Vanessa McHale's blog (14)
  • Projective Programming

    by Vanessa McHale | Haskell

    I read a recent Functional Pearl by Hinze and this inspired me to write up an example of projective programming and its motivation in logic/model theory.

  • Curry vs Uncurry on Hackage

    by Vanessa McHale | Haskell

    This post was inspired by a curious question on Twitter: is curry or uncurry more common in Haskell code?

  • Benchmarking the Edit Distance

    by Vanessa McHale | Programming

    As a follow-up to my post on computing the Levenshtein distance in ATS, I figured I'd write up some of the actual benchmark results, as well as some of the subtleties involved in benchmarking various ecosystems.

  • A Look at the Packages on Hackage

    by Vanessa McHale | Programming

    Initially, I had written hackage-fetch to see if there was any use of coelgot anywhere on Hackage. At the time, there was not, but this has changed due to my gmpint package. As of writing, it is not surprisingly the only use of co-(Elgot algebra)s on the entirety of Hackage.

  • An Old English Name Generator in Madlang

    by Vanessa McHale | Old English

    Inspired by a tweet, I decided to write an Old English name generator in Madlang. This would help my indecision (picking a favorite color is hard!), and it would unearth some limitations of Madlang.

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