This is my suggestion about what needs to go into the Haskell Platform. Consider the following extremely simply program: s = "λ" main = do writeFile "test.txt" s s2 <- readFile "test.txt" print (s == s2) No prizes for guessing that the output of this program is not "True". It highlights an essential ...

There has been lots of interesting discussion about dynamic languages and the GPL, but much of it seems to miss the main point: with many dynamic languages, the terms of the GPL are an irrelevance. In the comments on the above page, Peter Gerdes seems to be one of the few who does get this: @Morty Yidel ...

What do you do when you are dealing with what seems like a bizarre compiler bug, with the compiler being nothing less than GHC? First, pinch yourself — check; then try again, 3 times to be sure — check; clear out 'dist/' and any temporary build files — check; sleep on it — check. And it's still happening. ...

I've blogged before about using trac as a personal wiki , and that has been working very well for me. But of course the day would was bound to come when using the text box in a web browser was just too painful. I want to use emacs to edit the text, and do so painlessly. Of course, I should have realised ...

A few weeks ago I received a free copy of Django 1.0 Template Development by Packt Publishing to review. You can view the chapter about serving multiple output formats on my blog, and below is my review of the rest. Author The author is Scott Newman, who has had several years' experience with Django, ...

I will shortly be receiving a free copy of Django 1.0 Template Development in order to review it. In the meantime, the publishers have given me this article extracted from the book to publish on my site. Enjoy! There are times when we will need to serve the same content in multiple ways whether it's ...