Re: [Haskell-cafe] haskell.org is so fragile

2012-07-13 Thread Gaius Hammond
It would have to be rewritten in Haskell and called Harnish. Gaius -- -Original Message- From: Bardur Arantsson s...@scientician.net Sender: haskell-cafe-boun...@haskell.org Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 01:28:30 To: haskell-cafe@haskell.org Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe]

Re: [Haskell-cafe] bindings for libvirt

2012-01-16 Thread Gaius Hammond
The author of libvirt, Richard Jones, is an OCaml hacker. G -- -Original Message- From: Michael Litchard mich...@schmong.org Sender: haskell-cafe-boun...@haskell.org Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 14:05:56 To: haskell-cafe@haskell.org Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] bindings

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Message

2011-10-21 Thread Gaius Hammond
There's no technical reason why not; Twitter is written in Scala and Facebook's chat system in Erlang. Would I see *myself* working at one of these companies? Not likely. Cheers, G -- -Original Message- From: Goutam Tmv vo1d_poin...@live.com Sender:

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Enterprise Haskell -- help

2011-05-26 Thread Gaius Hammond
On 26 May 2011, at 21:34, Jason Dagit wrote: On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Gaius Hammond ga...@gaius.org.uk wrote: Over in OCaml-land, I have taken it upon myself to address this: http://gaiustech.github.com/ociml/ Takusen already supports Oracle (and other rdbms) in a resource

Re: [Haskell-cafe] who's in charge?

2010-10-31 Thread Gaius Hammond
On 29 Oct 2010, at 07:33, Gregory Crosswhite wrote: Also, this is a complete aside but what the heck. :-) Has anyone else been driven crazy by the way that Java code and libraries are documented? It seems like whenever I try to figure out how to use a piece of Java code, the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ghci - always show types

2010-10-17 Thread Gaius Hammond
On 13 Oct 2010, at 16:55, Ozgur Akgun wrote: Cafe, Just a quick question. Either I am hallucinating or there was a way of saying ghci to always show types. It was working as if you typed :t it after every line of input. Sorry, I searched but couldn't find the option via google. Hope

Re: [Haskell-cafe] PSA: using MySQL from Haskell programs

2010-09-07 Thread Gaius Hammond
On 7 Sep 2010, at 18:46, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote: If you are using HDBC-mysql or HDBC-odbc to access MySQL databases, you may have run into problems with your programs failing due to connection errors. In this blog posting, I describe what's happening and how to work around it:

Re: [Haskell-cafe] help me evangelize haskell.

2010-09-04 Thread Gaius Hammond
My usual rhetoric is that one-off, throwaway scripts never are, and not only do they tend to stay around but they take on a life of their own. Today's 10-line file munger is tomorrow's thousand-line ETL batch job on which the business depends for some crucial data - yet the original author is

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why does ghci recompile the module compiled in different OS ?

2010-09-04 Thread Gaius Hammond
Are you trying to use the .o compiled on BSD on Linux? They are two different operating systems. So the Linux ghci isn't using the .o, it's using the .hs. Even getting Haskell binaries to run on two different versions of Linux can be an adventure...

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ghc in macports

2010-08-12 Thread Gaius Hammond
On 12 Aug 2010, at 12:52, Hans Aberg wrote: its not for those that also installs standard distributions, it seems. But what's wrong with the binaries listed here: http://haskell.org/ghc/ Fairly easy to install. Yes and no; on OSX 10.5.8 it works better to install GHC from the binary

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell in Industry

2010-08-11 Thread Gaius Hammond
On 11 Aug 2010, at 08:30, Ketil Malde wrote: ng on FP in general as well. But as I interpreted this thread, the premise was not about the morality of specific sectors, but rather that finance takes away too much of the FP talent. My opinion is that we should rather appreciate business

Re: [Haskell-cafe] finding out which gcc is hard-coded into a ghc?

2010-08-06 Thread Gaius Hammond
On 6 Aug 2010, at 18:05, Günther Schmidt wrote: Hello, how can I find out which gcc a ghc is hard-coded to use and is it possible to override it? See this page: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.12.2/html/users_guide/options-phases.html Cheers, G

Re: [Haskell-cafe] haskell platform questions

2010-07-12 Thread Gaius Hammond
Hi, This is still happening with the current DMG on the website, my solution has been to install GHC from the DMG, then get the source for Haskell Platform (haskell-platform-2010.1.0.0.tar.gz) and build it myself. Cheers, G On 22 Mar 2010, at 04:02, Warren Harris wrote: I

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Where can I get GHC for Solaris?

2009-07-07 Thread gaius hammond
Quoting John Ky newho...@gmail.com: Hi, Anyone know where I can get the GHC compiler and libraries for Solaris?: I'm using this one: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_683.html#sparcsolaris Cheers, G -- - Visit Pipex Business:

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Facebook puzzles allow for GHC solutions

2009-05-27 Thread Gaius Hammond
On 27 May 2009, at 19:45, Bulat Ziganshin wrote: actually, of 5 compiled languages there, 3 are FP, and only 2 remaining are the most popular languages on planet - C++ and Java so this list shows their huge respect to FP It is well known that Facebook are heavy Erlang users.