[Haskell-cafe] Re: String vs ByteString

[Vo Minh Thu]

2010/8/15 Ivan Lazar Miljenovic <ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com>:
> Vo Minh Thu <noteed at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 2010/8/15 Ivan Lazar Miljenovic <ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com>:
>>> Don Stewart <dons at galois.com> writes:
>>>
>>>>     * Pay attention to Haskell Cafe announcements
>>>>     * Follow the Reddit Haskell news.
>>>>     * Read the quarterly reports on Hackage
>>>>     * Follow Planet Haskell
>>>
>>> And yet there are still many packages that fall under the radar with no
>>> announcements of any kind on initial release or even new versions :(
>>
>> If you're interested in a comprehensive update list, you can follow
>> Hackage on Twitter, or the news feed.
>
> Except that that doesn't tell you:
>
> * The purpose of the library
> * How a release differs from a previous one
> * Why you should use it, etc.
>
> Furthermore, several interesting discussions have arisen out of
> announcement emails.

Sure, nor does it write a book chapter about some practical usage. I
mean (tongue in cheek) that the other ressource, nor even some proper
annoucement, provide all that.

I still remember the UHC annoucement (a (nearly) complete Haskell 98
compiler) thread where most of it was about lack of support for n+k
pattern.

But the bullet list above was to point Andrew a few places where he
could have learn about Text.

Cheers,
Thu