Re: [Haskell] Newbie quick questions

2005-10-05 Thread Sebastian Sylvan
On 10/4/05, Mike Crowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, all, especially Cale for the detail. This may be unfair to ask, but is anybody willing to give an example? There are great examples for writing factorials. However, that's not really useful. I'm looking for a real-world example of

Re: [Haskell] Newbie quick questions

2005-10-05 Thread Sebastian Sylvan
On 10/5/05, Sebastian Sylvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/4/05, Mike Crowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, all, especially Cale for the detail. This may be unfair to ask, but is anybody willing to give an example? There are great examples for writing factorials. However, that's not

Re: [Haskell] Newbie quick questions

2005-10-05 Thread Collin Winter
On 10/4/05, Mike Crowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This may be unfair to ask, but is anybody willing to give an example? There are great examples for writing factorials. However, that's not really useful. I'm looking for a real-world example of using the language. You might be interested in

Re: [Haskell] Newbie quick questions

2005-10-04 Thread Jon Fairbairn
On 2005-10-04 at 00:01EDT Mike Crowe wrote: Hi folks, I ran across Haskell at the Great Win32 Computer Language Shootout. A friend approached me with a potential large application to develop. The idea of a language which can reduce time to design and make better code is very

Re: [Haskell] Newbie quick questions

2005-10-04 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 11:31 +0100, Jon Fairbairn wrote: On 2005-10-04 at 00:01EDT Mike Crowe wrote: Hi folks, I ran across Haskell at the Great Win32 Computer Language Shootout. A friend approached me with a potential large application to develop. The idea of a language which can

Re: [Haskell] Newbie quick questions

2005-10-04 Thread Cale Gibbard
I wouldn't really consider any of those a particularly quick question, but I'll give them a shot :) On 04/10/05, Mike Crowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, I ran across Haskell at the Great Win32 Computer Language Shootout. A friend approached me with a potential large application to

Re: [Haskell] Newbie quick questions

2005-10-04 Thread Mike Crowe
Thanks, all, especially Cale for the detail. This may be unfair to ask, but is anybody willing to give an example? There are great examples for writing factorials. However, that's not really useful. I'm looking for a real-world example of using the language. Specifically, the first page of

[Haskell] Newbie quick questions

2005-10-03 Thread Mike Crowe
Hi folks, I ran across Haskell at the Great Win32 Computer Language Shootout. A friend approached me with a potential large application to develop. The idea of a language which can reduce time to design and make better code is very intriguing. I was looking at prototyping in Python using