Re: [Haskell-cafe] Tutorial: Haskell for the Evil Genius

2012-10-13 Thread Benjamin L. Russell
2010.2.0.0/bin/" runhaskell > import Data.Memotrie (memo) > fib :: Int -> Int > fib = memo fib' > where > fib' :: Int -> Int > fib' 0 = 0 > fib' 1 = 1 > fib' n = fib' (n - 1) + fib' (n - 2) >

[Haskell-cafe] (no subject)

2011-11-15 Thread Benjamin L. Russell
http://elikat.com/blogs/wp-content/plugins/index1.php ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell for children? Any experience?

2011-02-19 Thread Benjamin L. Russell
g the virtual world, and, when bored, form parties or alliances with other avatars to complete quests, craft items, or battle mon^H^H^H bugs to earn experience points, blurring the borders between work/study and play. -- Benjamin L. Russell Thank you so much for pointin

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell for children? Any experience?

2011-02-19 Thread Benjamin L. Russell
's emphasis on multimedia. One of the reasons that I started programming with N80-BASIC in 1983 was the language's support for color graphics and (albeit elementary) sound. -- Benjamin L. Russell Best of luck and keep us up to date on your bl

[Haskell-cafe] Re: TryHaskell in the classroom!

2010-09-03 Thread Benjamin L. Russell
Glad to hear about your positive experience with Try Haskell (see http://tryhaskell.org/)! I have also enjoyed using Try Haskell. It would be wonderful if it could be expanded with more content. Many thanks to the developers for their efforts! -- Benjamin L. Russell Fritz Ruehr writes: >

[Haskell-cafe] Looking for a course using Haskell in the Tokyo area

2010-08-29 Thread Benjamin L. Russell
n Computer Software at the University of Tsukuba using OCaml, but I am not especially fond of the syntax of OCaml after having become familiar with Haskell. -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benjamin L. Russell / DekuDekuplex at Yahoo dot com http://dekudekuplex.wordpress.com/ Translator/Interpreter / Mobile

Fw: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Announce snm-0.0.2: The Simple Nice-Looking Manual Generator

2010-08-02 Thread Benjamin L. Russell
. > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Benjamin L. Russell > wrote: > > Johnny Morrice writes: > > [...] > > > > snm allows you to write clean, web-friendly reports, user guides and > > manuals without having to edit fickle html. > Interesting project!  Unl

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Announce snm-0.0.2: The Simple Nice-Looking Manual Generator

2010-07-29 Thread Benjamin L. Russell
ifferent things ... what one did you mean? Thank you for the many examples in your user guide; they help clarify usage. -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benjamin L. Russell / DekuDekuplex at Yahoo dot com http://dekudekuplex.wordpress.com/ Translator/Interpreter / Mobile: +011 81 80-3603-6725 &qu

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Forum

2010-07-27 Thread Benjamin L. Russell
#x27;ve already got a web forum, then, so I guess there's > nothing to do! :) Same here. Why don't we just use this interface, which already exists? -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benjamin L. Russell / DekuDekuplex at Yahoo dot com http://dekudekuplex.wordpress.com/ Translator/Inte

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Forum

2010-07-27 Thread Benjamin L. Russell
ast and fundamental cultural differences between a mailing list (or newsgroup) readership and a potential Web forum readership. It would seem that in order for a Web forum for Haskell to function smoothly, it would need to support equivalent functionality to that of mailing list applications (or n

[Haskell-cafe] Re: ANNOUNCE: Haskell Platform 2010.2.0.0

2010-07-24 Thread Benjamin L. Russell
PC architecture (as opposed to the Intel one)? -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benjamin L. Russell / DekuDekuplex at Yahoo dot com http://dekudekuplex.wordpress.com/ Translator/Interpreter / Mobile: +011 81 80-3603-6725 "Furuike ya, kawazu tobikomu mizu no oto." -- Matsuo Basho^ __

[Haskell-cafe] Is www.haskell.org down?

2010-06-07 Thread Benjamin L. Russell
Since yesterday, I have been unable to connect to www.haskell.org. Is the site down? -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benjamin L. Russell / DekuDekuplex at Yahoo dot com http://dekudekuplex.wordpress.com/ Translator/Interpreter / Mobile: +011 81 80-3603-6725 "Furuike ya, kawazu tobikomu mi

[Haskell-cafe] Re: haskell.org down?

