring. We have a functional programming engineering role in London to work on the open source Clang/C++ frontend to Infer. Infer is a static analysis suite for C++, Java and Objective C used by thousands of engineers at Facebook and elsewhere to find

[Haskell] 10 open roles in expanding team at Standard Chartered

2016-06-03 Thread Don Stewart
I have another ten open roles in the growing Strats team at Standard Chartered. https://donsbot.wordpress.com/2016/06/03/multiple-haskell-developer-roles-in-strats-at-standard-chartered/ These are full time or contract Haskell developer positions in London or Singapore. Details in the post . ___

[Haskell] Dev/tools/git/Haskell role in London

2016-05-24 Thread Don Stewart
https://donsbot.wordpress.com/2016/05/24/haskell-devtoolsgit-role-at-standard-chartered-london/ I have a new role at SCB this time in the "Modelling Infrastructure" team to work on our Haskell-based continuous integration and testing system on top of git. This is a London role. More details in th

[Haskell] Three Haskell dev roles at Standard Chartered

2016-03-23 Thread Don Stewart
Hi all I'm hiring another 3 devs to join Strats at Standard Chartered in London or Singapore. This is a good chance to join a growing, experienced team using Haskell for a wide set of projects in finance. More details in https://donsbot.wordpress.com/2016/03/23/haskell-developer-roles-at-standar

[Haskell] Haskell dev roles with Strats at Standard Chartered

2016-01-18 Thread Don Stewart
Hi folks, I'm hiring 3 more devs to write Haskell for Standard Chartered in London and Singapore. Details of the roles below, but broadly in FX algo pricing and pricing automation. Ability to write "tight" total Haskell that can run 24/7 and do the right thing is needed. https://donsbot.wordpres

[Haskell] Senior Haskell developer roles at Standard Chartered, Singapore

2015-09-10 Thread Don Stewart
The Strats team at SCB has two more open roles for Haskell developers in Singapore. These are exciting "director level" development roles in a large team. Location is Singapore. Details here: https://donsbot.wordpress.com/2015/09/10/senior-haskell-developer-roles-at-standard-chartered-singapore/

[Haskell] Haskell dev role in Strats at Standard Chartered London

2015-06-15 Thread Don Stewart
I'm hiring another Haskell dev to join the Strats team in London. Details here: https://donsbot.wordpress.com/2015/06/15/haskell-dev-role-in-strats-at-standard-chartered-london-2/ ___ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-

[Haskell] Haskell developer role with Strats at Standard Chartered London

2015-06-10 Thread Don Stewart
Hi all, I'm hiring (another) Haskell dev to join our team in London. Details here: https://donsbot.wordpress.com/2015/06/10/haskell-dev-role-in-strats-at-standard-chartered-london/ ___ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi

[Haskell] Haskell dev role in Strats at Standard Chartered (Singapore)

2015-06-03 Thread Don Stewart
I have an open position for a Haskell developer to join Standard Chartered's Strats team in Singapore. More details at: https://donsbot.wordpress.com/2015/06/03/haskell-dev-role-in-strats-at-standard-chartered-singapore/ -- Don ___ Haskell mailing lis

[Haskell] Haskell development role at Standard Chartered in London

2015-03-16 Thread Don Stewart
The Strats team at Standard Chartered has an open position for a typed functional programming developer to join the team in London. This is a “front office” finance role – meaning you will work on the trading floor, directly with traders, building software to automate their work and improve their

[Haskell] Contracting Haskell dev role at Standard Chartered

2015-01-28 Thread Don Stewart
The Strats team at Standard Chartered is hiring a developer for a 1 year contracting role in London. The role is to develop and extend our parsing and validation library for FpML, using the FpML Haskell library to parse and build financial product data into our internal Haskell data types. You wil

[Haskell] Restored: online archives of haskell@ 1990-2000

2013-03-16 Thread Don Stewart
Using Simon PJ's archive, I've restored the online archives of the Haskell Mailing list from 1990-2000. http://code.haskell.org/~dons/haskell-1990-2000/ Hopefully in a more permanent location. Some goodies: * Wadler's Law on language design : http://code.haskell.org/~dons/haskell-1990-2000

Re: [Haskell] Spam on the Haskell wiki

2012-07-14 Thread Don Stewart
More admins on the wiki is good, esp. those with experience to implement anti-spam measures. Ashley is around , but as usual, we need more help. On Saturday, July 14, 2012, Gwern Branwen wrote: > I recently moved, and when I returned to the Internet a few days > later, I was greeted with several

