Matthew Brunelle's Blog
I spent money on a domain so I might as well use it.
Paleontology

Haskell Nirvana

From when I was once very obsessed with Haskell.

This post is a part of my blog paleontology series. I dug up and restored this post on 2025-08-11.I've updated some links to the wayback machine when needed.

I mentioned in the Parasail Alpha 0.2 Release post that I was a huge language design nerd. The obession peaked for a couple years with Haskell during college.

Haskell is tough, and I love that about it. It forces you to take your time, in order to produce reliable code. I may just convert from being a Pythonista to Haskellism. However if I am ever going to get anything worth while made with it, I'm going to need to reach a state of Haskell Nirvana. I want to know every nuance of the language from top to bottom. As such, I am maintaining a list of the sources that I have found most helpful, for those who may wish to walk down the path of zen as well.

~Matt

Member discussion

Similar topics

H320 Research Paper Response: Understanding Regression Failures Through Test-Passing and Test-Failing Code Changes

I once read a paper about regression tests.

H320 Research Paper Response: Fine-Grained Version Control System for Java

I once read a paper about version control.

H320 Research Paper Response: Simplifying and Isolating Failure-Inducing Input

I once read a paper about testing.

Monads, Not a Thing I Made Up

"A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors" they say.

Portal 2 Computability

In which I get very excited about realizing a game is Turing complete.