2010-06-07 Thread Benjamin L. Russell
Ozgur Akgun writes: > http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/www.haskell.org-- Ozgur Akgun Same problem here since two days ago. Apparently, the server just went back up. Anybody know what kept the server down for so long? -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benjamin L. Russell / DekuDekuplex at Ya

[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Re: Work on Video Games in Haskell

2010-05-29 Thread Benjamin L. Russell
a number of other freedoms). Ironically, by prohibiting freedom of expression in the choice of a programming language for the iPhone and requiring that all applications be "originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript as executed by the iPhone OS Webkit engine," Apple has now bec

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Announce: Haskell Platform 2010.1.0.0 (beta) release

2010-03-30 Thread Benjamin L. Russell
.12.1 (see http://www.haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_6_12_1.html), but could find no relevant information. Currently, I'm using GHC 6.8.2, but this is an outdated version. -- Benjamin L. Russell > > Thanks! > > -- Don (for The Platform Infrastructure Team) -- Benjamin L. Russell /

[Haskell-cafe] Re: ANNOUNCE: Mac and Windows installers for Leksah 0.8 prerelease available

2010-03-17 Thread Benjamin L. Russell
does not seem to be supported. -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benjamin L. Russell / DekuDekuplex at Yahoo dot com http://dekudekuplex.wordpress.com/ Translator/Interpreter / Mobile: +011 81 80-3603-6725 "Furuike ya, kawazu tobikomu mizu no oto." -- Matsuo Basho^

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Has anybody translated Douglas Hofstadter's Scientific American articles introducting Scheme to a general audience into Haskell?

2010-03-03 Thread Benjamin L. Russell
Gwern Branwen writes: > On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 1:04 AM, Benjamin L. Russell > wrote: >> There is an interesting, if somewhat dated, suggestion on "Lambda the >> Ultimate" (see http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1748) that "someone >> translate Doug H

[Haskell-cafe] Has anybody translated Douglas Hofstadter's Scientific American articles introducting Scheme to a general audience into Haskell?

2010-03-01 Thread Benjamin L. Russell
ok _Metamagical Themas: Questing For The Essence Of Mind And Pattern_ [1] (see http://www.amazon.com/Metamagical-Themas-Questing-Essence-Pattern/dp/0465045669). Has anybody translated Hofstadter's articles from Scheme into Haskell? -- Benjamin L. Russell [1] Hofstadter, Douglas. _Metamagical Themas

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Has "Try Haskell! An interactive tutorial in your browser" been announced yet?

2010-03-01 Thread Benjamin L. Russell
ke, so I personally have not used Chrome at home so far; I may use it as some point in the future, especially if the layout changes). Apparently, the tutorial behaves slightly differently in different browsers, and has a built-in time limit. You may wish to experiment with different browsers as well, and to

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Has "Try Haskell! An interactive tutorial in your browser" been announced yet?

2010-02-28 Thread Benjamin L. Russell
Andrew Coppin writes: > Benjamin L. Russell wrote: >> There is a link to "Try Haskell! -- an interactive, online Haskell >> interpreter" (see http://tryhaskell.org/) under "February 2010" under "1 >> Headlines" on the "Haskell - HaskellWIki

[Haskell-cafe] Has "Try Haskell! An interactive tutorial in your browser" been announced yet?

2010-02-28 Thread Benjamin L. Russell
do not seem to be any announcements for February 2010 concerning this interactive tutorial on either the Haskell or Haskell-Cafe mailing lists. Has it been announced yet? If not, can I go ahead and announce it on the Haskell mailing list? -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benjamin L. Russell

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Category Theory woes

2010-02-06 Thread Benjamin L. Russell
ategory Land: Like Flatterland, Only About Categories http://dekudekuplex.wordpress.com/2009/01/16/learning-haskell-through-category-theory-and-adventuring-in-category-land-like-flatterland-only-about-categories/ Hope this helps. -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benjamin L. Russell / DekuDekuplex at

[Haskell-cafe] Re: (semi OT) Fwd: Old math reveals new thinking in children's cognitive development

2009-12-15 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
f Metacat could prove to be an interesting, if challenging, project. Does anybody know if such a project would be feasible? -- Benjamin L. Russell [1] "Copycat (software) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia." _Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia._ 18 Apr. 2005. 16 Dec. 2009. <http://en.wikipedi

[Haskell-cafe] Re: universal binary version of Haskell Platform?

