Posted in haskell, open source on May 23rd, 2007 1 Comment »
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 details, and follow our progress, [...]
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 package, too. [...]
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.
Bear in mind as you [...]
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 nice embedded language for
building filters and controlling [...]