This mailing list is for developers interested in writing open source code using functional programming languages. Our first project is HaSh - a Unix shell...
Brook Conner
nellardo@...
Aug 20, 1999 3:56 pm
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Brook, Did you send invitations to the others who responded to my original posting??? Regards, Bill bhalchi-@... wrote: original...
bhalchin@...
Aug 20, 1999 8:14 pm
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Brook, In addition to Haskell (which I personally like very much), let's make this group a general FPL group for Linux, e.g. Hope, Hugs, Scheme (yes, I know it...
Bill Halchin
bhalchin@...
Aug 20, 1999 11:47 pm
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... I sent invitations to the people that had replied as of this morning, as well as a couple of people I know in the (geographical) area. Brook ... Enter any...
David Brookshire Conner
nellardo@...
Aug 21, 1999 3:44 am
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... I'm not in principle opposed to including projects in all sorts of FPLs - in fact, there's some nifty OOPLs that I'd love to include too (Self comes...
David Brookshire Conner
nellardo@...
Aug 21, 1999 4:28 am
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I see we've got about a dozen people on the list, now, and I wanted to welcome everyone. And of course get the ball rolling on discussion. I'll start out with...
David Brookshire Conner
nellardo@...
Aug 31, 1999 4:13 pm
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So, what kinds of things do you most want to do on this mailing list? ... Please select one or more of the following: o Talk about promoting functional...
nellardo@...
Aug 31, 1999 5:22 pm
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bhalchi-@... wrote: original article:http://www.egroups.com/group/hash-open-source/?start=6 ... to ... Fine!! ... ^^^ You mean using Haskell98 syntax...
bhalchin@...
Aug 31, 1999 6:51 pm
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... Yes, that's a good one, though I'd suggest mimicking the MIME type hierarchy as much as possible. That means that the types will be readily understood. So,...
David Brookshire Conner
nellardo@...
Sep 1, 1999 4:02 pm
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This is just a quick note to ask you to use the email address you subscribed with when posting to the list. I don't want random spam so only members can post....
David Brookshire Conner
nellardo@...
Sep 1, 1999 4:05 pm
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... Excellent source of project ideas. I'll start keeping a list. Also, if anyone wants to keep a list of existing projects (or contribute your own project,...
David Brookshire Conner
nellardo@...
Sep 1, 1999 4:13 pm
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... Yes, that's exactly what I meant. To me, it seems designing a new language for a shell shouldn't be necessary - if the FPLs we like are so good, why can't...
David Brookshire Conner
nellardo@...
Sep 1, 1999 4:58 pm
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Would it be possible to adapt (the idea from) Haskells type class system and apply it to streams (a.k.a. files)? Could you have a hierarchy (or graph) that...
Ketil Z Malde
ketil@...
Sep 1, 1999 6:09 pm
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... Why not exchange ideas about : what could be implemented in FPL and has not yet be done ... some of my ideas: - FPL compilation we have always problem...
Steve Van_Der_Hoeven
Steve.Van_Der_Hoeven@...
Sep 1, 1999 6:09 pm
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... A training, would be to compile Pascal. It's a simple language, with poor semantics. But completly defined (normalized). Or if you want we could make a...
Steve Van_Der_Hoeven
Steve.Van_Der_Hoeven@...
Sep 2, 1999 3:28 pm
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Hi, Talking of what interesting that could be done in Haskell, we could implement some nice GUI libraries in Haskell. I suppose there are some GUI libraries...
Jatin Shah
jatin@...
Sep 3, 1999 3:20 am
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... I would agree, however, given that there are several complete and adequate libraries in other languages, doing a Haskell GUI library seems more like "me...
David Brookshire Conner
nellardo@...
Sep 3, 1999 5:53 pm
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... As much as possible, but no more :-) MIME is a bit crude, look at all the different Application/ms-word files out there, for instance. I think the...
Ketil Z Malde
ketil@...
Sep 7, 1999 3:29 am
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... How about using Haskell to provide application internals as a shared library, and using Guile+Gtk or Tk/Tcl or something to implement the GUI and hook up...
Ketil Z Malde
ketil@...
Sep 7, 1999 3:29 am
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... Well, I personally have two problems with that approach (neither of which negate the approach as a good engineering solution - I may try to be a purist but...
David Brookshire Conner
nellardo@...
Sep 7, 1999 4:30 pm
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... Exactly - by suggesting MIME, my intent was to suggest a place to start that programmers new to Haskell will be familiar with. ... Yeah, but lots of...
David Brookshire Conner
nellardo@...
Sep 7, 1999 4:39 pm
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... Personally, I like the concept of a separation between UI and application innards, as it were. It lets you wrap it in different front ends (more or less)...
Ketil Z Malde
ketil@...
Sep 8, 1999 2:54 pm
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... Generally, I've found that applications often end up with enough assumptions about interaction within the "application" part that this doesn't work well....
David Brookshire Conner
nellardo@...
Sep 8, 1999 8:38 pm
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Hi all, Guess it's time for the clueless to speak up...please take it all with a boulder of salt...I'm still catching up on all of this from a technical...
jerseyj
jerseyj@...
Sep 8, 1999 8:44 pm
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... Exactly - the FrameMaker user is happy, because da can use the same app anywhere. The Mac user is pissed off. But even the frame user is annoyed. For...
David Brookshire Conner
nellardo@...
Sep 8, 1999 9:47 pm
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... well, if I were designing software in a perfect universe I'd probably give the user the option when he/she installed the software (maybe at other points)...
jerseyj
jerseyj@...
Sep 9, 1999 6:26 pm
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... Wuh? The old app is just used as a library, it doesn't worry about (user) interface. Example: Old app is a ..umm.. gif viewer. Make that JPEG, lest ...
Ketil Z Malde
ketil@...
Sep 10, 1999 2:35 pm
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Hi, This discussion is proceeding a bit aimlessly for quite some time (correct me if I am wrong). As has been pointed our earlier in one of the mails, one...
Jatin Shah
jatin@...
Sep 17, 1999 5:18 am
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... Yep. So, here's my preliminary thoughts: MHAK - Making Haskell Aware of KDE Bindings from Haskell to KDE and Qt. There are some interesting aspects here,...
David Brookshire Conner
nellardo@...
Sep 19, 1999 4:08 am
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... And here's some further notes.... Notes on Reproducing MOC-equivalents in Haskell =============================================== What Does MOC Do? ...
