[wuug-list] [wuug-forum] ezod: WUUG Meeting Schedule Change

[Matt Draisey]

On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 20:30 -0800, Windsor UNIX Users Group wrote:
> Author: ezod
> Username: ezod (76-10-132-164.dsl.teksavvy.com)
> Subject: WUUG Meeting Schedule Change
> Forum: WUUG Talk
> Link: http://www.wuug.org/read.php?10,104,104#msg-104
> Approved: Yes
> 
> It seems more people are able to make Wednesday meetings than the current Tuesday. I'll bring this up with everyone at the meeting tomorrow (for whom Tuesday obviously works), but what does everyone else think about moving it to the first Wednesday of the month starting in April?
> 
> Who knows, we might have a better place by then too. :)
> 
Sorry to have missed last Tuesday.  The weather kept me away.  Starting
in June I shall be busy every Wednesday.  Later in the summer I might be
busy on Tuesdays also so It might be the next two meetings will have to
hold me until fall.

I didn't get to tell everyone about my progress in programming in
haskell.  There wasn't much to tell as my progress is not good.  I keep
finding new ways to fight the type system and lose each time.  Standard
haskell 98 is very restrictive about types and so I have been trying to
use some of the language extensions in the Glasgow Haskell Compiler.
The lack of any good overview means I have been learning by error
message.  Frustrating!

My latest discovery is the impossibility of doing dynamic casts even
when using GHC's object-oriented-like existential types.  Out goes
another few days of work.  It seems you cannot create truly generic
container types in Haskell.  The workaround is to define a new data type
which is a union of a whole big pile of other types.  Ugly!

It isn't like Python where you can learn the language on Friday and be
productive by Monday.  I'm still struggling.  One feels there is the
potential of writing elegant code but I am taking inordinate amount of
time to write horribly kludgy stuff.

Matt