Re: [Haskell] Haskell Platform Release

2012-05-13 Thread Don Stewart
We're converging on the date - discussion and planning on the Haskell-platform list. Cheers, Don On Sunday, May 13, 2012, Dominic Steinitz wrote: > Hi, > > The release timetable http://trac.haskell.org/**haskell-platform/wiki/** > ReleaseTimetable

[Haskell] Announce: The Haskell Platform 2011.4

2011-12-17 Thread Don Stewart
We're pleased to announce the release of the Haskell Platform: a single, standard Haskell distribution for everyone. Download the Haskell Platform 2011.4.0.0: http://haskell.org/platform/ The specification, along with installers (including Windows, Apple and Unix installers for a full Haskel

[Haskell] Proposal to incorporate Haskell.org

2011-05-10 Thread Don Stewart
a non-profit, allowing us to more directly accept (US tax-deductible) donations, and to invest in assets that benefit the Haskell open source community. We welcome your feedback on the proposal attached below. -- Don Stewart (on behalf of the Haskell.org comm

Re: [Haskell] select(2) or poll(2)-like function?

2011-04-18 Thread Don Stewart
Redirecting to haskell-cafe@, where this kind of long discussion belongs. On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 9:07 AM, Colin Adams wrote: > > > On 18 April 2011 16:54, Ertugrul Soeylemez wrote: >> >> > >> > Well, *someone* has to worry about robustness and scalability. Users >> > notice when their two minut

Re: [Haskell] select(2) or poll(2)-like function?

2011-04-17 Thread Don Stewart
`forkIO` is based on epoll. So threadWaitFD and friends are using epoll. On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Matthias Kilian wrote: > Hi, > > is there something like select(2) or poll(2) available in the > standard (HP) libraries? I hoogled around a little bit but didn't > find anything. (Something

Re: [Haskell] Haskell Platform 2011.2.0.1 now available

2011-04-15 Thread Don Stewart
> > Enticing! What are these "significant improvements for Mac OS X users"? > >   - Conal > > On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Don Stewart wrote: >> >> We're pleased to announce the 2011.2.0.1 release of the Haskell Platform: >> a single, standar

[Haskell] Haskell Platform 2011.2.0.1 now available

2011-04-15 Thread Don Stewart
We're pleased to announce the 2011.2.0.1 release of the Haskell Platform: a single, standard Haskell distribution for everyone. Download the Haskell Platform 2011.2.0.1: http://haskell.org/platform/ This release adds support for GHC 7.0.3, and significant improvements for Mac OS X users. Th

Re: [Haskell] How to contact OpenGL package maintainer (where is Sven?)

2011-04-06 Thread Don Stewart
Note, there are some issues, as this is a package in the Haskell Platform, to do with upgrading and dependent packages. We should talk first about issues there. On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Jason Dagit wrote: > No response yet from Sven after about a month and no one seems to have heard > from

Re: [Haskell] A opportunity to lern (parsing huge binary file)

2011-03-10 Thread Don Stewart
ppk: > On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 10:36:27AM -0500, Skeptic . wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > I finally have an opportunity to learn Haskell (I'm a day-to-day > > Java programmer, but I'm also at ease with Scheme), parsing a huge > > (i.e. up to 50 go) binary file. The encoding is very stable, but > >

Re: [Haskell] letter?

2010-12-18 Thread Don Stewart
brian: > On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Don Stewart wrote: > > malcolm.wallace: > >> > >> On 17 Dec 2010, at 11:39, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: > >> > >>> Did someone forget to renew www.haskell.org?  Who does this? > >>> > >&g

Re: [Haskell] letter?

2010-12-17 Thread Don Stewart
malcolm.wallace: > > On 17 Dec 2010, at 11:39, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: > >> Did someone forget to renew www.haskell.org? Who does this? >> >> Also plain http://haskell.org/ used to work, but doesn't any more. >> >> I'm sure lots of people have noticed this, but it'd be good if someone >> posted

Re: [Haskell] Please help me to reconstruct the Yarrow website! Re: New haskell.org server

2010-12-13 Thread Don Stewart
Hi Paul, The move is complete. There are no haskell.org services running there now. You could shut down the machine in December if you wish. -- Don paul.hudak: > Dear All: > > My research group is paying $200/month to maintain the old haskell.org > at Yale, and we cannot continue doing this ind

