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Archive for February, 2009

Finally! Fast Unicode support for Haskell

Posted in climbing on February 27th, 2009 7 Comments »

On behalf of the Data.Text team, I am delighted to announce the release of preview versions of two new packages: text 0.1 Fast, packed Unicode text support, using a modern stream fusion framework. text-icu 0.1 Augments the text package with comprehensive character set conversion support and normalization (and soon more), via bindings to the ICU [...]

Speaking at Bay Area Erlang Factory in April

Posted in haskell on February 22nd, 2009 2 Comments »

My friends at Erlang Training and Consulting are running an organising an event in Palo Alto at the end of April: Erlang Factory. If you’re interested in the ferment of ideas and activity around functional programming, this promises to be an exciting occasion. To me, one of the great attractions of the functional programming world [...]