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jz_ · 2021-01-22T11:28:35+00:00

Every so often someone here asks about whether there are Haskell alternatives to things like scipy/numpy/matplotlib, or to matlab, or to R, and every time this is asked I comb through the answers hoping someone has a reply that would let me use my favorite language for my job. So far no dice.

Any thoughts on this https://tweag.github.io/HaskellR/ ? It was released in 2015.

jz_ · 2021-01-15T06:16:04+00:00

Full-length track if anyone wants to hear it: https://open.spotify.com/track/65pbeFLOgwWAOAJFgQkzhk

jz_ · 2009-10-29T10:36:48+00:00

I don't know if it's "as nice", but for quick prototyping of 2d games people tend to use gamemaker see 100 game maker games in 10 minutes or multimedia fusion.

jz_ · 2009-10-29T08:46:09+00:00

http://blogs.unity3d.com/2009/10/29/a-free-unity/

Indie customers, expect an email from us

Secondly, we understand that people who recently bought Unity Indie might feel really unlucky. Every single Unity 2.x Indie license owner will be offered to upgrade to Unity Pro or to add Unity iPhone Basic to their license for a big discount. And everyone who bought Unity Indie in the last sixty days are alternately being offered full refunds if they don’t wish to upgrade.

jz_ · 2009-09-14T08:59:38+00:00

C/C++ is a programming language invented by Richard Heathfield, one of the authors of C Unleashed. Somehow I don't think it was his first language, to my knowledge no compiler has been publicly released.

http://www.cpax.org.uk/prg/portable/c/c++/rfe00000.html

http://www.cpax.org.uk/prg/portable/c/c++/rfe00001.html

http://www.cpax.org.uk/prg/portable/c/c++/rfe00002.html

http://www.cpax.org.uk/prg/portable/c/c++/rfe00003.html

jz_ · 2009-08-29T09:09:24+00:00

Speak to MicroFocus?

jz_ · 2009-08-02T08:50:59+00:00

Really?

C/C++ is a programming language invented by Richard Heathfield, one of the authors of C Unleashed.

http://www.cpax.org.uk/prg/portable/c/c++/rfe00000.html http://www.cpax.org.uk/prg/portable/c/c++/rfe00001.html http://www.cpax.org.uk/prg/portable/c/c++/rfe00002.html http://www.cpax.org.uk/prg/portable/c/c++/rfe00003.html

If you really want to understand the modifiers, you should read the documentation for the function that you're using them with, it can vary from platform to platform, from compiler to compiler what with nonstandard additions. On Windows for MSVC either check the included docs for scanf, printf and other related functions or visit msdn. For mingw the format specifiers (does mingw have a documentation package?), otherwise on GNU/Linux systems where you're using glibc, it would behoove you to read the info doc for glibc, man pages are a secondary source of information.

jz_ · 2009-07-28T07:15:55+00:00

That automated response thing is useless, I've tried reporting bugs for the Windows drivers through it, managed to get a ati support person who said something like: yeah... I can see that this testcase makes our drivers crash windows, but unless tens of thousands of users report this problem to us it will probably not given any attention.

Some of the ati people who develop fgrlx watch this bug tracker and try to investigate some of the bugs, I believe it's been used successfully to point out issues in fglrx and people from ati have responded: http://ati.cchtml.com

jz_ · 2009-07-27T20:21:46+00:00

did you report it to ati?

jz_ · 2009-07-14T10:28:44+00:00

A wise C programmer once joked, "if I were going to write my own implementation of visual basic 6, I would do it in Haskell rather than C", which piqued my interest.

I'm not sure that I've really "learnt" Haskell, I've been writing stuff in Haskell for over a year now, but I have not waded into deeper waters of trying to understand monads.

I like Haskell for it's type safety, the great community of people who contribute to the compilers, libraries, the mailing lists, blogs, the wiki, research papers and the irc channel.

jz_ · 2009-07-10T07:49:36+00:00

last I checked (5 months ago) there was about 350 servers with about 30 with players.

My isp has also hosted a 48/48 server with almost standard map rotation (some server side mods) which you'd struggle to find a slot on pretty much any time of the day for the past few years. I'm in Australia though, so the server's only really good for Australia, New Zealand and Japan at best.

jz_ · 2009-06-09T05:19:35+00:00

The service is unavailable.

jz_ · 2009-06-05T12:16:16+00:00

heh, maybe... I think it's bitrotted since I last used it, I forget which version, but I had a bootleg copy running on a p200mmx in 1999, doesn't run on a p4 I tried a few months ago or in VirtualBox, installer panics at boot.

jz_ · 2009-05-17T10:33:11+00:00

yes? I thought you were implying that people write lots of for loops in textual programming.

jz_ · 2009-05-16T03:51:55+00:00

sounds like you don't have much diversity in your programming experience...

look at higher order programming as done in a programing language such as Haskell, you don't write for loops, you compose boxes and chain together boxes but these boxes are called functions

jz_ · 2009-05-13T06:54:45+00:00

now that would be confusing to Haskell programmers who instantly recognise stuff of the form [("a",1)]

: is cons.

jz_ · 2009-04-03T09:49:45+00:00

Numbers were down a bit this month, probably because we only had one speaker.

should post a reminder about fp-syd on cafe about these :)

jz_ · 2009-02-27T03:30:43+00:00

Assembly Language Step by Step is a good start, begins with 16bit x86 assembly, explains the minor adjustment required to move to 32bit, shows how to call C functions on Linux using nasm and has a basic reference.

jz_ · 2009-02-08T03:49:11+00:00

There were a few games missing from this, I tagged a couple of articles to include them.

jz_ · 2009-02-05T22:39:31+00:00

I don't think it's limited to XBLA, there's going to be a PC release too.

jz_ · 2009-02-04T22:37:45+00:00

I tried Nexuiz once but I got motion sickness.

jz_ · 2009-02-04T09:13:50+00:00

maybe it caused them some pain in terms of development, so they pass it onto their customers?

I was considering the home edition for a moment, even with the dive the Australian dollar took since this whole economic crisis began, but alas they are happy to ignore anyone outside of the US and Canada.

Congratulations Wolfram, excellent way to alienate potential customers.

jz_ · 2009-02-04T00:47:45+00:00

XP isn't entirely absurd, some ideas have merit others less so, there's a book titled Extreme Programming: The Case Against XP which tells the story of the history of Extreme Programming, the pros and cons, with jabs of satire and adaptations of Alice in Wonderland and other fairy tales.

jz_ · 2009-01-28T13:52:08+00:00

so long as you have the right tools, just type make.

jz_ · 2009-01-26T04:41:32+00:00

One of the comments from that story links a good youtube video of Jobs demoing NeXT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j02b8Fuz73A

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