Re: [Haskell] reference to DoCon

2010-12-13 Thread Don Stewart
mechvel: > Dear administration of www.haskell.org, > > (I am sorry for not finding a more appropriate list for this letter) > > In old days, my program system DoCon > > (computer algebra written in Haskell) had its copy on > www.haskell.org/doc

[Haskell] Announcement: the Haskell.org committee has formed

2010-11-15 Thread Don Stewart
committee are: • Don Stewart [chair] • Edward Z. Yang • Ganesh Sittampalam • Ian Lynagh • Johan Tibell • Malcolm Wallace • Vo Minh Thu Members are expected to serve a 3 year term, and terms are staggered so that 2 or 3 members step down each year. = What we’re working on = Over the past

[Haskell] ANNOUNCE: Haskell Platform 2010.2.0.0

2010-07-22 Thread Don Stewart
We're pleased to announce the fifth release of the Haskell Platform: a single, standard Haskell distribution for everyone. Download the Haskell Platform 2010.2.0.0: http://hackage.haskell.org.nyud.net/platform/ (Caching server). The specification, along with installers (including Windows, A

[Haskell] IFL 2010: 3rd CFP and 1st Call for Participation

2010-07-14 Thread Don Stewart
Madrid, Spain Sven-Bodo ScholzUniversity of Hertfordshire, UK Tom Schrijvers Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium Don Stewart Galois, USA Wouter SwierstraVector Fabrics, Netherlands Don SymeMicrosoft, UK Peter Thiemann University of

Re: [Haskell] Re: Please check your dependencies on fgl

2010-06-08 Thread Don Stewart
Hey Robby, Yeah, two documents: The "PVP" http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Package_versioning_policy The Package Addition Policy for the Haskell Platform http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/wiki/AddingPackages robby: > Hi all. Just thought I'd poke my head in here

Re: [Haskell] Re: Please check your dependencies on fgl

2010-06-08 Thread Don Stewart
ivan.miljenovic: > Christian Maeder writes: > > > Ivan Lazar Miljenovic schrieb: > >>> Although parsec-3 can be used as an replacement for parsec-2 it would > >>> have been better, they had different names (as argued elsewhere for the > >>> haskell platform). > >> > >> I'm sorry, I don't recall

[Haskell] Re: [Haskell-cafe] Please check your dependencies on fgl

2010-06-07 Thread Don Stewart
ivan.miljenovic: > Thomas Bereknyei are currently re-writing fgl (just about completely > from scratch) and we plan to make an initial release to get feedback > on the API in the next few weeks. > > However, I'm sending this email out now to warn people that I highly > doubt any code that was writ

Re: [Haskell] Gtk2Hs version 0.11.0 released

2010-05-27 Thread Don Stewart
bulat.ziganshin: > Hello Axel, > > Thursday, May 27, 2010, 10:13:45 PM, you wrote: > > > http://code.haskell.org/gtk2hs/INSTALL > > thank you. and what if i deploy my gtk2hs application via hackage? > is it enough for user to run "cabal install myapp" to install my app > and all runtime gtk/gtk2

Re: [Haskell] Gtk2Hs version 0.11.0 released

2010-05-27 Thread Don Stewart
bulat.ziganshin: > Hello Axel, > > Tuesday, May 25, 2010, 4:02:21 PM, you wrote: > > > the Gtk2Hs team is very happy to announce the release of version > > 0.11.0, the first release that comes in Cabal packages! > > > can be built with GHC 6.10 and 6.12 and Cabal 1.6 and 1.8. However, > > does

Re: [Haskell] Gtk2Hs version 0.11.0 released

2010-05-25 Thread Don Stewart
Axel.Simon: > Dear all, > > the Gtk2Hs team is very happy to announce the release of version 0.11.0, > the first release that comes in Cabal packages! > Well done! This is an excellent piece of work that will make a lot of things easier for Haskell programmers! ___

[Haskell] Re: Announce: Haskell Platform 2010.1.0.0 (beta) release

2010-03-31 Thread Don Stewart
DekuDekuplex: > Sorry for the late response, but just out of curiosity, are there any > plans to provide a binary installer for either the Haskell Platform or > GHC 6.12.1 for Mac OS X Leopard for the PowerPC CPU (as opposed to for > the Intel x86 CPU)? I just checked the download-related Web site

