Haskell
  • Strict Data Structures Do Not Improve Performance

    by Vanessa McHale | Haskell

    I have seen "strict data structures, lazy functions" bandied about among Haskellers. This is bad advice. Preferable is "know what you are doing."

  • Lazy Streaming With a C API

    by Vanessa McHale | Haskell

    Streaming via a C API presents a conundrum in Haskell: on the one hand, the C code is side effecting, on the other, we would like to provide a lazy API.

  • Development Tools for Haskell

    by Vanessa McHale | Haskell

    Though there are diverse tools for Haskell development many are not widely advertised; here I collect those I use.

  • A Case Study in Dhall for Package Configuration

    by Vanessa McHale | Haskell

    cpkg is now live on Hackage. It is a good deal less polished than I'd originally wanted, but it already gives impressive results (among them cross-compiling XMonad).

  • There Are Two Monadic Zygomorphisms

    by Vanessa McHale | Haskell

    The "obvious" way to write a monadic zygomorphism is to look at the definition for an ordinary zygomorphism, namely

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