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Re: The Downfall of Imperative Programming

Brian McKenna — Sun, 12 May 2013 16:41:01 -0000

The Clean language is always there to use. Play around with it - you might find uniqueness typing does not make things easier.

Re: Learning Haskell Through Koans

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Re: Designing the Haskell IDE

philip andrew — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 10:45:06 -0000

Why not just make it a plugin to an already popular IDE - Sublime Text

Re: The Downfall of Imperative Programming

guillermo presti — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 06:24:29 -0000

I am working in a new graphic language based on functional paradigm at university of catalunya. Multicore processing is our best goal. Please take a look at it.
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salut!
Guillermo Presti

Re: Why I’m investing in FP Complete

Matthias Felleisen — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 09:25:57 -0000

Hi Simon, you write "... and plain training, are all important. They are not researchy, so university academics aren't interested." To this day, it blows my mind when I read that the universally accepted statement that university professors aren't interested in enhancing training i.e. teaching. Morally, this is disgusting and amounts to dereliction of duty. Otherwise I am all with you -- can FPComplete invest 10% in Racket :-) -- Matthias

Re: Designing the Haskell IDE

Edwin Yip — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 12:39:03 -0000

The word 'IDE' always give an impression of 'bloatware', while my LIVEditor project is not actually an IDE, it has 3 things integrated: a code editor, a Chromium powered browser and most interestingly, a Firebug like html/css inspecotor.

I call it 'smart code editor that understands your html/css': http://liveditor.com

Re: The Downfall of Imperative Programming

jsmith47 — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 08:56:19 -0000

True at least to a point. Mutable shared state must be avoided to avoid data races. However, one can still have what amount to data races in say message passing style program.

The simple case is an actor that supports two messages: ('Store', name, value) and ('Retrieve', name). Such an actor basically acts a global mutable hashtable, permitting data race conditions.

Re: The Downfall of Imperative Programming

Erik Zuurbier — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 06:20:04 -0000

If monads are giving imperative programmers such a hard time, as they do for many years, why would Haskell's developers not replace it by a system that is both easier to grasp, and more expressive and kills more data races? I am talking about uniqueness typing. If Haskell's developers so desperately want their good ideas to be adopted by the programming world, they could set the example by doing that themselves, and not treat monads as a religion.

Re: School of Haskell Goes Public

Tony Franks — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 17:03:41 -0000

I just started trying out School of Haskell today based off a recommendation over at stackoverflow. I starting with the "Haskell Hard and Fast" tutorial by Yann Esposito and when I saw the look and feel of the content, the interactivity with the examples and the documentation that pops up when the cursor is next to a library function, I almost had a nerdgasm! Well all of that coupled with the approach that Yann has taken with his tutorial. Thanks for all the great work to all who were/are involved! I look forward to being a part of this community.

Re: School of Haskell Goes Public

Bence Kodaj — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 08:48:10 -0000

Actually, the front page of FP Complete *is* the School of Haskell now.

Re: School of Haskell Goes Public

cheater — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 08:32:45 -0000

a whole article about the school of haskell, not one link to the school of haskell.

Re: Case studies of commercial Haskell use

Chaitanya — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 19:09:00 -0000

While I love FP this is probably not the best way to go forward. These case studies do not cite any numbers, metrics or real world verifiable points. Would it be possible to get this kind of information? Ex: Using Python vs using Haskell (ref: Bump)

Re: Case studies of commercial Haskell use

Ron — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 21:48:39 -0000

My company is using haskell to power a streaming internet radio station. You can check it out at http://www.shartnet.com

Re: Case studies of commercial Haskell use

SonOfLilit — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 15:03:21 -0000

I think I'd feel more trust towards, and learn much more from, the unedited interviews. Are they somehow recorded? Would you and the interviewees be comfortable releasing them?

The one I read (Bump) felt too much like promitional material. I already know Haskell's strong points, I was more interested in the details, and in challenges they had and how they overcame them. I would say I'm interested in knowing what I'll face and not only what I'll gain.

Re: Case studies of commercial Haskell use

Mike — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 14:07:26 -0000

Very insightful. Would read again.

Re: School of Haskell Goes Beta

Michael Bakkemo — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 18:27:01 -0000

how up to date will GHC be kept?

Re: School of Haskell Goes Beta

Bartosz Milewski — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:40:44 -0000

The current FP Complete web site is hosted by Wordpress and it's just one of the lame free templates. We are not changing it because at the end of beta the whole FP Complete web site and blogs are moving to the School of Haskell, which is all ours. SoH is black on white!

Re: School of Haskell Goes Beta

Andy Adams-Moran — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 16:08:30 -0000

We're opening them up in lots of 100 at the moment, while we study the system under load.

Re: School of Haskell Goes Beta

Andy Adams-Moran — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 13:57:09 -0000

These ones: http://www.haskell.org/haskell...

The same pages contain a list for universities using Haskell as a second language too.

Re: School of Haskell Goes Beta

John Salvatier — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 13:24:57 -0000

Wait, really? What universities?

Re: School of Haskell Goes Beta

Oliver Mader — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 13:00:32 -0000

Any idea how long it may take until one receives an invitation?

Re: School of Haskell Goes Beta

Andy Adams-Moran — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 11:54:47 -0000

Haskell is in use by many universities in their first year courses. Why not have a go at the first tutorials, and see what you think? We love to get feedback!

Re: School of Haskell Goes Beta

Bart Massey — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 01:23:01 -0000

For mercy's sake, please replace the light-gray-on-white text on this site with something readable. :-)

That said, this is really great news. I look forward to trying it out myself and with my students.

Re: School of Haskell Goes Beta

Bartosz Milewski — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 23:09:19 -0000

Thanks. Fixed!

Re: School of Haskell Goes Beta

Gabriel Gonzalez — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 19:53:30 -0000

I plan to use it a lot for writing tutorial posts. I care a lot about attracting new Haskell programmers and I would much prefer to let them experiment with my code examples live than ask them to download the Haskell platform.