[Haskell] Announce: Haskell Platform 2010.1.0.0 (beta) release

2010-03-22 Thread Don Stewart
Live from (post-) Zurihac, I'm pleased to announce the 2010.1.0.0 (beta branch) release of the Haskell Platform, supporting GHC 6.12. http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/ The Haskell Platform is a comprehensive, robust development environment for programming in Haskell. For new users the plat

[Haskell] Haskell Web News: Looking back on 2009

2009-12-21 Thread Don Stewart
The Haskell Web News is a monthly summary of the hottest news about the Haskell programming language, as found in our online communities. If you want to catch up with what’s been happening in Haskell, this might be the journal for you. In this edition, we look back on the major events of 2009.

[Haskell] Re: [Haskell-cafe] The Haskell Web News: December 2009 Edition

2009-12-07 Thread Don Stewart
Deniz: > I think the correct URL should be: Oops, well spotted. The original link will work now. http://haskellwebnews.wordpress.com/2009/12/05/whats-new-in-haskell-december-2009/ ___ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org

[Haskell] The Haskell Web News: December 2009 Edition

2009-12-07 Thread Don Stewart
The Haskell Web News is a monthly summary of the hottest news about the Haskell programming language, as found in our online communities. If you want to catch up with what’s been happening in Haskell, this might be the journal for you. http://haskellwebnews.wordpress.com/2009/12/05/whats-new-

Re: [Haskell] inline assembly a la gcc

2009-11-24 Thread Don Stewart
ppk: > Is there a way in which I can interface GHC with assembly language ? > Of course I can create a stub C function which using inline assembly, > compile it with GCC, and crankin the FFI of GHC. But is there a more > direct way ? > > I would like to try coding, (or steal from some open source

[Haskell] ANNOUNCE: xmonad 0.9 is now available!

2009-10-25 Thread Don Stewart
This release brought to you by the xmonad dev team: Spencer Janssen Don Stewart Adam VogtBrent Yorgey Daniel WagnerDevin Mullins Daniel Schoepe Braden Shepherdson Nicolas PouillardRoman Cheplyaka Gwern Br

Re: [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: qtHaskell-1.1.3

2009-10-21 Thread Don Stewart
Wonderful news. Thank you. -- Don dth.tss: > A new release of qtHaskell (version 1.1.3) is available at > > http://qthaskell.berlios.de > > See the documentation provided on-line and with the downloads -- in > particular the "qtHaskell primer" -- for details of the new > features. > > David Har

[Haskell] Galois is Hiring

2009-08-11 Thread Don Stewart
Galois is continuing to hire. We will also be at ICFP and related events, so come and see Lee Pike or me. We have multiple positions for talented functional programmers (with both junior and senior positions). A strong functional programming ability is an advantage (you will be programming in

Re: [Haskell] memory management

2009-08-02 Thread Don Stewart
nricci01: > Hello, > > I'm interested in research relating to memory management in > Haskell. I'm at the point where I don't know enough to have very > specific questions, but I'm especially interested in garbage collection > in Haskell, and any available statistics (such as, how long do

[Haskell] ANNOUNCE: The Haskell Platform 2009.2.0.2

2009-07-31 Thread Don Stewart
We're pleased to announce the third release of the Haskell Platform: a single, standard Haskell distribution for everyone. The specification, along with installers (including Windows and Unix installers for a full Haskell environment) are available. Download the Haskell Platform 2009.2.0.2:

[Haskell] ANNOUNCE: Galois is hiring functional programmers

2009-06-11 Thread Don Stewart
Galois is hiring. Bringing together mathematicians, researchers and technologists, Galois, based in Portland, Oregon, was founded in 1999 with the mission to apply functional languages and formal methods to solve real world problems. Today, over 30 members strong, we’re living the vision, designi

[Haskell] ANNOUNCE: The Haskell Platform 2009.2.0.1

2009-06-02 Thread Don Stewart
We're pleased to announce the second release of the Haskell Platform: a single, standard Haskell distribution for everyone. The specification, along with installers (including Windows and Unix installers for a full Haskell environment) are available. Download the Haskell Platform 2009.2.0.1:

Re: [Haskell] The speed, size and dependability of programming languages

2009-06-01 Thread Don Stewart
gwern0: > On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Lyle Kopnicky wrote: > > Why are Prolog and Mercury among the least expressive? > > > > Well, I don't know about SML/NJ, since I don't see anything obviously > wrong at > http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=smlnj&lang2=ghc&b