2009-12-05 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
aints, I'd be happy to volunteer. My Mac just went out of service because of a hardware problem with the memory, so I'm order new replacement RAM this weekend. As soon as that arrives and I install it, the problem should be resolved. What should I do? -- Benjamin L. Russell ___

[Haskell-cafe] universal binary version of Haskell Platform?

2009-12-02 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
, there does not seem to be a version of the Haskell Platform that runs natively on my current OS. Does anybody know where to find a universal binary version of the Haskell Platform, or at least of GHC 6.10.4? Otherwise, I'm stuck without a native version. -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benjamin L. Ru

[Haskell-cafe] Re: haskell-mode.el mailing list (+ dpatch)

2009-11-25 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
;option. Is there anything I should do there? You don't need to worry about that one. When I set up the gateway to Gmane.org for the Haskell-Beginners mailing list, there had been no need to bother with that option. -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benjamin L. Russell / DekuDekuplex at Yahoo

[Haskell-cafe] Re: haskell-mode.el mailing list (+ dpatch)

2009-11-25 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
>http://trac.haskell.org/haskellmode-emacs/ > >http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskellmode-emacs Excellent topic for a mailing list! I edit most of my Haskell programs in haskell-mode in Emacs. Joined! -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benjamin L. Russell / DekuDekuplex at Yah

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Weekly News: Issue 140 - November 22, 2009

2009-11-23 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
ely to mark a message of an uncensored title as spam. Maybe the mailing lists and newsgroups have no choice but to be left out of any related searches in order to escape the filters? -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benjamin L. Russell / DekuDekuplex at Yahoo dot

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Weekly News: Issue 140 - November 22, 2009

2009-11-23 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
his could become an issue. How should this issue be resolved? -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benjamin L. Russell / DekuDekuplex at Yahoo dot com http://dekudekuplex.wordpress.com/ Translator/Interpreter / Mobile: +011 81 80-3603-6725 "Furuike ya

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Weekly News: Issue 140 - November 22, 2009

2009-11-23 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
, for what kinds of publications should I prioritize one criterion over the other? In general, if a programming language-related term contains what is generally regarded as a profane word as a component, for what kinds of written material should I prioritize accuracy vs. propriety? -- Benjamin L. Russell --

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Weekly News: Issue 137 - October 31, 2009

2009-11-01 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
x haskellhack," since a Haskell version needs to be created. ;-) -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benjamin L. Russell / DekuDekuplex at Yahoo dot com http://dekudekuplex.wordpress.com/ Translator/Interpreter / Mobile: +011 81 80-3603-6725 "Furuike ya, kawazu tobikomu mizu no oto." -- Matsuo Basho^

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Weekly News: Issue 134 - October 10, 2009

2009-10-12 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
on to the main Haskell mailing list). If it winds up getting posted to Haskell-Beginners, I'll gladly read it there, but if it just gets posted to the main Haskell mailing list, I'll read it there, also. -- Benjamin L. Russell On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 14:31:22 +0200, Max Rabkin wrote:

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Weekly News

2009-10-09 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
mailing list where it has not been read. Other than that, hope that you get over your sinus infection, and keep up the good work! Benjamin L. Russell On Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:46:25 -0700 (PDT), Joe Fredette wrote: > >

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Weekly News: Issue 131 - Semptember 25, 2009

2009-09-29 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
entheses (although it was still funny (even though it could have been edited (to make the parentheses match (even though that is not an important issue. -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benjamin L. Russell / DekuDekuplex at Yahoo dot com http://dekudekuplex.wordpress.com/ Translator/Interpreter / Mobi

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Where can I find a non-fee-based version of Hudak's paper, "Conception, evolution, and application of functional programming languages"?

2009-09-17 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
PDF version of the same content (available by clicking on the "CACHED" button at CiteSeerX at http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.83.6505). The image quality appears identical. -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benjamin L. Russell / DekuDekuplex at Yahoo dot com http://de

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Where can I find a non-fee-based version of Hudak's paper, "Conception, evolution, and application of functional programming languages"?

