[Haskell-cafe] open positions for functional programmers

2010-03-29 Thread Regis Saint-Paul
hurt either. If you are interested, please submit your application to itj...@create-net.org Details on the open position and ideal profile may be found on http://www.create-net.org Best, Regis Saint-Paul CREATE-NET P.S. Note that although we are a research center, these openings are for deve

RE: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal install on Windows 7

2009-09-15 Thread Regis Saint-Paul
> > - use windows API for requesting elevation during the process (ugly) > > If it really has to be done, then this seems like the best approach. In > principle there's no problem with calling funky win32 functions in > Cabal, it's mostly a matter of working out what bahaviour we want and > what

RE: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal install on Windows 7

2009-09-10 Thread Regis Saint-Paul
One last note as it may be confusing in previous message...I mention to use windows API, but there is no API per-se that can elevate a process already running. It takes to create another process which, at startup time, will popup the elevation dialog. The win32 function to call is therefore just th

RE: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal install on Windows 7

2009-09-10 Thread Regis Saint-Paul
t;ugly" is not appropriate. It just builds down to more work and more platform specific code. Cheers, Regis > -Original Message- > From: Matthijs Kooijman [mailto:matth...@stdin.nl] > Sent: Thursday, 10 September 2009 3:25 PM > To: Regis Saint-Paul > Cc: haskell-cafe@ha

RE: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal install on Windows 7

2009-09-10 Thread Regis Saint-Paul
One way in which cabal can be made UAC aware (and therefore request for elevation privileges instead of just failing) would be to embed a manifest in the cabal.exe. This can be done by changing the default manifest (an XML file) that is embedded at link time by GHC. This is supported by GHC through

[Haskell-cafe] real haskell difficulties (at least for me)

2009-01-13 Thread Regis Saint-Paul
Hi, I’ve seen many times the monad topic coming around on the cafe and plentiful tutorials on monads have been published. However, as a complete Haskell newbie coming from OOP, I felt monads were not particularly difficult to grasp, and very exciting to work with. During my experiments with Has

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

2008-12-17 Thread Regis Saint-Paul
uch if printed in black and white vs. color or when resized to icon size. The fact it can be rendered in ascii-art is even better. The relation to the topic is quiet optional (hence all the "cute-animal-based" logo). It is however welcomed when it doesn't hurt the design (as in [1])