Re: [Haskell] The speed, size and dependability of programming languages

2009-06-01 Thread Don Stewart
lists: > I think it's a combination of 1) the expressiveness measure is too simplistic, > measuring number of lines alone, or counting comments It isn't measuring lines of code, it is measuring the Gzip compression Also, there's a few bogons in the data (it was graphed against 2005-6 results, and

[Haskell] Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: ANNOUNCE: The Haskell Platform

2009-05-07 Thread Don Stewart
kyagrd: > Thanks for this great effort! > > Are we going to have a meta-package on hackage as well? > (which makes it able to build it through cabal-install) Yes, this ticket tracks that stuff: http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/ticket/15 ___

[Haskell] Re: [Haskell-cafe] Is Haskell a Good Choice for Web Applications? (ANN: Vocabulink)

2009-05-06 Thread Don Stewart
dagit: > In particular, we need expert Haskell programmers, such as Don, to > write more about how they avoid space leaks in long running apps. > Again, profiling is nice, but that's more of a tuning effort. I talk a bit about that in my LondonHUG talk: http://www.galois.com/blog/2009/04/27

[Haskell] Re: [Haskell-cafe] Is Haskell a Good Choice for Web Applications? (ANN: Vocabulink)

2009-05-06 Thread Don Stewart
fft1976: > I've heard it's hard to contain a long-running Haskell application in > a finite amount of memory, but this is probably not a problem if your Hmm. Gossip driven development? > web site sleeps 0.001% of the time (like XMonad), or you can restart > it every once in a while without anyone

[Haskell] ANNOUNCE: The Haskell Platform

2009-05-05 Thread Don Stewart
We're pleased to announce the first release of the Haskell Platform: a single, standard Haskell distribution for every system. Download the Haskell Platform 2009.2.0 installers and specification: http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/ The Haskell Platform is a blessed library and tool suite f

Re: [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: Haskell File Manager

2009-04-26 Thread Don Stewart
Well done! Any screenshots? michael.dever2: > Hi, > > The first release of Haskell File Manager has been uploaded to http:// > code.haskell.org/haskellfm > > This is a program for viewing/managing the files on your computer. It has all > the common functionality you would expect from your curre

Re: [Haskell] Re: Hi-res/vector version of logo?

2009-04-10 Thread Don Stewart
brian.sniffen: > > Sure, I'm happy to convert the PSDs (available in the src/ directory, > > here [1]) into SVG, but I will have to do so through tracing them in > > InkScape unless somebody has another solution. > > Many of those are on one basic template. I have no expertise to > advice on the

Re: [Haskell] Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: cmonad 0.1.1

2009-03-29 Thread Don Stewart
Nested constructed product returns? Or constructed sums? lennart: > Well, yes and no. GHC actually does a decent job when given very > imperative code with references and mutable arrays. > Now the type I use to wrap the references to get type safe l-values > and r-values makes it tricker, and ghc

Re: [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: jhc 0.6.0 Haskell Compiler

2009-03-24 Thread Don Stewart
peter.vers: > > On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Don Stewart wrote: > > ghc-pkg hide transformers-0.1.1.0 > > But that is an global change no? Can this be configured in the cabal file? > > -hide-package in a Makefile. Cabal handles this automatically for you, by hidi

[Haskell] Hackage download and popularity statistics

2009-03-23 Thread Don Stewart
For the first time, we've got download and popularity statistics from Hackage: http://www.galois.com/blog/2009/03/23/one-million-haskell-downloads/ Find out if your package made the top 100, and when we reach our 1 millionth hackage download! -- Don _

Re: [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: jhc 0.6.0 Haskell Compiler

2009-03-21 Thread Don Stewart
john: > Hi, I am pleased to announce jhc 0.6.0, It has been a long time since an > official release, so there have been a lot of changes. Jhc is an > optimizing haskell compiler that focuses on creating fast and portable > code. Jhc is still mainly of interest to jhc hackers and developers than > t

Re: [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: jhc 0.6.0 Haskell Compiler

2009-03-21 Thread Don Stewart
sylvain.nahas: > Hi, > > This compiler is very promising, for the least. > > Here is a small dummy Haskell program. > countdown :: Int -> IO () > countdown 0 = putStrLn "finished" > countdown x = do > putStrLn (show x) > countdown (x-1) > main = countdown 1000 >

