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  Tuesday 26 March 2002
Haskell exercise from Thompson's book

The Pragmatic Programmers run a community project called Language of the Year. There is a mailing list. This year's language is the Functional Programming language Haskell.

I had borrowed and read half of Simon Thompson's The Craft of Functional Programming a couple of years ago. (Had to return that copy to its owner.)

Recently, there was a question on the mailing list, about one of the exercises in that book. I wrote up a bloody account of several unsatisfying solutions, and one somewhat satisfying solution. Not sure whether the line endings matter, but that's why I put up both a Mac version and a Unix version. (There's a Radio UserLand server bug that prevents me from just calling them *.lhs -- you'll want to rename the file.)
3:50:39 PM   comment/     

NeXT is dead. Long live Mac OS X

Jon Udell notes in this excellent piece about rich text, the "universal canvas", and Mozilla:

Writing email was something everybody did, but writing email that's rich with images, links, tables, vector images, and equations -- in other words, writing email on a universal canvas -- wasn't something people expected to be able to do at all, never mind easily and routinely.
My one quibble about the piece is about NeXT Software: their customers (and their chairman) did expect to do this easily and routinely. (Of course, it doesn't really become effective until those capabilities reach critical mass. Another example of sjobs being just a bit ahead of his time.)
2:49:17 PM   comment/     


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