[Haskell] ANN: random-access-list-0.1

2008-06-11 Thread Stephan Friedrichs
Hello, I've implemented Chris Okasaki's random-access list[1] which provides typical list operations (cons, head, tail) in O(1) and yet offers indexed random-access in O(log n). It's uploaded on hackage[2]. It's still an early version which I'll extend, but especially at this eary stage I'd

Re: [Haskell] Why functional programming matters

2008-01-23 Thread Stephan Friedrichs
Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: [...] 2. War stories from real life. eg "In company X in 2004 they rewrote their application in Haskell/Caml with result Y". Again, for my purpose I can't tell very long stories; but your message can give a bit more detail than one might actually give in a presenta

[Haskell] Question concerning the "Data Parallel Haskell: a status report" paper

2008-01-05 Thread Stephan Friedrichs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Haskellers, the paper "Data Parallel Haskell: a status report" (Chakravarty, Leshchinskiy, Peyton Jones, Keller and Marlow) is an important source of my seminar handout about skeletons and parallelisation. It contains code samples concerning the Ar