Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] yi or not to yi was: IDE?

2007-06-18 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Andrew, Monday, June 18, 2007, 9:31:46 PM, you wrote: > OTOH... how the heck do you write an operating system in a language that > doesn't even support I/O? :-S it does lazily creates new world on each IO operation. advantages: if some file will be never used in future, it will not be writ

Re: [Haskell-cafe] yi or not to yi was: IDE?

2007-06-18 Thread Creighton Hogg
On 6/18/07, Andrew Coppin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Creighton Hogg wrote: > > > On 6/18/07, *Andrew Coppin* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > That reminds me... Somebody should write an *OS* in Haskell! :-D > > > Well, there hasn't been a lot of work done on the su

Re: [Haskell-cafe] yi or not to yi was: IDE?

2007-06-18 Thread Andrew Coppin
Creighton Hogg wrote: On 6/18/07, *Andrew Coppin* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: That reminds me... Somebody should write an *OS* in Haskell! :-D Well, there hasn't been a lot of work done on the subject but you probably should look at http://programatica.cs.pd

Re: [Haskell-cafe] yi or not to yi was: IDE?

2007-06-18 Thread Isaac Dupree
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Coppin wrote: > OTOH... how the heck do you write an operating system in a language that > doesn't even support I/O? :-S Back when I was first learning programming, with C, I had that exact same question: how the heck can your program DO anythi

Re: [Haskell-cafe] yi or not to yi was: IDE?

2007-06-18 Thread Creighton Hogg
On 6/18/07, Andrew Coppin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Pasqualino 'Titto' Assini wrote: > I think that we should not underestimate the transforming power of dogged > determination. > > Think of Linux: only a terminal idiot could have conceived the plan of writing > from scratch a clone of a 20 yea

Re: [Haskell-cafe] yi or not to yi was: IDE?

2007-06-18 Thread Alex Queiroz
Hallo, On 6/18/07, Andrew Coppin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: OTOH... how the heck do you write an operating system in a language that doesn't even support I/O? :-S You can start from here: http://programatica.cs.pdx.edu/House/ Cheers, -- -alex http://www.ventonegro.org/ _

Re: [Haskell-cafe] yi or not to yi was: IDE?

2007-06-18 Thread Andrew Coppin
Pasqualino 'Titto' Assini wrote: I think that we should not underestimate the transforming power of dogged determination. Think of Linux: only a terminal idiot could have conceived the plan of writing from scratch a clone of a 20 years old operating system (Unix) when everybody knew that mome

Re: [Haskell-cafe] yi or not to yi was: IDE?

2007-06-18 Thread Claus Reinke
I think that we should not underestimate the transforming power of dogged determination. .. So, the idea of writing an Emacs-like system in Haskell might be ill-considered but, as you also notice in the rest of your message, that doesn't make it worthless in a long-term perspective. indeed.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] yi or not to yi was: IDE?

2007-06-18 Thread Michael T. Richter
On Mon, 2007-18-06 at 09:49 +0100, Pasqualino 'Titto' Assini wrote: > Maybe, just maybe, yi might play a similar role for Haskell. This is what I am hoping for (and why I'm now trying to get Yi working). I just hope it doesn't become the stovepipe that emacs is. -- Michael T. Richter <[EMAIL P

[Haskell-cafe] yi or not to yi was: IDE?

2007-06-18 Thread Pasqualino 'Titto' Assini
On Sunday 17 June 2007 23:56:51 Claus Reinke wrote: > i didn't know that Yi had acquired a tongue-in-cheek mode > already!-) at least i hope that's what it was, because the ermacs > lesson was not about contributing code or better language, but > about sheer size and momentum being in favour of the