I will be updating this as I go… but see also the Wikipedia page on string functions in various languages. Joining a string list [code lang='haskell'] -- Python: ",".join(lst) -- either... import Data.List intercalate "," lst -- or... import Data.List concat (intersperse "," lst) [/code] Splitting on a string [code lang='haskell'] -- a.split(ss) -- You [...]

I would like Haskell better if it didn’t do its best to make me feel stupid. Tasks that are easy in other languages, such, say, maintaining some state or generating a random number, become difficult. After banging my head on the State monad I finally arrived at a kind of understanding, which I put here [...]

My 500GB backup drive started making horrible, horrible noises when spinning up, akin to a lawnmower trying to mow a rock, so I decided that it was time get another backup drive so that I would be safe. I picked up another drive at Fry’s (not a Maxtor this time, thank you very much; I [...]