On 05/24/2010 09:39 AM, Heinrich Apfelmus wrote:
Daniel Mlot wrote:
I took a bit of a break from the book over this week in order to give time to my ideas to get clearer. By the way, I just reduced my Haskell naivety a bit by writing an useful-ish standalone "real world" program, which works fine other than for being very memory hungry (still, the code is *so* much nicer to work with than the corresponding procedural implementations that I would gladly concede it a couple hundred megabytes to play with). Anyway...
Feel free to ask on the #haskell IRC channel or the beginners@haskell.org mailing list for advice on your memory woes; there's always someone around you can help.
I went to the IRC yesterday. People were quite helpful there but unfortunately we couldn't make a breakthrough before I had to call it a day and have some sleep. On the other hand, all the failed attempts made me able to phrase my issues in a clearer way, so that I can make a comprehensible post in the mailing list.
I was thinking about putting both the source for the cheat sheet and the Haskell program that translates it on the talk page, and instruct people to make changes there. Not ideal, but should work.
This gave me a very cool idea, which is explained in details here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#A_bot_for_me... (I made this post to ask for technical feedback on the MediaWiki side of the things. Also, I mentioned Python, but of course the plan would be interfacing the Haskell parser to the Python MediaWiki API.) Regards, Daniel Mlot