Haskell is a pure functional language that's rising in popularity
Type Anxiety (2011-02-19)
As I mentioned in a previous post, I’ve been reworking some of my sound change applier to try to unify the 3 different ASTs which evolved as I developed the current code base. And in the process, I’ve been experiencing a measure of what I’m going to ...
moreIntsets Are Faster Than Lists (2011-01-27)
I’m currently thinking about tidying up some of the data structures in my sound change applier. Basically, there are three major data structures currently:
- A type to contain the results of the initial surface parse
- A type to contain the AST after some simplification and transformations into more efficient ...
Fun With Haskell (2010-10-04)
I thought I should follow up on my previous posts, since in at least two previous posts I’ve criticised aspects of the Haskell experience. In general, I point out ways things can be improved or are sub-optimal a lot more than I praise them, but I don’t want ...
moreIs Haskell Fast? (2010-04-02)
Recently, I’ve been experimenting with the functional programming language Haskell. It seems to be very popular at the moment, and is often recommended to programmers as a language to expose them to new ideas. And I do find some of its features interesting, but that’s a topic for ...
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