[Haskell-cafe] Norvig's Sudoku Solver in Haskell

2007-08-26 Thread manu
Hello, After reading Peter Norvig's take on writing a Sudoku solver (http:// norvig.com/sudoku.html) I decided that I would port his program to Haskell, without changing the algorithm, that'll make a nice exercise I thought and should be fairly easy... Boy, was I wrong ! Anyway, I eventually

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Norvig's Sudoku Solver in Haskell

2007-08-26 Thread manu
From: Malte Milatz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Norvig's Sudoku Solver in Haskell Your program was wrapped by your mail client, so you may want to hpaste your program for easier digestion. here it is : http://hpaste.org/2452 Your profiling output suggests that much tim

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Norvig's Sudoku Solver in Haskell

2007-08-27 Thread manu
p his version on hpaste : http://hpaste.org/2452#a1 Manu On Aug 26, 2007, at 10:56 PM, Daniel Fischer wrote: Without much thinking I can spped it up by a factor of 4 (from 280s to 60s). The most important things are: - don't use length unless you need it instead of newV2 <- case length n

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Norvig's Sudoku Solver in Haskell

2007-08-27 Thread manu
From: Daniel Fischer > Thought it was something like that. > Must check whether that beats Norvig's constraint propagation. it does ! on my machine : Jon Harrop's : 12.5 sec and Norvig's : 15 sec Manu ___ Haskell-Cafe mail

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Tiny documentation request

2007-09-10 Thread manu
Neil Mitchell wrotes : Replicating actual tables with CSS is a nightmare - you shouldn't use table's for lots of things, I agree but there are sometimes when it really is the best option. Which isn't the case here ! Nested lists would easily do the trick... Fixing up the CSS and still kee

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Tiny documentation request

2007-09-11 Thread manu
On Sep 11, 2007, Simon Marlow wrote: Please, please, someone do this for me. I tried, and failed, to get the layout right for the contents list in all browsers at the same time. The semantics of CSS is beyond my comprehension. Cheers, Simon Hi Simon, On the page http://www.ha

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Tiny documentation request

2007-09-12 Thread manu
On Sep 11, 2007, at 9:58 PM, Miguel Mitrofanov wrote: Well, I'm not a web designer, but I did work with few of them, and it seems to me that you either create a table design in two hours or spend three days trying to create a CSS one and THEN create a table design in two hours. That's an exa

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Suspected stupid Haskell Question

2007-10-17 Thread manu
> The problem there is that nub is O(n^2). Is there a place where one can look up the complexity of Standard Libraries functions ? E.D ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

[Haskell-cafe] What algorithm to use ?

2007-10-22 Thread manu
Hello I am not sure it is appropriate to post to this mailing list to inquire about a peculiar algorithm, if not let me know... I was looking at one particular puzzle posted on the Facebook site, 'Wiretaps' (http://www.facebook.com/jobs_puzzles/?puzzle_id=11). Briefly, you have 26 program

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why can't Haskell be faster?

2007-10-31 Thread manu
en Haskell and Clean is how side-effects are allowed (Uniqueness Types for Clean, and Monadic I/O for Haskell) GHC also supports a lot of extensions beyong Haskell98. Does it explain the difference in performances ? I don't know... Experts please ! Manu

[Haskell-cafe] WideFinder

2007-11-07 Thread manu
e.com/ blog/2007/09/25/what-the-heck-is-a-wide-finder-anyway/) that would place Haskell right in the second position. JoCaml is the fastest so far (http://eigenclass.org/hiki.rb?fast- widefinder)... Can Haskell do better ? Care to take a shot ?

[Haskell-cafe] Cabal and DB packages

2007-11-25 Thread manu
Could not find module `Distribution.Program': Use -v to see a list of the files searched for. I give up... Is there any simple way to do it though ? Is there any problems with Cabal that I need to work around ? Help !! Manu ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

[Haskell-cafe] Downside of -fglasgow-extensions

2007-11-28 Thread manu
Hello, I'm trying to build diverse packages from Hackage with ghc 6.8.1, they usually fail to build because of missing language extensions. Sometimes I am unable to determine the proper name of the extension missing in .cabal I tend to slap {- #OPTIONS -fglasgow-exts #-} at the top of the tr

[Haskell-cafe] Pb building HDBC-sqlite3

2007-11-28 Thread manu
Hello still, trying to use a database with ghc 6.8.1 - patience running low however :) I now have troubles installing HDBC-sqlite3 the build fails like so : > $ runhaskell Setup.lhs build Preprocessing library HDBC-sqlite3-1.1.3.0... Utils.hsc:31:33: error: hdbc-sqlite3-helper.h:

[Haskell-cafe] Pb builind hdbc-sqlite3 (suite)

2007-11-28 Thread manu
ding HDBC-sqlite3-1.1.3.0... [3 of 7] Compiling Database.HDBC.Sqlite3.Utils ( dist/build/Database/ HDBC/Sqlite3/Utils.hs, dist/build/Database/HDBC/Sqlite3/Utils.o ) Database/HDBC/Sqlite3/Utils.hsc:74:8: parse error on input `import' manu:/Volumes/data/Downloads/HDBC/hdbc-sqlite3 manu$ >>>

[Haskell-cafe] Pb builind hdbc-sqlite3 (the end)

2007-11-28 Thread manu
Hello I should think a bit before posting to the list, sorry for the pollution ! this error : Database/HDBC/Sqlite3/Utils.hsc:74:8: parse error on input `import' manu:/Volumes/data/Downloads/HDBC/hdbc-sqlite3 manu$ can be avoided by adding ForeignFunctionInterface to the extensions

[Haskell-cafe] Haskell and DB : giving up

2007-11-28 Thread manu
Hello I've spent a few days trying to install all the packages required to use HaskellDB with either MySQL or SQlite3 (the only 2 DB the host I was thinking about is supporting) Well, I am giving up ! I seriously regret replacing ghc-6.6 with ghc-6.8, I didn't expect that building packages

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell-Cafe Digest, Vol 51, Issue 180

2007-11-28 Thread manu
uldn't get past... I didn't bother with hsql-mysql-1.7 since Duncan Coutts mentioned it required significant work (and I cannot do much) Manu ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell and DB : giving up

2007-11-29 Thread manu
still is largely marginal (like say... websites). Manu ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

[Haskell-cafe] Problem building hdbc-sqlite3 with ghc 6.8.2

2008-01-02 Thread manu
hello, has anybody managed to build hdbc-sqlite3 with ghc 6.8.2 ? I get the following error : Macintosh:HDBC-sqlite3-1.1.3.0 manu$ runhaskell Setup.lhs build Preprocessing library HDBC-sqlite3-1.1.3.0... ghc-6.8.2: unrecognised flags: -F/Users/manu/Library/Frameworks Usage: For basic

[Haskell-cafe] Building c2hs on a mac

2007-04-06 Thread manu
Hello, I'd be interested to know if anybody had managed to build c2hs on a mac recently because I've tried the current darcs version, c2hs-0.14.5, c2hs-0.14.3, c2hs-0.13.6, etc... to no avail I get this with c2hs-0.14.5 : ./Setup.hs configure ./Setup.hs:11:57: Couldn't match expected

[Haskell-cafe] Beginner SOS

2009-05-27 Thread Manu Gupta
ursue it as a serious programming languages Till now I have referred Haskell wiki and have tried everywhere but does not seem to learn it PLZ, PLZ HELP ME OUT -- Regards MANU ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskel