Neil Mitchell's Blog (Haskell etc)

Since most people are doing a year summary, I thought I should do one. Then I remembered that I can barely remember what I did yesterday (fo...

About 2 months ago Frederik Eaton posted "HsMan" to the ghc list, a program that with one command line could look up the documenta...

I'm slowly working through the things I want for Hoogle 4, and its coming along quite nicely. A quick tour of the features I've alre...

I've just got back to my home, and am doing darcs pull's against all the repo's around to get my work up to date. I noticed Yhc ...

A lot of posts on the mailing list at the moment seem to be about how we can promote Haskell to a greater audience. The idea of this post is...

I have been thinking Compilery thoughts for a while now, so I thought I'd jot them down. I am starting the "bhc" project here ...

In the past few days I've been working on a generalised version of Haskell, designed for program optimisation and transformation. I'...

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...