2009-09-17 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
=10.1.1.83.6505&rep=rep1&type=pdf; that is a very useful service. -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benjamin L. Russell / DekuDekuplex at Yahoo dot com http://dekudekuplex.wordpress.com/ Translator/Interpreter / Mobile: +011 81 80-3603-6725 "Furuike ya, kawazu tobikomu mizu no oto." -- Mats

[Haskell-cafe] Where can I find a non-fee-based version of Hudak's paper, "Conception, evolution, and application of functional programming languages"?

2009-09-17 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
ondit/pl-prelim/hudak89functional.pdf , but when I try to download that file, the following error message appears: >The server has encountered a problem because access is restricted. > >Your request was : >http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~jcondit/pl-prelim/hudak89functional.pdf -- Benjamin

[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Looking for a new HWN editor

2009-09-08 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
ask the new editor and hope that he/she is understanding), but just to give a fair opportunity to all Haskell users, if the editor changes again, it may be helpful at least to give everybody an opportunity to read the announcement and apply for the position. Just my two cents -- B

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Any comments about Clojure language?

2009-08-10 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
ook at code, rather than at a tutorial, and when I persisted in asking about a tutorial, they then recommended that I purchase a for-fee book [6]. Haskell, by contrast, has many freely available online tutorials, and even some freely available online books, including RWH [7]. -- Benjamin L. Russell

[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Re: 20 years ago

2009-07-26 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
y exchanging messages naturally >leads to anthropomorphisms Incidentally, just for the record, in response to my forwarding your claim, Alan Kay, the inventor of Smalltalk, just refuted your refutation [1] (see http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/beginners/2009-July/006331.html

[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Re: 20 years ago

2009-07-14 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
simply uses terms from biology, from which concepts in Squeak (and the OO paradigm thereof) derive. The closest counterpart for Haskell that I can think of is the puzzle game "Alligator Eggs!" [2] (see http://worrydream.com/AlligatorEggs/), by Bret Victor, which draws an analogy between various b

[Haskell-cafe] What happened to the installation chapter in the GHC User's Guide?

2009-06-24 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
sponse was that the chapter was outdated. Are there any plans to update this chapter? Every once in a while, I forget whether GHC needs to be uninstalled in order to be updated on Windows, and am forced to consult an earlier version of this chapter. -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benj

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Re[2]: Re: (fwd) Haskell logo fail

2009-06-23 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
, we Haskellites must really be going out to lunch ;-). Speaking of lunch, it's almost 12:00. Now I must be going out to lunch, too. ;-> -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benjamin L. Russell / DekuDekuplex at Yahoo dot com http://dekudekuplex.wordpress.com/ Translator/

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell on the iPhone

2009-06-22 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
ell a >force to be reckoned with in the burgeoning iPhone App marketplace. This sounds like a great idea. Please count my vote in favor of this new mailing list. -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benjamin L. Russell / DekuDekuplex at Yahoo dot com http://dekudekuplex.wordpress.com/ Translator/In

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Creating a new Haskell mailing list

2009-06-22 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
rg Mailing Lists http://haskell.org/mailman/listinfo Mailing lists - HaskellWiki http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Mailing_lists -- Benjamin L. Russell On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:16:14 -0400, Ryan Trinkle wrote: >I'm interested in creating a list for iPhone development. While I also have

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Creating a new Haskell mailing list

2009-06-22 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
skell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell and The Haskell Archives at http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell/), and then move the discussion, after a few rounds, to this mailing list (the Haskell-Cafe mailing list). (Haskell-Beginners was created in this manner, for example.) -- Benjamin L. Russe

[Haskell-cafe] (fwd) Haskell logo fail

2009-06-17 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
gt; > > > >ouch The two logos do look disturbingly similar -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benjamin L. Russell / DekuDekuplex at Yahoo dot com http://dekudekuplex.wordpress.com/ Translator/Interpreter / Mobile: +011 81 80-3603-6725 "Furuike ya, kawaz

[Haskell-cafe] Re: a cool paper (.pdf) on Cabal?

2009-06-10 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
/ Sorry, I forgot that you had specified a .pdf paper in the title. Then perhaps the following paper is what you are really looking for: Haskell: Batteries Included by Duncan Coutts, Isaac Potoczny-Jones, and Don Stewart http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/papers/haskell31-coutts.pdf -- Benjamin L. Russ

[Haskell-cafe] Re: a cool paper (.pdf) on Cabal?

