[Haskell] ANN: New Haskell.org committee members

2013-11-21 Thread Jason Dagit
The Haskell.org committee has selected new members following the October self-nomination period. The new members are: * Adam Foltzer * Nicolas Wu * Andres Loeh Thank you to everyone who submitted a self-nomation. We had many very strong candidates and it was not easy for us to narrow the se

Re: [Haskell] please improve this code - thanks

2013-08-24 Thread Jason Dagit
On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 5:45 AM, Me wrote: > Hi all. > I'm new to haskell. I have a puny piece of code: > > import Data.List.Split > > padL :: Int -> String -> String > padL n s > | length s < n = replicate (n - length s) '0' ++ s > You use `length s` but the computation is not shared betwee

Re: [Haskell] ANN: Haskell bindings for the igraph C library

2012-12-16 Thread Jason Dagit
On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Nils Schweinsberg wrote: > Hi Haskellers, dear igraph community, > > I am pleased to announce the release of our (inofficial) Haskell bindings > to the igraph C library. igraph is a powerfull library for creating and > manipulating directed, undirected and weighte

Re: [Haskell] haskell.org committee: Call for nominations

2012-11-09 Thread Jason Dagit
Just a reminder to nominate yourself if you're interested. If you've been thinking about it but haven't contacted us yet then please just do it and contact us today! Thank, Jason On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Jason Dagit wrote: > Dear Haskellers, > > The second

[Haskell] haskell.org committee: Call for nominations

2012-11-02 Thread Jason Dagit
Dear Haskellers, The second year of the haskell.org committee is drawing to a close and it is therefore time to seek replacements for those members whose term is expiring. This year one member has a term ending, Ganesh Sittampalam. Ganesh has been an excellent contributor and the rest of the comm

Re: [Haskell] [Haskell-cafe] Call for GUI examples - Functional Reactive Programming

2011-07-08 Thread Jason Dagit
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 11:08 PM, Heinrich Apfelmus wrote: > Dear Haskellers, > > Can GUI programming be liberated from the IO monad? Functional Reactive > Programming (FRP) promises as much, and I'm trying to make this dream a > reality with my [reactive-banana][] library. Having released version

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

2011-04-06 Thread Jason Dagit
, other than tickets #57 and #58 that make a case for removing OpenGL and GLUT entirely from the platform. Tickets #57 and #58 seem to be old though. If you have more information or I overlooked something, please let me know :) Thanks, Jason > On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Jason Dagit w

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

2011-04-06 Thread Jason Dagit
rrays * add support for opengl 4.x * look at adding deprecation pragmas for deprecated opengl calls * new hackage releases * anything else that comes up Thanks, Jason On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Jason Dagit wrote: > I sent the message below to Haskell-Cafe about a week ago. I

Re: [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: FreeType 2 Bindings

2011-04-03 Thread Jason Dagit
On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Jason Dagit wrote: > I'm excited to announce the immediate availability of FreeType 2 bindings > on hackage. These bindings are based off the 2.4.4 release of FreeType 2 > and use the BSD licensing option for FreeType 2. This package should be of

[Haskell] ANNOUNCE: FreeType 2 Bindings

2011-04-03 Thread Jason Dagit
I'm excited to announce the immediate availability of FreeType 2 bindings on hackage. These bindings are based off the 2.4.4 release of FreeType 2 and use the BSD licensing option for FreeType 2. This package should be of interest to OpenGL users as it provides a way to get nice looking fonts int

Re: [Haskell] ANN: Yi 0.6.3

2011-03-28 Thread Jason Dagit
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 6:39 PM, Brandon S Allbery KF8NH < allber...@gmail.com> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 3/28/11 21:29 , Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote: > > On 29 March 2011 12:19, Brandon S Allbery KF8NH > wrote: > >>> No, my meaning was that the reasoning of

Re: [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: The Fibon benchmark suite (v0.2.0)

2010-11-09 Thread Jason Dagit
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 5:47 PM, David Peixotto wrote: > > On Nov 9, 2010, at 3:45 PM, Jason Dagit wrote: > > I have a few questions: > * What differentiates fibon from criterion? I see both use the > statistics package. > > > I think the two packages have dif

Re: [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: The Fibon benchmark suite (v0.2.0)

2010-11-09 Thread Jason Dagit
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 1:24 PM, David Peixotto wrote: > I'm pleased to announce the release of the Fibon benchmark tools and suite. > > Fibon is a set of tools for running and analyzing benchmark programs in > Haskell. Most importantly, it includes an optional set of benchmark > programs includin

[Haskell] Re: [Haskell-cafe] Proposal: Form a haskell.org committee

2010-09-05 Thread Jason Dagit
On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Ian Lynagh wrote: > > Dear Haskellers, > > In recent years, haskell.org has started to receive assets, e.g. money > from Google Summer Of Code, donations for Hackathons, and a Sparc > machine for use in GHC development. We have also started spending this > money: on

[Haskell] Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: iteratee-compress 0.1

2010-08-31 Thread Jason Dagit
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 6:51 AM, Maciej Piechotka wrote: > Iteratee-compress provides compressing and decompressing enumerators. > Currently only gzip is provided but at least bzip is planned. > > Additionally more fine-control over stream (i.e. flushing) is planned. > > > Library currently d

[Haskell] Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: enumerator, an alternative iteratee package

2010-08-18 Thread Jason Dagit
Hi John, Thanks for creating a competitor to the iteratee library. I think iteratees are an important abstraction, but there are some things about the iteratee library that I'm not fond of, despite John Lato doing a great job. I think having a bit of healthy competition to explore the design spa