[Haskell-cafe] Byte Histogram

[Andrew Coppin]

>> Right. So somebody else came up with an idea similar to mine, but since
>> nobody could agree on anything more than a rough idea, nothing actually got
>> done...(?)
>
> Well, I also got the sense that it would be more than a little
> nontrivial to implement. Or at least, someone was talking about how it
> would be a good topic for writing a thesis about if someone managed to
> figure how to do it. I suspect that if someone were to actually put in
> the effort they would be afforded the privilege of getting to nail
> down the details. That's just completely baseless speculation, though.

That sounds like a good description for just about every imaginable 
extension to Haskell that does something interesting! :-D