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Linux-Announce Digest #830
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Linux-Announce Digest #830, Volume #3 Sun, 30 Jul 00 08:13:04 EDT
Contents:
WWW: Welcome to Pascal Central ("Bill M. Catambay")
WWW: KDE 2.0, Transmeta, devfs... New Stories on Linux-Mag.com (Robert McMillan)
The Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 4.08 (Julian Seward)
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From: "Bill M. Catambay" <bill.m.catambay@NOSPAMlmco.com.invalid>
Subject: WWW: Welcome to Pascal Central
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 12:04:48 GMT
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To all Pascal programmers on Linux:
The following is a summary of the current contents available at Pascal
Central. For any of you who may not know about Pascal Central, Pascal
Central provides the pascal community one place to obtain Pascal
technical information, Pascal source code, and Pascal-related internet
links.
The home page is at http://pascal-central.com.
Pascal Central is broken up into the following sections:
FEATURED ARTICLES: These are the latest articles contributed to Pascal
Central. See the end of this note for a summary of these articles.
FORUMS & LINKS: This pages provides information on Pascal forums (such
as the MacPascal mailing list, and the Pascal newsgroups), and several
links to Pascal related web sites (for PC and Mac). To join the
MacPascal mailing list, go to
http://www.stairways.com/mailinglists/macpascal.html.
PASCAL TOOLS: This page is intended to be a one-stop shopping place for
obtaining free tools to help you program in Pascal.
PASCAL ADVOCACY: This page features Pascal announcements, and provides
a list of Apple contacts for advocating support of Pascal on the
Macintosh.
PASCAL BOOKS: A list of Pascal related programming books, sorted by
year. All include links to Amazon.com reviews and availability.
PASCAL REFERENCES: A collection of articles which are related to
miscellaneous Pascal topics, such as Pascal Standards, different
compilers, and Apple's new Universal Headers.
PASCALWARE: Freeware and Shareware applications written in Pascal.
THE ARCHIVE: The complete archive of articles submitted to Pascal
Central, in order of most recent first.
THE FAVORITES: Statistics, by month, on frequency of visits at Pascal
Central. Check out which pages are the favorites.
SOURCE CODE: Three different pages dedicated to source code, including
NOTHING BUT MACINTOSH SOURCE CODE, a list of links to a variety of
source code pages, MERLIN'S CAVERN, a collection of complete Pascal
source code packages, including running applications, all for the Mac,
and MORGANA'S CAVERN, a collection of complete Pascal source code
packages, including running applications, all for Windows.
Cheers,
Bill
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Pascal Central -> http://pascal-central.com
Morgana's Revenge -> http://www.excaliburworld.com/morgana
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From: Robert McMillan <bob@linux-mag.com>
Subject: WWW: KDE 2.0, Transmeta, devfs... New Stories on Linux-Mag.com
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 12:06:06 GMT
Reply-To: bob@linux-mag.com
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Hey there,
Here's a list of some new stories on linux-mag.com.
The August issue of Linux Magazine is on
newsstands everywhere. This
month's issue features an exclusive
interview with Michael Dell and a
great story explaining how to build
dynamic websites with Apache, MySQL,
and PHP.
The complete August table of contents is
online at:
<http://www.linux-mag.com/2000-08/toc.html>
When you visit our Website, you can also
read these stories we've just
posted:
MP3s and Open Source: Should BMG and EMI
be taking a cue from water
companies like Naya and Aquafina?
<http://www.linux-mag.com/online/compton_c06_01.html>
And speaking of MP3s. If you want to know
how to get rocking and rolling
with them on Linux, we have a story on
that too.
<http://www.linux-mag.com/cgi-bin/r?m=n5&u=05/desktop_01.html>
What is Transmeta doing with Linux Torvalds?
<http://www.linux-mag.com/cgi-bin/r?m=n5&u=05/transmeta_01.html>
A look at KDE 2.0.
<http://www.linux-mag.com/cgi-bin/r?m=n5&u=05/kde2_01.html >
Cliff Miller's TurboLinux Conquered Asia.
Next: North America.
<http://www.linux-mag.com/cgi-bin/r?m=n5&u=05/miller_01.html>
Power your network with Linux.
<http://www.linux-mag.com/cgi-bin/r?m=n5&u=05/networking_01.htm>
DEPARTMENTS
Newbies, by Bill McCarty
Linux Printing Basics
<http://www.linux-mag.com/cgi-bin/r?m=n5&u=05/newbies_01.html>
In the Trenches, by Frank LaMonica
Without Taxes, Who Builds the
Roads?