2009-06-10 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
ommon Architecture for Building Applications and Tools by Isaac Jones, Simon Peyton Jones, Simon Marlow, Malcolm Wallace, and Ross Patterson http://www.haskell.org/cabal/proposal/ -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benjamin L. Russell / DekuDekuplex at Yahoo dot com http://dekudekuplex.wordpress.com/ Translato

[Haskell-cafe] Re: We tried this functional, higher-order stuff with LISP and look what happened...

2009-05-28 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
developers, has allowed us to become much more nimble, and >from a research point of view, that’s great. We have lots of >users so we get lots of experience from them. What you want >is to have a lot of users but not too many from a research point >of view -- hence the avoid success at

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Who takes care of Haskell mailing lists?

2009-05-27 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
asis for arguing that a Portuguese mailing list should be created. Alternatively, there is the option of creating a Haskell-related mailing list outside of haskell.org, such as the following: haskell-art Info Page http://lists.lurk.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-art Hope this helps. -- Benjamin

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Beginner SOS

2009-05-27 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
sion of the above-mentioned title available at the following site: eBooks.com - Programming in Haskell eBook http://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=307017 Please keep in mind that, unlike most other books and tutorials on Haskell, neither _Real World Haskell_ nor _Programming in Haske

[Haskell-cafe] How difficult would creating a collaborative multi-user online virtual world application be in Haskell?

2009-05-07 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
nventional blog from within a virtual world. Unfortunately, Smalltalk is an object-oriented language. If possible, I would like to see something similar in a functional programming language such as Haskell. Does anybody know whether duplicating this project in Haskell would be feasible? --

[Haskell-cafe] Re: "O LANGUAGE DESIGNER, REMEMBER THE POOR USER""

2009-04-17 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
pe, is intelligence: the >ability to see the machine as more than when you were first led up to it, that >you can make it more.'' > >Alan J. Perlis (April 1, 1922-February 7, 1990) I had always thought that part of the advantage of Haskell was the ability of being agile

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Unary Minus

2009-04-06 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
omInteger :: Integer -> a > >-- Minimal complete definition: >-- All, except negate or (-) >x - y= x + negate y >negate x = 0 - x The type of "negate," "a -> a", where a is a Num, is precisely what i

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Unary Minus

2009-04-06 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
ts of "'-' followed by (an integer or a float)", and by definition, this is a "negative literal." Integers and floats, in turn, are part of the lexical syntax. -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benjamin L. Russell / DekuDekuplex at Y

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Unary Minus

2009-04-06 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
port/syntax-iso.html), but had difficulty in deriving a unary minus. Could somebody please enlighten me on how to derive the expression "-1" (a unary minus followed the the ascDigit 1) from the above-mentioned BNF grammar? Or is a unary minus not part of this grammar? -- Benjamin L. Ru

[Haskell-cafe] minor typo in "The Haskell 98 Report"

2009-04-06 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
to be >standardised too. (I.e., the word "program" should be plural.) Is this the proper place to report any forthcoming similar typos? -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benjamin L. Russell / DekuDekuplex at Yahoo dot com http://dekudekuplex.wordpress.com/ Translator/Interpreter

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Announcement: Beta of Leksah IDE available

2009-03-31 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
be enlarged or reduced without loss of legibility. Why didn't you submit it in the Haskell Logo Competition? The next time this competition comes around, if you don't mind, please submit this logo as an entry! -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benjamin L. Russell / DekuDekuplex at Yahoo d

[Haskell-cafe] Re: ANNOUNCE: wxAsteroids 1.0

2009-03-29 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
;wxHaskell ... can be difficult to install." Has this difficulty been resolved? I am somewhat hesitant to install wxHaskell because of this reported difficulty. Has anybody had any recent difficulties in installing this package combination on Windows XP Professional, Service Pack 2

[Haskell-cafe] Re: ANNOUNCE: WinGhci, a GUI for GHCI on Windows

2009-03-23 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
l logo here?). Just my two cents for now.... -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benjamin L. Russell / DekuDekuplex at Yahoo dot com http://dekudekuplex.wordpress.com/ Translator/Interpreter / Mobile: +011 81 80-3603-6725 "Furuike ya, kawazu tobikomu mizu

[Haskell-cafe] Re: ANNOUNCE: WinGhci, a GUI for GHCI on Windows

2009-03-23 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
hci/w/list, but the project had no wiki pages. -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benjamin L. Russell / DekuDekuplex at Yahoo dot com http://dekudekuplex.wordpress.com/ Translator/Interpreter / Mobile: +011 81 80-3603-6725 "Furuike ya, kawazu tobikomu mizu no oto." -- Matsuo Basho^ __

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Logo Voting has started!

