Hey everyone,
We started working on a client [1] for the sphinx full-text search
engine [2], which is a very fast full-text search engine that has
either SQL or XML as a backend. While our version is far from done (it
only supports the query command, and a limited number of parameters),
chris:
The communication with Sphinx is done using a quite low-level binary
protocol, but Data.Binary saved the day: it made it very easy for us
to parse all the binary things. Especially the use of the Get and Put
monads are a big improvement over the manual reading and keeping track
