Neil Mitchell's Blog (Haskell etc)

Recently on the Haskell mailing list there has been some discussions of which packages Hoogle searches by default. One person remarked that ...

Haskell has some ugly corners - not many, but a few. One that many people consider exceptionally ugly is the monomorphism restriction. In th...

Normally I give blog posts detailing the fun, interesting or advanced stuff I do with Haskell. But that isn't a real representation of m...

Kurt Schelfthout has just released FsCheck 0.4 , a tool similar to QuickCheck but for F#. While working at my internship for Credit Suisse ...

In my last post on F# I mentioned that do mapM f xs; return 1 caused a space leak, and that the programmer should have written mapM_ . I al...

I've recently started a full-time job at Standard Chartered . Before that I was doing an internship with Credit Suisse , where I spent a...

Update: See http://neilmitchell.blogspot.com/2011/12/enabling-reply-to-all-in-outlook.html for an updated version of this functionality. S...

It's been a little while since I last posted. I've recently got back from ICFP 2008 , and quite a few people asked me what I was doi...

As promised, here is a guide on deploying Hoogle on a web server. Before doing so, you need to generate the necessary Hoogle databases, as d...

Brief Annoucement: A new release of the Hoogle command line is out, including bug fixes and additional features. Upgrading is recommended....

I've now finished my Hoogle Summer of Code work, though I still intend to continue working on Hoogle when I get the chance. Before the c...

This week I've been trying to get Hoogle 4 to the point where it can replace Hoogle 3. This is the final official week of Google Summer ...

This week I've been releasing lots. Hoogle 4 is finally starting to come together, and should be a worthy replacement for Hoogle 3 very ...

Since releasing a command line version of Hoogle 4 yesterday, I've had some useful feedback from a number of people. As a result, I hav...

I am pleased to announce Hoogle 4.0, available on Hackage . A couple of things to note: This is a release of the command-line version only. ...

This week I've been in Bristol, and am just about to head off to the Harbour Festival . Next week I'm heading off to AngloHaskell 20...

I'm off camping for the next weekend in a couple of hours, so this is my early weekly summary. From next week, for a week and a half, I...

This week I've been travelling quite a bit, and rather busy with other things. Hopefully next week I'll be able to focus more time o...

This week I've continued to improve the type searching, and generated Hoogle databases for the core libraries. I'm away from a compu...

This week I've been tackling type searching. I have just (in the last few minutes) got my first type search to work. At the moment type ...