Neil Mitchell's Blog (Haskell etc)

I've given this message and idea to a few people already, via email and IRC, so I thought maybe I should share it slightly wider and get...

I've been working on Dr Haskell for a little bit, and its now quite a bit cleverer. For those who don't know, Dr Haskell tries to m...

Often Haskell programmers end up with "error, head []" - a totally useless error message! Because in developing Catch I have 10,0...

I just released System.FilePath , a library for manipulating FilePath's on both Windows and Posix. The problem with a library like this ...

I just got an email: "I've got hat-observe working on my code, which makes me very happy." This is a happy Hat user, who is ...

I have been working on a back end to my analysis framework Catch for a while, I do lots of transformations as part of Catch, some of which ...

I tried out DriFT recently, and was most impressed, it has the feel of a program that hasn't had much love recently, but thats ok, its ...

There is now a hoogle mailing list: http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/hoogle So instead of emailing me individually, or talking to me ...

I just checked the Hoogle logs, and found a stagering 67,112 searches have been performed. 18495 of these searches were for different terms,...

For the last few days I've been rewritting the parsing in Hoogle to use parsec. As an end result, the parser is a lot more powerful, and...

Today I've been trying to get into cabal, since it seems a pretty cool thing, and it looks like the way forward. As I've been doing ...

After spending about the last 3 months replying to most people's Hoogle comments with "that will be fixed in Hoogle 4", its ab...

I've been doing some work on Hoogle 4 over the last week while I've been away from a computer. Lots of cool new ideas, some paper co...

For the last couple of days I've been trying to get Hat working on Windows. I now have over half the tools working on Windows, and have...

Often a more experienced Haskell user can point out some clever trick in some Haskell code that a beginner may not know about, for example: ...

I have been making some improvements to Hoogle - nothing to do with the actual searching engine, but lots of tweaks to the page layout. It...

I have decided to start the Haskell on Windows software repository, its located here: http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~ndm/projects/windows.p...

One useful trick I've found when manipulating data structures is the Play class, which I created to "play" with various data s...

At the moment I am working on a System.FilePath module combining Lemmih 's one from cabal, and the one from Yhc. In order to do this I ...

A release of WinHugs has just gone out: http://cvs.haskell.org/Hugs/pages/downloading-May2006.htm This is the first released final Haskell s...