FW: [Haskell-cafe] RE:Cross-over from Haskell.org [Haskell] Re: Newbie: what are the advantages of Haskell?

2007-05-02 Thread Taillefer, Troy (EXP)
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 5:35 PM To: Taillefer, Troy (EXP) Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] RE:Cross-over from Haskell.org [Haskell] Re: Newbie: what are the advantages of Haskell? Taillefer, Troy (EXP) wrote: I really dislike Perl as a programming language

FW: [Haskell-cafe] RE:Cross-over from Haskell.org [Haskell] Re: Newbie: what are the advantages of Haskell?

2007-05-02 Thread Taillefer, Troy (EXP)
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 5:35 PM To: Taillefer, Troy (EXP) Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] RE:Cross-over from Haskell.org [Haskell] Re: Newbie: what are the advantages of Haskell? Taillefer, Troy (EXP) wrote: I really dislike Perl as a programming language

[Haskell-cafe] RE:Cross-over from Haskell.org [Haskell] Re: Newbie: what are the advantages of Haskell?

2007-04-30 Thread Taillefer, Troy (EXP)
Udo, I am cross posted/migrated this to Haskell-cafe per Simons request sorry for the late response I don't check this email on weekends I really dislike Perl as a programming language but I have to strongly disagree about your statements about CPAN and the quality of its contents. I have

RE: [Haskell] Newbie: what are the advantages of Haskell?

2007-04-27 Thread Taillefer, Troy (EXP)
Java sense (i.e. cut out any feature that can't be understood in five minutes by a chimp) Got to love comments like this they are constructive, objective, mature and accurate. Glad we have your expert opinion to give us the gospel. Can I get an amen? How about a Hallelujah ? Troy

RE: [Haskell] Re: Newbie: what are the advantages of Haskell?

2007-04-27 Thread Taillefer, Troy (EXP)
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Al Falloon Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 12:19 PM To: haskell@haskell.org Cc: haskell@haskell.org Subject: [Haskell] Re: Newbie: what are the advantages of Haskell? Taillefer, Troy (EXP) wrote: Java sense

[Haskell] Re: Newbie: what are the advantages of Haskell?

2007-04-27 Thread Taillefer, Troy (EXP)
Java programmer? Cheers, Mike On 4/27/07, Taillefer, Troy (EXP) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Admittedly, this is phrased in an inflammatory manner, however, the original sentiment is actually pointing out an advantage of Java over Haskell. Here is the original .paragraph in context

RE: [Haskell] Newbie: what are the advantages of Haskell?

2007-04-26 Thread Taillefer, Troy (EXP)
Phiroc, Hi Welcome to the mailing list. Problem with partially functional languages in my opinion is if you can do things the way that your most use i.e. imperative programming you will do it Perl, Python, Lisp, Scheme and etc have features that support functional programming but I would wager

RE: [Haskell-cafe] Tutorial on Haskell

2007-04-18 Thread Taillefer, Troy (EXP)
I guess it is time to give my two cents on this topic I am definitely not an expert Haskell programmer I am a mere hobbyist I make my bread coding Java/C++/C. I think the two things I like most about Haskell are 1. Its methods of combination Lazy Eval, Function composition and Higher order

FW: [Haskell-cafe] Tutorial on Haskell

2007-04-18 Thread Taillefer, Troy (EXP)
true (which I am sorry it can't be) who cares. END RANT=== From: Sebastian Sylvan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 1:50 PM To: Taillefer, Troy (EXP) Cc: haskell

RE: [Haskell-cafe] Tutorial on Haskell

2007-04-16 Thread Taillefer, Troy (EXP)
Simon, Hopefully a video of this tutorial would be made available as a learning resource for those of use who can't make it to this Convention. Troy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Simon Peyton-Jones Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 4:34