Re: [Haskell] Announce: iteratee-0.1.0

2009-03-10 Thread Don Stewart
tanimoto: > On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Johan Tibell wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 8:28 PM, John Lato wrote: > >> I am pleased to announce the hackage release of iteratee-0.1.0.  This > >> library implements enumerators and iteratees as proposed by Oleg > >> Kiselyov (http://okmij.org/f

Re: [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: X Haskell Bindings 0.2

2009-02-21 Thread Don Stewart
aslatter: > I'd like to announce the 0.2.* series release of the X Haskell > Bindings. This release, like the prior 0.1.* series focuses on making > the API prettier. This does mean that there's a good chance this is a > breaking release. Also, 0.2.* is based on the just-released version > 1.4 o

[Haskell] Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN : Crypto 4.2.0 & Related News

2009-02-16 Thread Don Stewart
wchogg: > Hello Haskellers, > > I'm pleased to announce version 4.2.0 of Crypto has been uploaded to > Hackage & that I am taking over maintenance of the library from > Dominic Steinitz. As of this release it should be cabal install'able > on GHC 6.10.1. I'm also pleased to announce that the dar

Re: [Haskell] Google Summer of Code 2009

2009-02-10 Thread Don Stewart
Malcolm.Wallace: > Gentle Haskellers, > > The Google Summer of Code will be running again this year. Once again, > haskell.org has the opportunity to bid to become a mentoring > organisation. (Although, as always, there is no guarantee of > acceptance.) > > If you have ideas for student project

[Haskell] Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: X Haskell Bindings 0.1

2009-02-08 Thread Don Stewart
aslatter: > I'd like to announce a version bump for the X Haskell Bindings (XHB) > library, to 0.1.* from 0.0.*. > > The goal of XHB is to provide a Haskell implementation of the X11 wire > protocol, similar in spirit to the X protocol C-language Binding > (XCB). > > On Hackage: http://hackage.ha

[Haskell] Hackage about to reach 1000 releases

2009-01-17 Thread Don Stewart
Hackage is about to reach the 1000 release mark, 2 years after it went live. That's right: in 2 years we've gone from having only a handful of released projects, to one thousand! Well done everyone! I did some quick visualisation of the rate of new releses, diversity of packages, and community g

[Haskell] Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Coadjute 0.0.1, generic build tool

2009-01-17 Thread Don Stewart
matti.niemenmaa+news: > Announcing the release of Coadjute, version 0.0.1! > > Web site: http://iki.fi/matti.niemenmaa/coadjute/ > Hackage: http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/Coadjute > Here's an Arch Linux package for it, http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=232

[Haskell] Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: HLint 1.2

2009-01-11 Thread Don Stewart
ndmitchell: > Hi, > > I am pleased to announce HLint version 1.2. HLint is a lint-like tool > for Haskell that detects and suggests improvements for your code. > HLint is compatible with most GHC extensions, and supports a wide > variety of suggestions, and can be extended with additional user > s

[Haskell] Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Hypothetical Haskell job in New York

2009-01-08 Thread Don Stewart
manlio_perillo: > Tony Hannan ha scritto: > >Let me give you more information about this hypothetical job posting. > >Our company is a startup CDN > >(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_Delivery_Network) about 3 years > >old and doing well. You would hythothetically be one of 7 programmer who

[Haskell] #haskell IRC channel reaches 600 users

2009-01-02 Thread Don Stewart
A small announcement :) 7 years after its inception, under the guiding hand of Shae Erisson (aka shapr), the #haskell IRC channel[1] on freenode has reached 600 concurrent users! It's now in the top 3 language channels by size. To chart the growth, we can note that the channel was founded in lat

[Haskell] ANNOUNCE: Cryptol now freely available

2008-12-24 Thread Don Stewart
Galois is pleased to announce that Cryptol, the language of cryptography, is now available to the public! Cryptol is a domain specific language for the design, implementation and verification of cryptographic algorithms, developed over the past decade by Galois for the United States National Secur

Re: [Haskell] Spam on HaskellWiki

2008-12-13 Thread Don Stewart
ashley: > This is beginning to annoy people. Actually, someone registered several > thousand accounts (of the form XX), though almost all of them > have not been used. The others have been used to add spam. > > I can block user accounts and IP addresses, and I can grant this > privilege

[Haskell] Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Haskell Communities and Activities Report (15th ed., November 2008)

