Vimal <j.vi...@gmail.com> wrote: > The above are some of the features which I believe are necessary for > packet analysis (or, analytics maybe?). There could be more. I was > wondering if Haskell would be a good language to achieve these things. > I had a brief idea and started writing an application in C and I > realised the need for such a framework. The ease of parallelism > offered by Haskell prompted me to think about using it. I would like > to hear your comments. > I think it's a perfect fit, not only because of parallelism. Mentally combining parser combinators and state collectors a la quickcheck makes me wonder why anyone would use atrocities like iptables[1]...
> Also, would this qualify as a project that someone in the Haskell > community would be willing to mentor for GSoC 2009? (Assuming Haskell > would be on the list of mentoring organisations, although I have no > reason to doubt it wouldn't.) > ZOMG! Don't ask, copy and paste your mail to the proposals! [1] says someone who actually likes iptables -- (c) this sig last receiving data processing entity. Inspect headers for copyright history. All rights reserved. Copying, hiring, renting, performance and/or quoting of this signature prohibited. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe