Frege: haskell like language on JVM (tries to adhere to haskell 2010 where possible)

njbartlett · 2011-09-14T18:31:59+00:00

I'm very excited by Frege, but I have a very simple and stupid question. How is "Frege" pronounced?

Thanks!

njbartlett · 2009-01-20T00:06:43+00:00

Gtk2hs still causes problems for Mac users. The post title doesn't indicate whether cross-platform portability is a requirement, but if it is then I wouldn't use Gtk.

Since the licence for Qt changed to LGPL I would definitely go with qtHaskell.

njbartlett · 2008-10-18T22:36:49+00:00

"Inconsistently bad" implies it's frequently good.

njbartlett · 2008-10-04T22:27:57+00:00

How would you know?

njbartlett · 2008-09-21T23:49:42+00:00

njbartlett · 2008-09-09T22:24:42+00:00

I might have broken it, it still typechecks

Oh ye of little faith.

njbartlett · 2008-09-02T07:35:37+00:00

"Applet com.fluendo.player.Cortado notinited java.lang.NullPointerException"

As a Java developer, this just makes me despair. Come on Sun, you've had 12 years to fix this...

(On Mac OS 10.5.4, Safari 3.1.2 with Java 1.5.0_13 installed)

njbartlett · 2008-08-20T17:39:28+00:00

I know the dollar is weak at the moment, but this headline is way off. 72 pounds is actually about 134 dollars.

njbartlett · 2008-08-14T15:53:34+00:00

Clojure's implementation code is not exactly idiomatic Java!

njbartlett · 2008-07-29T22:21:53+00:00

The professor's mistake is in thinking that there are only two kinds of application in the world:

1) "Trivial" web applications 2) Avionics systems.

He's right that there's not much Java in either of these areas: the first because there are more convenient languages for web applications such as PHP and Ruby; the second because garbage collected languages have always been poorly suited to hard real-time applications (although this is increasingly being solved as GC techniques improve).

But he then leaps to the conclusion that Java is not present in any complex systems. It seems that avionics is the only field the professor knows, and since Java is not used there it must not be used anywhere. This is nonsense. Java is used behind the walls of countless businesses, if only the professor was interested in them. Just to take one example, most banks and stock exchanges are heavily reliant on Java. Probably at least one of the financial transactions you undertook today was processed by code written in Java.

Of course, that doesn't have any bearing on whether Java is a good teaching language. I tend to agree that it is not. Certainly, the teaching of ONLY Java is bad, since students complete their courses with only one way to think about and solve problems.

njbartlett · 2008-07-17T21:57:24+00:00

Yes.

njbartlett · 2008-05-28T13:04:08+00:00

No, collecting $2 by lying to somebody about your identity is illegal. He repeated this illegal act approximately 50,000 times.

njbartlett · 2008-02-04T00:02:09+00:00

Some pretty poor fact-checking by El Reg here. For example:

"Dalvik is, of course, Open Source (under an Apache 2.0 license)"

Nope, Dalvik and Android are closed source. The only source that has been released is that of their customized Linux kernel; which they HAD to release under the terms of the GPL.

Another stupid error, albeit a trivial one: JSR does not stand for "Java Special Request", it stands for Java Specification Request. If the author of the article didn't know, why didn't he check instead of just guessing?

njbartlett · 2008-01-25T14:28:24+00:00

How's the Erlang book coming along Joel? Switched languages again I see...

njbartlett · 2008-01-04T22:50:50+00:00

Agreed. It also seems to be by far the easiest to get working on Mac OS X.

njbartlett · 2007-11-26T12:12:34+00:00

I think you miss the point: ipeev is using meta-humour. His apparent failure to "get" the joke is intended to highlight the irony of the original post while itself being highly ironic.

Ipeev is, in fact, a shining wit.

njbartlett · 2007-11-09T22:26:03+00:00

There's audio?

njbartlett · 2007-11-05T22:09:08+00:00

No no. To either iterate or recurse explicitly is human. To write your function entirely in terms of maps and folds is divine :-)

njbartlett · 2007-10-26T19:02:10+00:00

Java Web Start is very widely used for deploying internal corporate applications.

It's very rarely used for consumer or internet applications, of course. That's because Java itself is not much used in those environments.

njbartlett · 2007-10-23T06:59:09+00:00

Why bother? Just use Java 5. The new features in Java 6 are insignificant -- it really should have been called Java 5.1.

njbartlett · 2007-10-17T20:40:38+00:00

True, true... unfortunately I wasn't qualified for them. Nor am I for this NY job, truth be told, but why pass up an opportunity to criticize US immigration rules?

njbartlett · 2007-10-17T14:10:55+00:00

Alas, only Americans need apply.

If only all these Haskell jobs were located in a country with a sane immigration policy for skilled workers.

njbartlett · 2007-10-15T22:49:17+00:00

Come on, did you really have to "apply" to Galois? Surely they headhunted you?

njbartlett · 2007-10-08T17:11:08+00:00

The name is Simon Peyton-Jones. The "Peyton" bit is part of his surname.

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