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Re: Command Line Option Conventions

2010-03-06 Thread John D. Earle
One of the things I was thinking about was looking at how the Tcl scripting language and the Windows PowerShell languages do it in addition to the usual Unix shells. The Windows PowerShell naming conventions seem particularly well thought out. I do not like the language as a whole due to what I

Command Line Option Conventions

2010-03-06 Thread John D. Earle
This is a request for information concerning command line option conventions that are used among the various operating systems. I intend to create a domain specific language using quasi-quotation in Haskell that likely should use the same command line option conventions that most people are fami

Re: Gut Build System

2010-03-06 Thread John D. Earle
Neil, I hope I can count on your continued support. Your comments are hoping me refine my thinking. What I am attempting to do is ambitious and so I have my work cut out for me. Do I really need quasi-quotes? In a sense I will and in another I won't. That is the best way to describe it. Ther

Re: Gut Build System

2010-03-06 Thread John D. Earle
Dear Neil, Neil: For GHC in particular, they currently have a build system that works, what's the benefit of changing the build system? John: To make it even better. As I pointed out in my GHC ticket system feature request ticket (http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3912) the build sys

Re: Gut Build System

2010-03-06 Thread John D. Earle
I'm in the process of preparing a rather long letter. In short my response is "Fair enough. I'll take that as a challenge." This letter is a meta-discussion. I'm talking about what I'm talking about. I thought to flush out some of my thoughts and respond to objections which I more than happy to

Re: E-Mail Attachments In E-Mails Sent to the Mailing List

2010-03-06 Thread Thomas Schilling
Create a blog, put it up there, then post a link to the blog on the mailing list. I don't think the GHC development list is best for this kind of discussion, though. I think haskell-c...@haskell.org is much better for discussing your ideas. The GHC team already expressed their opinion: They wil

Re: Gut Build System

2010-03-06 Thread Simon Marlow
On 05/03/10 19:28, John D. Earle wrote: My ticket was just closed with a won't fix resolution. The comment was "I think the first step would be to create a build system tool, and then we can look at whether it makes sense to use it for GHC." On the face of it seems some what logical. It is certai

E-Mail Attachments In E-Mails Sent to the Mailing List

2010-03-06 Thread John D. Earle
I am wondering if sending an e-mail attachment is acceptable or problematic in an e-mail sent to a Haskell mailing list. I see that some people do this. I would prefer to post content using TeX that is converted to PDF. I doubt anyone will want to see a dvi or ps file which are common TeX output

Re: Gut Build System

2010-03-06 Thread Neil Mitchell
>>> http://chadaustin.me/2010/03/your-version-control-and-build-systems-dont-scale-introducing-ibb/ >> >> This link is crazy. He's abusing big O notation, complaining about >> constant factors (Python starting up) then suggesting he needs to >> reduce the algorithmic complexity. He also forgets to

Re: Gut Build System

2010-03-06 Thread Thomas Schilling
On 6 March 2010 07:35, Neil Mitchell wrote: > >> http://chadaustin.me/2010/03/your-version-control-and-build-systems-dont-scale-introducing-ibb/ > > This link is crazy. He's abusing big O notation, complaining about > constant factors (Python starting up) then suggesting he needs to > reduce the a