2008-11-28 Thread Don Stewart
Good work! It is always interesting to see the secret Haskell projects that only get announced via the HCAR. Things not on haskell@ or on hackage. For example, this under-the-radar project: http://www.haskell.org/communities/11-2008/html/report.html#sect7.7 7.7 IVU Traffic Technologies

Re: [Haskell] ANN: "Real World Haskell", now shipping

2008-11-26 Thread Don Stewart
ork, and to all the members of the community >which provided comments/suggestions to improve the book. >__ >Donnie Jones > >On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 12:15 AM, Bryan O'Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Good evening - > > John Goer

Re: [Haskell] GHC 6.10 and OpenGL

2008-11-24 Thread Don Stewart
simonpj: > > | It's sad to see the OpenGL binding being dropped from GHC binary > | installers starting from 6.10. Though this issue has been brought up > | and discussed before, I'm sure a lot of people who based their work on > | OpenGL would share the same sympathy. > > The plan (which we have

Re: [Haskell] GHC 6.10 and OpenGL

2008-11-22 Thread Don Stewart
ninegua: > Hi everyone, > > It's sad to see the OpenGL binding being dropped from GHC binary > installers starting from 6.10. Though this issue has been brought up > and discussed before, I'm sure a lot of people who based their work on > OpenGL would share the same sympathy. $ cabal install

[Haskell] Haskell Reddit

2008-11-19 Thread Don Stewart
I'm not sure if the cafe@ knows this, but there's a bit of a Haskell community (1200+ subscribers) built up around the Haskell subreddit on reddit.com, http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/ A good source for news other than what appears on Planet Haskell. -- Don P.S. Feel free to submit things y

Re: [Haskell] XOSD x Haskell

2008-11-13 Thread Don Stewart
lanek: > Hi, > > I am looking for XOSD (X On Screen Display) library bindings for Haskell, of > the kind of X::Osd [Perl]. > > I haven't been able to find anything on XOSD _and_ Haskell around, who knows > better? > I wrote a reall quick binding for you, http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/

Re: [Haskell] XOSD x Haskell

2008-11-12 Thread Don Stewart
lanek: > Hi, > > I am looking for XOSD (X On Screen Display) library bindings for Haskell, of > the kind of X::Osd [Perl]. > > I haven't been able to find anything on XOSD _and_ Haskell around, who knows > better? I'm not aware of any binding to xosd for Haskell. You could certainly write one (t

Re: [Haskell] Announce: Reactive library (FRP) and mailing list

2008-11-09 Thread Don Stewart
conal: >Reactive [1] is a library for functional reactive programming (FRP), >similar to the original Fran [2] but with a more modern interface (using >standard type classes) and a hybrid push/pull implementation. It is >designed to be used in a variety of contexts, such as interac

Re: [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: htags-1.0

2008-11-03 Thread Don Stewart
nicolas.pouillard: > Excerpts from David Sankel's message of Mon Nov 03 19:25:23 +0100 2008: > > http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/htags > > > > htags is a tag file generator to enable extra functionality in editors > > like vim. It expands upon hasktags by using a full Ha

Re: [Haskell] Announce: Chart-0.9

2008-10-29 Thread Don Stewart
twd2: > Chart-0.9 is now available via hackage and a darcs repository. > > This is a library for drawing 2D charts. It relies upon the haskell > cairo binding that is part of gtk2hs, and hence supports several > backend output formats (png, pdf, ps, etc). > > Further information is available here

Re: [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: colour 0.0.0

2008-10-23 Thread Don Stewart
roconnor: > http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/colour-0.0.0 > > I hope for this library to become the standard colour library for Haskell. > Most software does not properly blend colours because they fail to > gamma-correct the colours before blending. Hopefully by using

[Haskell] Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Salsa: A .NET Bridge for Haskell

2008-10-10 Thread Don Stewart
This could be a game changer. Great work Andrew!! -- Don andrew.appleyard: > I'd like to announce the first release of Salsa, an experimental Haskell > library that allows Haskell programs to access .NET libraries. > > Here's a taste: > > > type Hello.hs > import Foreign.Salsa > import B

Re: [Haskell] ANN: Haskell-Embedded System Design: ForSyDe 3.0 and Tutorial

2008-10-01 Thread Don Stewart
alfonso.acosta: > Hi everyone, > > I am glad to announce the 3.0 release of ForSyDe's implementation, now > available from HackageDB. > Awesome, native packages now available, http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=20422 -- Don ___ Haskell mail

