Real World Haskell

We received a number of great submissions within hours of posting our request for suggestions for a library to develop bindings for in the FFI chapter. Thanks to everyone who contributed.
After looking over the alternatives, we’ve decided to use PCRE as the example. Even though there already exist useful bindings to PCRE, it’s still a [...]

Update 2008-05-12: We’ve decided to go with PCRE. Thanks for all of your suggestions!
We’re about to start on one of our last chapters, on using Haskell’s foreign function interface (FFI). We’re currently kicking around candidate C libraries that we can use as examples to write bindings for.
So far, we’ve thought about PCRE and sqlite: each [...]

A number of reviewers have asked about chapters that have not yet been heavily commented upon. Here’s a table that indicates the current state of play for all of the beta chapters we have published so far. It’s ranked by the ratio of the number of paragraphs in a chapter to the number of comments [...]

I had a lot of fun talking about concurrent and parallel programming last night. Thanks to Keith Fahlgren for organising the event, to Twitter’s Alex Payne for making space available, and to everyone who turned up and asked questions.
With any luck, Keith will have the video of the talk up in a few days. I [...]

I’ve just posted two new beta chapters for review:

5. Functional programming
6. Writing a library

Also, we’ll soon be starting to feed chapters into O’Reilly’s production pipeline. If you’ve been following our progress, but holding off on reading and reviewing draft chapters, this would be a great time to start taking a look if you want to [...]

Next Thursday evening, May 8, I’ll be talking about concurrent and multicore programming in Haskell. The meeting is being organised by BayFP, and space is being generously donated by Twitter.
The meeting will be at 7:30pm, in the South Park neighbourood of San Francisco. For more details, including directions, see the BayFP blog posting.
BayFP talks are [...]