2009-03-18 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
ks. All choices are initially given the lowest possible >rank. Therefore, rank 1 is the best. -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benjamin L. Russell / DekuDekuplex at Yahoo dot com http://dekudekuplex.wordpress.com/ Translator/Interpreter / Mobile: +011 81 80-3603-6725 "Furu

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Logo Voting has started!

2009-03-18 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
/logos/poll.html. You may find it convenient to keep this page open in a separate tab in your browser when voting. -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benjamin L. Russell / DekuDekuplex at Yahoo dot com http://dekudekuplex.wordpress.com/ Translator/Interpreter / Mobile: +011 81 80-3603-6725 "Furuik

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Logo Voting has started!

2009-03-18 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
with rank 113. The process can take some time, especially at the beginning, since each remaining choice must be compared with all other remaining choices, but is quite thorough. I picked my choices in stages, over a series of time periods, because the entire list was too long to process in one

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Against cuteness

2009-03-13 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
f everything, but the speed of nothing, no? >Water overcomes stone: >Shapeless, it requires no opening: >The benefit of taking no action. > >Yet benefit without action, >And experience without abstraction, >Are practiced by very few. Nice poem. Did you write it yourself, or can

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Against cuteness

2009-03-12 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 03:22:41 +0100, Deniz Dogan wrote: >2009/3/13 Benjamin L. Russell : >> On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:11:15 -0500, Gregg Reynolds >> wrote: > >[snip] > >Why even bother discussing whether a potential mascot should be cute >or not? You guys should com

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell-Wiki Account registration

2009-03-12 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
es most of the risk of this misimpression. Why not ask new users to identify letters in a random bitmapped image of a string, as is commonly done? Then any new user who still registers and starts submitting spam can be tracked and moderated. -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benjamin L.

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Against cuteness

2009-03-12 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
e same stimuli. I know for a fact that this isn't true (I recently saw a study asking Japanese girls to rate different mascots for cuteness, and the poll fell roughly 50-50, as a matter of fact). Which 13-year old Japanese girls are you referring to? -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benjamin L.

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Against cuteness

2009-03-12 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
ng on O'Reilly, potentially Haskellian in spirit, and not animal mascots, but still cute. -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benjamin L. Russell / DekuDekuplex at Yahoo dot com http://dekudekuplex.wordpress.com/ Translator/Interpreter / Mobile: +011 81 80-3603-6725 "Furuike ya

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Logo Preferences

2009-03-09 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
, so that at the election, each variant can be uniquely identified. -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benjamin L. Russell / DekuDekuplex at Yahoo dot com http://dekudekuplex.wordpress.com/ Translator/Interpreter / Mobile: +011 81 80-3603-6725 "Furuike ya, kawazu tobikomu mizu no oto."

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Logo Preferences

2009-03-08 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
the text for the second image, combined with the snowflake symbol for the lower-right corner logo of the leftmost rectangle of images: Although the font for the two is identical, the spacing is subtly wider in the former. -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benjamin L. Russell / DekuD

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Take a break: write an essay for Onward! Essays

2009-03-01 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
ted issues pertaining to Haskell. -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benjamin L. Russell / DekuDekuplex at Yahoo dot com http://dekudekuplex.wordpress.com/ Translator/Interpreter / Mobile: +011 81 80-3603-6725 "Furuike ya, kawazu tobikomu mizu no oto." -- Matsuo Basho^ ___

[Haskell-cafe] Re: The community is more important than the product

2009-02-24 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
ence >from them. What you want is to have a lot of users but not too many >from a research point of view -- hence the avoid success at all costs. "Avoid success at all costs!" -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benjamin L. Russell / DekuDekuplex at Yahoo dot com http://dekudekuplex.

