As a Haskell novice I really appreciate the effort to put this together and look forward to seeing more of them. The video is high production quality and the pacing was fast enough that I didn't get too bored, even though I already had a pretty good understanding of the Haskell that was covered.
It might be worth saying in the metadata somewhere (title, description, whatever) that a lot of what is actually covered here is how Pandoc uses Parsec. I think that this content of this video would be helpful to anyone just starting out with Parsec, but they would probably only find it by accident as-is. What I got most out of the video was just watching someone else's workflow. I think it would be helpful to some if you had some supplementary links in the description of the video that could help someone reproduce it locally. For example: - In the video it's not stated that "cabal install pandoc" (or equivalent) had already happened, and that this step is totally independent of the git clone. - A link to hasktags and perhaps even a link to documentation about Emacs TAGS might be helpful. I don't think this is a feature that all Emacs users are proficient with. - Having a PS1 prompt that contained the exit code from the last command was really clever, I hadn't seen that before. I'm sure some people would be interested in what the bashrc for that prompt looks like. -bob On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Chris Forno <je...@jekor.com> wrote: > I've just uploaded a video walking through > some of the source code for Pandoc. I plan to > create more videos like it (on Pandoc and other > open source/free software projects), and I'd > appreciate your feedback. > > https://www.youtube.com/watch? > v=FEFETKhhq8w&feature=youtube_gdata_play > er > > I think Haskell is particularly well-suited for this > type of study: > > - The code tends to be concise, and parts can > usually be analyzed in isolation thanks to > explicit state. > - Even after 10 years of exposure to Haskell I > feel like I still have much to learn about > idiomatic style from the writings of others. > - I've run across the same misconceptions > about Haskell in the professional world (and > had some myself in the beginning), and would > like more people to see what Haskell really is > like outside of papers and blog posts. > > Please let me know if there are other projects > you'd like to see me cover. Thanks. > > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell mailing list > Haskell@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell >
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