[Haskell-cafe] N-ANN: HBlog-0.1

[Alberto G. Corona]

No responses, but I'm sure that, like me, many laughed at this ;)


2013/4/2 Tom Murphy <amindfv at gmail.com>

> Oh, and happy April 1!
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 6:16 AM, Tom Murphy <amindfv at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>      Not particularly happy to announce the non-release of my latest
>> library, HBlog 0.1. I've been working on it steadily for a long time now,
>> but it's still not ready.
>>
>>      The library -- when it's finished -- will be a 100% Haskell
>> representation of blogs, from authors and posts up to the most abstract
>> notion of an entire blog as a Haskell data type.
>>
>>      I'd like to finish the library sometime, but I've been so busy! Any
>> spare time I've had, I've just ended up watching TV. I've been so caught up
>> with the final season of The Office, I didn't realize how much time had
>> passed since I originally had the idea! (2 years.) Didn't it seem like Jim
>> and Pam were going to break up a couple
>> weeks ago?!
>>
>>      Anyway, here's the code I've definitely settled on so far:
>>
>> data Author = Author { name :: String }
>>    deriving (Show, Eq)
>>
>> data Post = Post { title   :: String
>>                  , body    :: String
>>                  , authors :: [Author] }
>>    deriving (Show)
>>
>> data Blog = Blog [Post]
>>
>> hasSingleAuthor :: Post -> Bool
>> hasSingleAuthor post = 1 == (length $ authors post)
>>
>>      Feel free to use portions of this code in your own projects! Just be
>> sure to put at the top of all your source files: "Portions of this code (c)
>> 2013 Tom Murphy. All rights reserved."
>>
>> ROADMAP:
>>  -- Lenses sound pretty cool, so I've started writing lenses for the
>> Author type, as well as finding out what a lens is. Maybe one day there'll
>> be lenses for the Post type, too -- keep your fingers crossed!
>>  -- One time when I was walking home from work, I had the idea for blogs
>> being modeled as monads. Wouldn't that be awesome?: "The Blog Monad." I
>> haven't done it yet, though, because I haven't figured out what bind would
>> do. If you figure out how to model blogs as monads, just be sure to include
>> this in all of your sourcefiles: "Idea for blog monad (c) 2013 Tom Murphy.
>> All rights reserved."
>>
>>
>> Happy hacking!
>> Tom
>>
>>
>
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-- 
Alberto.
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