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A small matter of illegal characters

Posted in haskell

GHC 7 I/O manager status update

Posted in haskell

text 0.10.0.0 is here

Posted in haskell, open source, Uncategorized

How to migrate from darcs to Mercurial or git

Posted in haskell, mercurial, open source

A brief tale of faster equality

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Unicode text performance improvements

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Like a coding challenge? Check out Code Quarterly

Peter Seibel (the man behind Practical Common Lisp) is launching a new publication, Code Quarterly, which looks intriguing to me. He’s hoping to run a coding challenge in each issue, and I know this is the sort of fun dear
Posted in software

Dual bitbucket/github citizenship

One of the particularly nice things about working with a distributed revision control tool these days is that I can sidestep the choice of winning tool. Thanks to Scott Chacon and Augie Fackler’s excellent hg-git extension, I can use Mercurial
Posted in open source, scm

Why I don’t use darcs any more (much)

Over the past couple of years, since David Roundy handed over control of the darcs revision control system to a talented team of developers, it has come a long way in stability and performance.I began using darcs essentially out of
Posted in open source

A tiny example of clean Unicode handling in Haskell

Ersin Er wrote a brief blog post about handling the Turkish language in Haskell. Because Turkish uses a character set that mostly looks familiar to Westerners, it is notorious for its ability to trip up the unwary programmer (see examples
Posted in haskell, open source