Re: [Haskell-cafe] gmp license == no commercial/closed source haskell software ??

2008-12-03 Thread Alex Sandro Queiroz e Silva
Hallo, Don Stewart wrote: Supporting this is trivial with a dynamically linked / DLL libgmp. With a statically linked one, it is also possible, since the API calls to libgmp are specified. Is it also possible? How? This shouldn't prevent commercial use -- lots of other companies

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Very silly

2008-10-16 Thread Alex Sandro Queiroz e Silva
Hallo, Andrew Coppin wrote: C++ has some interesting ideas. I haven't learned how to use templates yet, but what I do find interesting is that there is no automatic memory management, and yet you can still do fairly dynamic programming. I've never seen any other language that allows this.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Salsa: A .NET Bridge for Haskell

2008-10-13 Thread Alex Sandro Queiroz e Silva
Hallo, Andrew Coppin wrote: In what alternate universe? One with a 3-day time dilation, apparently... [Sorry, couldn't resist. ;-) ] No problem, I didn't get your point anyway. -alex http://www.ventonegro.org/ ___

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Health effects

2008-10-03 Thread Alex Sandro Queiroz e Silva
Hallo, Andrew Coppin wrote: In other news... apparently chocolate is leathaly toxic to dogs. Random. Chicolate is extremely toxic to cats. Cheers, -alex http://www.ventonegro.org/ ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Health effects

2008-09-29 Thread Alex Sandro Queiroz e Silva
Hallo, Andrew Coppin wrote: Anton van Straaten wrote: You're not alone: http://xkcd.com/245/ Heh. Randel appears to have not heard of Haskell. He thinks _Lisp_ is the ultimate language. ;-) Well, at least he's close, let's wait till he finds out about Scheme. :-) Cheers, -alex

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Climbing up the shootout...

2008-09-24 Thread Alex Sandro Queiroz e Silva
Hallo, John Van Enk wrote: I'm going to have to agree with David... even if you ignore the multi-threaded projects, why couldn't the C programs just implement very specific version of the third party library inside their code? Is there anything stopping them? Maybe they don't care

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Lambda and closures in PHP -- could someone please comment?

2008-06-18 Thread Alex Sandro Queiroz e Silva
Hallo, Jules Bean wrote: PR Stanley wrote: With respect, do you not think it'd be wiser for the community [snip] *disgusted* This is exactly the sort of message that haskell-cafe does not normally contain. Let's not start now. This is a civilized mailing list. Either comment on the nice

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Lambda and closures in PHP -- could someone please comment?

2008-06-18 Thread Alex Sandro Queiroz e Silva
Hallo, PR Stanley wrote: Now, if you, Jules, Alex or some other wannabe Hitler have a problem with my freedom of expression then your best solution is to saddle up and get the hell out yourselves. This is the wrong place for setting up your tinpot dictatorship, Doctor! I am grateful for the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] How to program with sqlite?

2008-03-25 Thread Alex Sandro Queiroz e Silva
Hallo, Bjorn Bringert wrote: This is SQLite's fault. In SQLite, all types are aliases for STRING. Whatever type you use in the create and insert, you will get strings back. That's not true. SQLite has integers (64 bits) and reals. But, if you try to read the field as text it will

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Doing some things right

2007-12-28 Thread Alex Sandro Queiroz e Silva
Hallo, Andrew Coppin escreveu: [I actually heard a number of people tell me that learning LISP would change my life forever because LISP has something called macros. I tried to learn it, and disliked it greatly. It's too messy. And what the heck is cdr ment to mean anyway? To me, LISP doesn't

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Doing some things right

2007-12-28 Thread Alex Sandro Queiroz e Silva
Hallo, Andrew Coppin escreveu: Brian Sniffen wrote: On Dec 28, 2007 6:05 AM, Andrew Coppin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [I actually heard a number of people tell me that learning LISP would change my life forever because LISP has something called macros. I tried to learn it, and disliked it

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Storable types

2007-12-20 Thread Alex Sandro Queiroz e Silva
Hallo fellow Brazilian, Clerton Filho escreveu: Hi, I'm newbie in Haskell, and I have some doubts... In this programming language, do we have storable values? Case affirmative, what are the storable types in Haskell, and how can I implement then... What exactly is a storable type?

Re: [Haskell-cafe] New to Haskell: The End

2007-12-18 Thread Alex Sandro Queiroz e Silva
Hallo, Cristian Baboi escreveu: From your list, I agree to add some pattern matching abilities to mine, but that it all. Keep using Haskell and resend your list in six months. -alex ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Brazilian Haskellers ?

2007-11-14 Thread Alex Sandro Queiroz e Silva
Hallo, Rich Neswold escreveu: On Nov 14, 2007 10:59 AM, Ricardo Herrmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi brazilian haskellers, Wow! I knew the Haskell community has been growing... but there's a brazillian of us? Well, we are more than one. :-) Cheers, -alex

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Best Linux for Haskell?

2007-11-06 Thread Alex Sandro Queiroz e Silva
Hallo, Maurí­cio escreveu: Maybe (and only maybe), before choosing a distribution, you should choose a package system, since that's what you are going to use to install software. Look for RPM and APT, and see what you think. With my package system (I don't wanna give you any prejudice, so