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Some time around the GHC 6.6.1 era, I added pty support to the standard Haskell unix package. It's very basic in form, and I've been sitting for a long time on another patch to round it out.

The basic pty interface is as follows:

openPseudoTerminal :: IO (Fd, Fd)

This gives you back two file descriptors: the first [...]

Ketil Malde and I submitted this paper to PADL 09. Updated 2008-10-13: the paper was accepted!
Here is the PDF copy.
And for the impatient, here is the abstract.

Analysis of biological data often involves large data sets and computationally expensive algorithms. Databases of biological data continue to grow, leading to an increasing demand for improved algorithms and [...]

I’ve posted my slides from tomorrow morning’s Haskell tutorial on Slideshare. (There’s a downloadable PDF version, too, if you find that an easier format to deal with.)
I’ve also posted a Mercurial repository of the slide source code, in case anyone would like to cannibalise the slides for their own purposes. Enjoy!

Don Stewart, Duncan Coutts and Simon Marlow ended the Haskell Symposium yesterday with a wonderful session about the future of Haskell.
Don and Duncan began with an acknowledgement of the importance of libraries to the health and future of the Haskell language community. A long-standing need for a central source of good libraries was met about [...]

I’m in Victoria, BC this week, at ICFP. I’ve been writing a few notes about the talks that have been taking place in my Twitter stream. Also Twittering from the conference is Don Stewart.
The Haskell symposium has gotten off to a great start, with very good talks that have blended practicality and theory.
Since CUFP (Commercial [...]