Musings of a Software Development Manager

After committing to Haskell for my new language in 2007 it was largely a failed experiment. I never found a good learning Haskell book. I went through a few tutorials and nothing really clicked much. I found myself wanting to hack around on Ruby rather than mess around with Haskell syntax.
I really [...]

Today, I learned Haskell doesn’t like tabs. Haskell apparently uses some syntax conventions to connote things like blocks. I was working my way through a Haskell tutorial when I found the following snippet of code kept getting compiler errors:

fails
main = do putStr “You are? ”
[...]

I made a little headway on Haskell today.
Downloaded the GHCI environment to start running/compiling in Haskell. Had to find the Mac Intel port. Went looking for at least a TextMate bundle, turns out there is a pretty basic one available. Then started one of the basic Haskell tutorials.
After just an hour or [...]

One thing’s for sure (for 2007) I’m learning Haskell. Yeah, that’s right Haskell. Why? I don’t know.
– Charles Lowell of the Drunk and Retired Podcast, Episode 78.
I knew I chose wisely when choosing Haskell.

As with many techies I did some tech support for myself and relatives over the weekend:

Setup my in-laws backup solution to an external hard drive and did their first full backups. This took some time just because backing up about 200GB across two machines isn’t that fast.
Setup a wireless network for my in-laws. [...]