[Haskell-cafe] unresolved Liskell installation problems

2009-02-20 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
for the response. > >This time, a parse error occurs in the building phase: > >> Main.hs:218:0: parse error (possibly incorrect indentation) > >These are lines 218-19 of my Main.hs file: > >> partition_args :: [String] -> [(String, Maybe Phase)] -> [String] >> ->

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Fest

2009-02-09 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
enjamin L. Russell -- Benjamin L. Russell / DekuDekuplex at Yahoo dot com http://dekudekuplex.wordpress.com/ Translator/Interpreter / Mobile: +011 81 80-3603-6725 "Furuike ya, kawazu tobikomu mizu no oto." -- Matsuo Basho^ ___ Haskel

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Monad explanation

2009-02-05 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 21:43:04 -0800, Max Rabkin wrote: >On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Benjamin L. Russell > wrote: >> Is it possible to write a self-referential function in Haskell that >> modifies itself? > >Is it possible to write *any* kind of function in Haskell

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Monad explanation

2009-02-04 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
to reference itself without actually modifying itself, then there should be a way. Alternatively, it should be possible for a Haskell program to create a copy of itself, and then to modify that copy, as long as referential transparency is not violated. To what extent are self-reference and reflectio

[Haskell-cafe] Re: ANN: #haskell-in-depth IRC channel

2009-02-04 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 09:35:03 +, Dougal Stanton wrote: >On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 5:32 AM, Benjamin L. Russell > wrote: > >> If neither #haskell nor #haskell-in-depth is appropriate, >> perhaps they would feel more comfortable in a >> Haskell-beginners-specific channel?

[Haskell-cafe] Re: ANN: #haskell-in-depth IRC channel

2009-02-03 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
#haskell-in-depth is appropriate, perhaps they would feel more comfortable in a Haskell-beginners-specific channel? -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benjamin L. Russell / DekuDekuplex at Yahoo dot com http://dekudekuplex.wordpress.com/ Translator/Interpreter / Mobile: +011 81 80-3603-67

[Haskell-cafe] Re: pure crisis :)

2009-02-03 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
erts say, the crisis has reached it's bottom. Yet some say that the bottom of the crisis is still undefined. -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benjamin L. Russell / DekuDekuplex at Yahoo dot com http://dekudekuplex.wordpress.com/ Translator/Interpreter / Mobile: +011 81 80-

[Haskell-cafe] Re: 1,000 packages, so let's build a few!

2009-02-01 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
we can't figure out, would it be sufficient to subscribe at http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel and to submit a bug report to cabal-de...@haskell.org ? -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benjamin L. Russell / DekuDekuplex at Yahoo dot com http://dekudekuplex.wordpress.com/ Translato

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Bugs in Hugs

2009-01-28 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:45:29 -0500, wren ng thornton wrote: >[...] > >Does anyone know >how to submit bug reports to Hugs these days? Have you tried subscribing to the Hugs Bugs mailing list at http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/hugs-bugs ? -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benjami

[Haskell-cafe] Re: How outdated is Hugs?

2009-01-27 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
ry right now) where one user mentioned that while he preferred Haskell's syntax, he preferred O'Caml's REPL, because it allowed declaring functions in the REPL itself more easily, so this seems to be a common criticism with the GHCi REPL. -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benjamin L. R

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Liskell installation configuration problems in Cygwin on Windows XP Professional, Service Pack 2

2009-01-23 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
1... >Setup.lhs: At least the following dependencies are missing: >ghc-paths -any > >Does anybody know how this issue should be resolved? > >-- Benjamin L. Russell I forgot to mention that I downloaded Liskell by following the instructions on "CFruhwirth's Weblog: Liske

[Haskell-cafe] Liskell installation configuration problems in Cygwin on Windows XP Professional, Service Pack 2

2009-01-23 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
es anybody know how this issue should be resolved? -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benjamin L. Russell / DekuDekuplex at Yahoo dot com http://dekudekuplex.wordpress.com/ Translator/Interpreter / Mobile: +011 81 80-3603-6725 "Furuike ya, kawazu tobikomu mizu no oto.&qu

[Haskell-cafe] Cabal.exe is available from http://haskell.org/~duncan/cabal/, but is not included in the latest cabal-install tool (version 0.6.0).

2009-01-22 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
the cabal.exe installation directory to the path:) >C:\Documents and Settings\Benjamin>cabal --version >cabal-install version 0.6.0 >using version 1.6.0.1 of the Cabal library To facilitate installation for Windows users, perhaps cabal.exe should be bundled with cabal-install-0.6.0.tar.g

[Haskell-cafe] Re: posting newspaper article?

