Hello,
as part of an effort to learn Haskell, me and a few friends want to
write an IRC statistcs generator. It would analyse logs and output HTML,
text, or whatever other format. However, I have a few questions; we're
all pretty new to this and it would be a shame to start off terribly
wrong and get bored before we get to the fun parts.
1. Is there a similar effort in Haskell? I've seen a truly awesome
IRCStats, but written in C (not that that's a bad thing).
2. I was thinking of the following structure:
* a uniform Event format: joins, parts, actions, normal lines, and
everything about them: the user, date and time, etc.
* functions that parse logs to a list of events. Exotic log format?
Just write a different function! (whatever `exotic' may mean)
* functions that do various statistics on a list of events. The
output will not be uniform. Examples are: who spoke most, what time
people speak most, etc.
* some way to make these into a common output form, maybe every above
module having two functions, one for `internal' format, and one for
converting that to proper output.
Now, there will probably be a lot of opportunities to ask for feedback
on possible statistics and log formats. My (main) question is whether
you see anything conceptually wrong in this approach.
With a bit of luck, we will be announcing hirst-0.1 in a few weeks or
months (we're doing this while having schoool and other engagements).
Thank you for your time,
Vlad
PS: This is my first post here, please point out any inadequacy.
--
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idea when it is the only one you have.
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