Posted in haskell, open source on May 23rd, 2007 3 Comments »
I’ve been sitting on this for a while, so I’m very excited to announce that Don Stewart, John Goerzen and I are collaborating on an upcoming book for O’Reilly, the working title of which is “Real-World Haskell”. Better yet, O’Reilly has agreed to publish the title under a Creative Commons license! You can find more [...]
Posted in haskell, linux on May 14th, 2007 No Comments »
With Jens Petersen’s blessing, I’ve packaged GHC 6.6.1 for Fedora Extras. If you use FC6, it’s available via yum as of a few days ago. It will be a part of Fedora 7 as soon as that comes out, too. The upgrade to 6.6.1 necessitated a bump of the release number of the Fedora Gtk2Hs [...]
Posted in haskell on May 14th, 2007 11 Comments »
A few weeks ago, I spent a little time porting Peter Norvig’s Python code from his article How to Write a Spelling Corrector to Haskell. It’s a concise vehicle for a few Haskelly topics that don’t get much airing in front of a general audience: what idiomatic Haskell looks like, and the dreaded space leak. [...]
I just released version 0.1 of FileManip, a Haskell library I put together to make it easier to futz about with files in the filesystem. There are a few different components to the package. The Find module lets you search the filesystem for files, after the manner of the Unix find program. It provides a [...]