Re: [Haskell] Symposium videos

2008-09-27 Thread Don Stewart
Now on haskell.org, http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Video_presentations/Haskell_Symposium_2008 Great work Malcolm!! Malcolm.Wallace: > Guerilla videos of the Haskell Symposium 2008 presentations. Enjoy. ___ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org

[Haskell] Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: graphviz-2008.9.20

2008-09-20 Thread Don Stewart
ivan.miljenovic: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sat, 20 Sep 2008 23:38:16 -0700 > Don Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > And by now you know where which distro has it: > > > > http://aur.archlinux.or

[Haskell] Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: graphviz-2008.9.20

2008-09-20 Thread Don Stewart
ivan.miljenovic: > The latest version of Matthew Sackman's Haskell bindings to Graphviz > [1] are now available on Hackage [2]. The reason there's a new > release only two weeks after the previous one is that I've made some > extensions to it (hence why I'm writing the announcement) that Matthew >

[Haskell] Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Extensible and Modular Generics for the Masses (EMGM) 0.1

2008-09-19 Thread Don Stewart
leather: >Extensible and Modular Generics for the Masses >== > >Extensible and Modular Generics for the Masses (EMGM) is a library for >generic programming in Haskell using type classes. > >This is the initial release of a maintained

Re: [Haskell] ANN: witness 0.1, open-witness 0.1, "Witnesses and Open Witnesses"

2008-08-18 Thread Don Stewart
ashley: > witness 0.1 > A witness is a value that witnesses some sort of constraint on some list > of type variables. This library provides support for simple witnesses, > that constrain a type variable to a single type, and equality witnesses, > that constrain two type variables to be the same

[Haskell] Fwd: Haskell job opportunity: Platform Architect at Peerium, Inc.

2008-08-14 Thread Don Stewart
Hey all, Below is a job opportunity for a Haskell programmer at Peerium, Inc. I was asked for forward to the community. Enjoy! -- Don Subject: Haskell Job Opportunity Platform Architect at Peerium, Inc. Please mail resum

Re: [Haskell] FW: shootout on quad-core

2008-08-13 Thread Don Stewart
Yes, it would be interesting to see some of the benchmarks from the parallel nofib used, http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~dsg/gph/nofib/ simonpj: > Friends: an opportunity spotted by Ulf. > > Simon > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ulf

Re: [Haskell] ANN: SmallCheck 0.3

2008-05-06 Thread Don Stewart
colin: > SmallCheck 0.3: another lightweight testing library in Haskell > -- > > A new version of SmallCheck can be obtained from: > > http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/smallcheck0.3.tar Colin, is there any chance smallcheck could be cabal

Re: [Haskell] Matrix multiplication

2008-05-03 Thread Don Stewart
Tillmann.Vogt: > Hi, > > Thanks for all your nice replies. I did this matrix-multiplication > experiment for a seminar on multithreading where I have to give a talk > on Unified Parallel C. At first I thought I should not mention haskell > as an alternative because of the speed. But now I migh

Re: [Haskell] Matrix multiplication

2008-04-29 Thread Don Stewart
The other thing here is that he's using unboxed, nested arrays in C, while using naive lists in Haskell. To actually compare them, you'd need to use nested STUArrays. Hopefully we'll have a library for these soon (as a result of the ndp lib). Otherwise, use on one of the matrix libraries (hmatrix

[Haskell] Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Galois web libraries for Haskell released

2008-04-22 Thread Don Stewart
jgoerzen: > On Tue April 22 2008 12:20:34 pm Don Stewart wrote: > > > Yes, we needed full, low-level access to sqlite for some unusual use > > cases. For high level stuff, HDBC and Takusen are nicer. > > Can you elaborate on these use cases? I would like to either ad

[Haskell] Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Galois web libraries for Haskell released

2008-04-22 Thread Don Stewart
jgoerzen: > On Mon April 21 2008 1:11:19 pm Don Stewart wrote: > > Galois, Inc. is pleased to announce the open source release of a suite of > > web programming libraries for Haskell! > > Lots of cool stuff here! A few questions: > > > * xml > >

[Haskell] ANNOUNCE: Galois web libraries for Haskell released

2008-04-21 Thread Don Stewart
the domain of web programming. This release brought to you by: Iavor Diatchki Trevor Elliott Sigbjorn Finne Andy Gill Eric Mertens Isaac Potoczny-Jones Don Stewart Aaron Tomb ___ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http:

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