Posted in haskell on April 23rd, 2007 4 Comments »
I don’t intend for this blog to become a dumping ground for code
snippets, but sometimes the temptation is too strong. Here’s a simple but
fast function for computing a factorial, using the binary splitting
algorithm from this
page.
factorial :: Integral a => a -> a
factorial n = split n 0
where split a b = let d = [...]
Posted in haskell on April 16th, 2007 2 Comments »
Simon Peyton Jones will be giving two Haskell-related talks at OSCON in July! As far as I know, this will be the first time that Haskell gets an airing at a general-interest conference. Simon is a fantastic speaker, so if you were going to OSCON anyway, you absolutely should not miss his talks.
One of Simon’s [...]
Posted in haskell on April 12th, 2007 1 Comment »
This year, the Haskell.org community has
had nine projects funded by Google, out of 64 student applications.
We had mentoring capacity for over 20 projects, so the final number
was decided by Google, not by our ability to deal with them.
Congratulations to those who were accepted! And to those who were
not, take heart; the competition was tight.
Most [...]
Posted in linux on April 11th, 2007 2 Comments »
I recently bought a Thinkpad X60 that came with Windows preinstalled.
I never actually use Windows, but it’s convenient to have around for
the occasional BIOS update.
My Linux distribution of choice has long been
Fedora. Unfortunately, unlike other
modern Linux distros, Fedora doesn’t provide a simple graphical means
to shrink an NTFS partition in its installer.
Since the X60 doesn’t [...]