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07 May 2007

Haskell Update

Computerisms

The good news is I think I grok monads. They make sense now. What was holding me back for so long was the syntactic sugar that masked what they were actually doing. It supplied an aura of magic which was really hard to cut through. Once I saw how the monad value was passed transparently in a sequence in a do construct it clicked.

The bad news is I still can’t get ghc for freebsd on amd64. I found some mailing list posts from mid/end of April on the topic. It looks like work is being done. It feels like it will be done quickly. But I hope I still have ambition to work in Haskell by the time that rolls around. It feels very much like a neat and powerful language with a lot of personality.

But I can actually do things in Python.

9:19 pm Jay

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One Response to “Haskell Update”

  1. Brendan Taylor on August 29th, 2007 at 7:58 am

    Hey Edmontonian Haskell buddy!

    Was there some documentation in particular that helped? I’m trying to get the concept through my own head, so far unsuccessfully.

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