<http://www.linux-mag.com/cgi-bin/r?m=n5&u=05/trench_01.html>
Guru Guidance, by AEleen Frisch
Beyond Filesystem Basics
<http://www.linux-mag.com/cgi-bin/r?m=n5&u=05/guru_01.html>
Gearheads Only, by Alessandro Rubini
A Look at devfs
<http://www.linux-mag.com/cgi-bin/r?m=n5&u=05/gear_01.html>
Perl Of Wisdom, by Randal L. Schwartz
Programming with Perl Objects
<http://www.linux-mag.com/cgi-bin/r?m=n5&u=05/perl_01.html>
Tech Support, by Gaylen Brown
Ethernet cards, image editors, rebooting
<http://www.linux-mag.com/cgi-bin/r?m=n5&u=05/tech_support_01.html>
PRODUCT REVIEWS
Caldera's OpenLinux eDesktop
<http://www.linux-mag.com/cgi-bin/r?m=n5&u=05/pr_edesk_01.html>
Mandrake 7.0
<http://www.linux-mag.com/cgi-bin/r?m=n5&u=05/pr_mandrake_01.html>
Corel WordPerfect Office 2000
<http://www.linux-mag.com/cgi-bin/r?m=n5&u=05/pr_wpoffice_01.html>
Concise Guide to XFree86
<http://www.linux-mag.com/cgi-bin/r?m=n5&u=05/pr_xfree86_01.html
>
Ht://Dig 3.1.4: Your Web Gopher
<http://www.linux-mag.com/cgi-bin/r?m=n5&u=05/pr_htdig_01.html
>
VXA-1 Tape Drive: Swift, Silent Backups
<http://www.linux-mag.com/cgi-bin/r?m=n5&u=05/pr_vxa1_01.html
>
Drive Image Pro 3.01
<http://www.linux-mag.com/cgi-bin/r?m=n5&u=05/pr_driveimage_01.html>
Regards,
Robert McMillan
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From: Julian Seward <Julian_Seward@muraroa.demon.co.uk>
Subject: The Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 4.08
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 12:07:07 GMT
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The Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 4.08
==============================================
We are pleased to announce a new release of the Glasgow Haskell
Compiler (GHC), version 4.08. The source distribution is freely
available via the World-Wide Web and through anon. FTP, under a
BSD-style license. See below for download details. Pre-built
packages for Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and Win32 are also available.
Haskell is "the" standard lazy functional programming language; the
current language version is Haskell 98, agreed in December 1998.
GHC is a state-of-the-art optimising compiler for Haskell, generating
good code for a variety of platforms. The distribution includes space
and time profiling facilities, a large collection of libraries, and
support for various language extensions, including concurrency, exceptions,
and foreign language interfaces (C, C++, whatever).
A wide variety of Haskell related resources (tutorials, libraries,
specifications, documentation, compilers, interpreters, references,
contact information, links to research groups, bindings to popular
libraries such as GTK+ and OpenGL) are available from the Haskell
home page at
http://www.haskell.org/
GHC's Web page lives at
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
+ What's new
=============
This should be a stable release. There have been many enhancements
since 4.06, and an impressive number of bug-fixes.
There are the following changes
- New profiling subsystem, based on cost-centre stacks.
- Working x86 native code generator: now it works properly, runs
about twice as fast as compiling via C, and is on a par for
run-time speed (except in FP-intensive programs).
- Implicit parameters (i.e. dynamic scoping without the pain).
- DEPRECATED pragma for marking obsolescent interfaces.
- In the wake of hslibs, a new package system for
libraries. -package should now be used instead of -syslib.
- Result type signatures work.
- Many tiresome long-standing bugs and problems (e.g. the trace
problem) have been fixed.
- Many error messages have been made more helpful and/or
accurate.
For full details see the release notes:
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/4.08/users_guide/release-4-08.html
+ Mailing lists
================
We run mailing lists for GHC users and bug reports; to subscribe, send
mail to majordomo@haskell.org; the msg body should be:
subscribe glasgow-haskell-{users,bugs} Your Name <you@where.soever>
or
subscribe cvs-ghc Your Name <you@where.soever>
Please send bug reports about GHC to glasgow-haskell-bugs@haskell.org;
GHC users hang out on glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org. Bleeding
edge CVS users party on cvs-ghc@haskell.org.
+ On-line GHC-related resources
================================
Relevant URLs on the World-Wide Web:
GHC home page http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
Haskell home page http://www.haskell.org/
comp.lang.functional FAQ http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/faq.html
+ How to get it
================
The easy way is to go to the WWW page, which should be
self-explanatory:
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
Once you have the distribution, please follow the pointers in the
README file to find all of the documentation about this release. NB:
preserve modification times when un-tarring the files (no `m' option
for tar, please)!
+ System requirements
======================
To compile the sources, you need a machine with 32+MB memory, GNU C
(`gcc'), `perl' plus a version of GHC installed (3.02 at least). This
release is known to work on the following platforms:
* i386-unknown-{linux,freebsd,netbsd,cygwin32,mingw32}
* sparc-sun-solaris2
* hppa1.1-hp-hpux{9,10}
Ports to the following platforms should be relatively easy (for a
wunderhacker), but haven't been tested due to lack of time/hardware:
* i386-unknown-solaris2
* alpha-dec-osf{2,3}
* mips-sgi-irix{5,6}
* {rs6000,powerpc}-ibm-aix
The builder's guide included in distribution gives a complete
run-down of what ports work; an on-line version can be found at
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/4.08/building/building-guide.html
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