I have been writing CGI scripts in Haskell for a bit and am starting to
get the hang of it.
1. Generating GIFs
I need to creaet a CGI script that returns a GIF. The docs are somewhat
unclear about how to do this.
All the IO operators seem to be about Chars and claim to be unicode.
If they ar
Alex Jacobson writes:
> 1. Generating GIFs
> I need to create a CGI script that returns a GIF. The docs are somewhat
> unclear about how to do this.
>
> All the IO operators seem to be about Chars and claim to be unicode.
> If they are unicode, does that mean they read 2 bytes at a time of the
> All the IO operators seem to be about Chars and claim to be unicode.
> If they are unicode, does that mean they read 2 bytes at a time of the
> input stream?
Unicode support is a figment of the Haskell report's imagination.
Hugs and GHC don't support unicode - nor is there any great rush to d
Alastair Reid wrote:
> > 3. CGI startup and HUGS
> > Hugs scripts seem to take a very long time to start up.
> > Testing with this:
> > > main = putStr "content-type: text/html\n\nhello world\n"
> > Hugs scripts have a noticeable response delay.
> > The equivalent Perl, C, and GHC executables all
This is getting a bit confusing.
* the content of the Haskell report itself is at least a
bit hallucinatory (in addition to being somewhat difficult to understand).
* It seems like each Haskell distribution has its own peculiarities and libraries
e.g. greencard, variable tuples, read/write bina
> Alex Jacobson writes:
[...]
>
> To the newcomer who is not part of the FP academic community, this all
> makes life sort of difficult. These differences seem larger than the
> differences among C compilers and are MUCH larger than the differences
> among Java compilers. I have been trying
> To the newcomer who is not part of the FP academic community, this all
> makes life sort of difficult. These differences seem larger than the
> differences among C compilers and are MUCH larger than the differences
> among Java compilers. I have been trying to learn Haskell and have been
>
Fermin Reig wrote:
> However, as Alex Jacobson points out, life is not very easy for the
> newcomer. We could make it a little easier by providing better access
> to documentation.
For documentation have a look at
http://www-i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Forschung/FP/Haskell/
and especially the
Thank you. This documentation helps a lot.
It doesn't really answer the politics question per se, but it does provide
a lot of useful pointers.
I strongly the maintainers of Haskell.org ([EMAIL PROTECTED]?) to
put a link to this material on their pages (at least until Haskell.org is
no longer
