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ANN: wxHaskell 0.10.3
by Jeremy O'Donoghue 01 Apr '08

01 Apr '08

The wxHaskell development team is pleased to announce the release of wxHaskell 0.10.3, a Haskell binding for the wxWidgets GUI library. The Haskell support is built on a reasonably complete C language binding, which could be used as the basis for wxWidgets support on other languages/platforms which do not have easy mechanisms for linking with C++ code. The feature set is the same as wxHaskell 0.10.3 rc1 and rc2, with a number of additional bugfixes. This is the first full release since June 2005, and is the result of a great deal of work by a new team of contributors. Highlights of 0.10.3 include: - Support for Unicode builds of wxWidgets - Support for additional widgets including calendar, toolbar divider, styled text control (wxScintilla), media control - Support for clipboard, drag and drop - Support for 64bit (Linux) targets - Support for wxWidgets 2.6.x (support for wxWidgets 2.4.2 if you compile from source). wxWidgets 2.8 is not yet supported - Support for building with GHC 6.6.x and 6.8.x - Parts of wxHaskell are now built with Cabal - New test cases - Removed support GHC version < 6.4 - Profiling support - Smaller generated binary sizes (using --split-objs) Binary packages are available from the wxHaskell download site at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=73133, for the following platforms: - Debian - Windows - OS X (Intel and PPC platforms) - Source code .tar.gz and .zip - Documentation (cross-platform) The wxHaskell libraries (wxcore and wx) are also available from Hackage (http://hackage.haskell.org) About wxHaskell --------------- wxHaskell is a Haskell binding to the wxWidgets GUI library for recent versions of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler. It provides a native look and feel on Windows, OS X and Linux, and a medium level programming interface. The main project page for wxHaskell is at http://wxhaskell.sourceforge.net. The latest source code for wxHaskell can always be obtained from http://darcs.haskell.org/wxhaskell. There are developer (wxhaskell-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net and user (wxhaskell-users(a)lists.sourceforge.net) mailing lists, and a wiki page at http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/WxHaskell which can provide more information to those interested. wxHaskell was originally created by Daan Leijen. The contributors to this new release include: - Eric Kow - shelarcy - Arie Middelkoop - Mads Lindstroem - Jeremy O'Donoghue - Lennart Augustson The C language binding for wxHaskell was derived from an original C language binding created for the Eiffel programming language by the ELJ project (http://elj.sourceforge.net) -- Jeremy O'Donoghue jeremy.odonoghue(a)gmail.com

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Commercial Users of Functional Programming Workshop
by Simon Peyton-Jones 01 Apr '08

01 Apr '08

Commercial Users of Functional Programming Workshop (CUFP) 2008 26 September 2008, Victoria, British Columbia ============== CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS ====================== Presentation proposals due 2 June 2008 http://cufp.functionalprogramming.com Functional Programming As a Means, Not an End Sponsored by SIGPLAN Co-located with ICFP 2008 _________________________________________________________________ Functional languages have been under academic development for over 25 years, and remain fertile ground for programming language research. Recently, however, developers in industrial, governmental, and open source projects have begun to use functional programming successfully in practical applications. In these settings, functional programming has often provided dramatic leverage, including whole new ways of thinking about the original problem. The goal of the CUFP workshop is to act as a voice for these users of functional programming. The workshop supports the increasing viability of functional programming in the commercial, governmental, and open-source space by providing a forum for professionals to share their experiences and ideas, whether those ideas are related to business, management, or engineering. The workshop is also designed to enable the formation and reinforcement of relationships that further the commercial use of functional programming. Speaking at CUFP If you use functional programming as a means, rather than as an end, we invite you to offer to give a talk at the workshop. Alternatively, if you know someone who would give a good talk, please nominate them! Talks are typically 30-45 minutes long, but can be shorter. They aim to inform participants about how functional programming played out in real-world applications, focusing especially on the re-usable lessons learned, or insights gained. Your talk does not need to be highly technical; for this audience, reflections on the commercial, management, or software engineering aspects are, if anything, more important. You do not need to submit a paper! If you are interested in offering a talk, or nominating someone to do so, send an e-mail to jim (dot) d (dot) grundy (at) intel (dot) com or simonpj (at) microsoft (dot) com by 2 June 2008 with a short description of what you'd like to talk about or what you think your nominee should give a talk about. Such descriptions should be about one page long. Program Plans CUFP 2008 will last a full day and feature an invited presentation from Michael Hopcroft, the product unit manager for the forthcoming release of Microsoft Visual Studio F#. Additionally, the program will include a mix of presentations and discussion sessions. Topics will range over a wide area, including: * Case studies of successful and unsuccessful uses of functional programming; * Business opportunities and risks from using functional languages; * Enablers for functional language use in a commercial setting; * Barriers to the adoption of functional languages, and * Mitigation strategies for overcoming limitations of functional programming. There will be no published proceedings, as the meeting is intended to be more a discussion forum than a technical interchange. Program Committee * Lennart Augustsson <lennart (dot) augustsson (at) gmail (dot) com> * Matthias Blume <blume (at) tti-c (dot) org> * Adam Granicz <granicz (dot) adam (at) intellifactory (dot) com> * Jim Grundy (co-chair) <jim (dot) d (dot) grundy (at) intel (dot) com> * John Lalonde <lalonde (at) abstrax (dot) com> * Andy Martin <akmartin (at) us (dot) ibm (dot) com> * Yaron Minsky <yminsky (at) janestcapital (dot) com> * Simon Peyton Jones (co-chair) <simonpj (at) microsoft (dot) com> * Ulf Wiger <ulf (dot) wiger (at) ericsson (dot) com> This will be the fifth CUFP, for more information - including reports from attendees of previous events - see the workshop web site: http://cufp.functionalprogramming.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CUFP" group. To post to this group, send email to cufp(a)googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cufp-unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cufp?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

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