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Re: The New Haskell Homepage

#31

I dislike this. Where is the 'call for me to do something'? Why are there blurred people on an escalator(?). Don't make me pick between concise and reliable. I'm more than willing to distill your messaging if it would help in any way. If only as an alternative.

> Don't make me pick between concise and reliable.

You missed the tongue-in-cheek, there. "Concise and Reliable: Pick Two."

And those people are in a lecture hall. Under "Open-source community effort."

Re: The New Haskell Homepage

#33

Please note this homepage is NOT final and it's going to see revisions before we push it out to the actual website, including many tweaks to the content and probably some styling tweaks too. There are a lot of other things we still need to do as well, like ensure all redirects and subpages work properly. Source: I'm one of the Haskell.org administrators, and we pushed this out only today.

Thank you, this is the best present ever :)

Re: The New Haskell Homepage

#36
I feel like the sieve is a poor example, since it's not actually the same algorithm as a sieve, and has a worse running time. It is possible to write a very nice lazy infinite sieve.

See O’Neill's "The Genuine Sieve of Eratosthenes" paper for details.

http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~oneill/papers/Sieve-JFP.pdf

Re: The New Haskell Homepage

#37
Excellent! This is a big improvement. There seem to be some bugs with the "try it now" terminal, but it was easy enough that I actually gave Haskell a try after many years. It's got me interested enough to actually install it and start hacking away!

Re: The New Haskell Homepage

#38
Great timing, as I've just started to explore Haskell in the last few days.

First, I really like the style of the new site. My only gripe is that the section with the lecture hall photo and the videos right below it don't seem like an efficient use of prime real estate (and there is no context for the videos, I have no idea what they are or why I would want to watch it. The thumbnails suggest that I'd be clicking on an hour long lecture.). As a new user, I'd rather see the features in this space.

Re: The New Haskell Homepage

#39
post #25

Another suggestion would be more examples under the clear concise code bit--possibly in a carousel. Additionally, all examples could be loaded into the "Try It" section, so I could type `take 4 primes` or something. Instead, in my attempt to load the primes function.. I was met with this bit. λ let sieve (p:xs) = p : sieve [x | x

I got that too. I was surprised to realize that I felt ready to completely give up on the language after seeing only that message.

Re: The New Haskell Homepage

#40
post #8

"Try haskell expression here" + lessons is very nice. Just a little nitpick: λ map (+1) [1..5] can't find file: Imports.hs λ map (+ 1) [1..5] [2,3,4,5,6]:: (Enum b, Num b) => [b] though the first expression is what suggested in lesson 4. Edit: looks like some random bug.

yep, you are not the only one that had that problem

λ foldr (:) [] [1,2,3]

:: Num a => [a]

λ foldr (:) [] [1,2,3]

[1,2,3] :: Num a => [a]

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