2009-01-13 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
whole point of the mailing list should be to discuss Haskell and relevant topics. In addition, if the content of the editorial is related to beginner-level issues, you also have the option of posting to the Haskell-Beginners mailing list (see http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners). --

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Time for a new logo?

2008-12-23 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
n adjusted in GIMP. First attempt at graphic design. Already posted two days ago at http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_logos/New_logo_ideas. -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benjamin L. Russell / DekuDekuplex at Yahoo dot com http://dekudekuplex.wordpress.com/ Translator/Interpreter / Mobile:

[Haskell-cafe] new "Haskell logos/Logo design tools - HaskellWiki" page [Was: Re: Time for a new logo?]

2008-12-22 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
ogo design tools or logo design-related resource sites, including design advice, please feel free to add to it. The more participation, the better! -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benjamin L. Russell / DekuDekuplex at Yahoo dot com http://dekudekuplex.wordpress.com/ Translator/Interpreter / Mobile

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Time for a new logo?

2008-12-22 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
logos/New_logo_ideas) page. Could you please upload it before it is forgotten? -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benjamin L. Russell / DekuDekuplex at Yahoo dot com http://dekudekuplex.wordpress.com/ Translator/Interpreter / Mobile: +011 81 80-3603-6725 "Furuike ya, kawazu tobikomu

[Haskell-cafe] Re: a haskell_proposals subreddit

2008-12-10 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
d my username to appear below my contribution, I re-deleted the contribution (including the plus vote along with it), and then reposted it (of course, without the vote). However, now it doesn't appear again. I just hope that whoever voted for my contribution resubmits the vote. -- Benjamin

[Haskell-cafe] Re: a haskell_proposals subreddit

2008-12-10 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
bmit a link" sidebar link on the right, and then to fill in the form that appears. Is this correct? -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benjamin L. Russell / DekuDekuplex at Yahoo dot com http://dekudekuplex.wordpress.com/ Translator/Interpreter / Mobile: +011 81 80-3603-

[Haskell-cafe] Re: a haskell_proposals subreddit

2008-12-10 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
oposal with REDDIT, I'll just have to give up there. -- Benjamin L. Russel -- Benjamin L. Russell / DekuDekuplex at Yahoo dot com http://dekudekuplex.wordpress.com/ Translator/Interpreter / Mobile: +011 81 80-3603-6725 "Furuike ya, kawazu tobikomu mizu no oto." -- Matsuo Bash

[Haskell-cafe] Re: a haskell_proposals subreddit

2008-12-10 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
ran" an hour ago, but it hasn't appeared, while a later proposal has appeared. Do I need to have somebody add me to the list of contributors to participate? -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benjamin L. Russell / DekuDekuplex at Yahoo dot com http://dekudekuplex.wordpress.com/ Translato

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell project proposals reddit

2008-12-09 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
for interactive animations with 2D and 3D graphics and sound to replace Fran," thirteen minutes have passed, but my proposal hasn't appeared yet. Is your proposal list at http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell_proposals/ moderated? -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benjamin L. Russell / DekuDekuplex at

[Haskell-cafe] Re: ANNOUNCE: Haskell Communities and Activities Report (15th ed., November 2008)

2008-12-02 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
+ programmers in developing, say, commercial Web sites? This is not quite clear, because even if Haskell can increase programmer productivity by tenfold, a star programmer can also be more productive than an average programmer by tenfold. How risky is this challenge? -- Benjamin L. Russell > &

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Philip Wadler video on Howard-Curry Correspondence ???

2008-11-27 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
involving Haskell, and mentions a correspondence between types and proofs. -- Benjamin L. Russell On Thu, 27 Nov 2008 20:33:37 +0900, Benjamin L.Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:48:19 -0600, "Galchin, Vasili" ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Philip Wadler video on Howard-Curry Correspondence ???

2008-11-27 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
erson for the site hosting the video, Dr. Dobb's TechNetCast (see http://technetcast.ddj.com/), at [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Benjamin L. Russell ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

[Haskell-cafe] (OT) Has GHC stopped being the "Glorious" Glasgow Haskell Compiler?

2008-11-19 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
ng something, or has the nickname been changed? -- Benjamin L. Russell http://dekudekuplex.wordpress.com/ ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

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