In the "if anyone is interested,..." department....
For reasons that remain unclear, early this fall I started translating
Brian W. Kernighan and P.J. Plaugher's classic _Software Tools in
Pascal_ into Haskell. I have completed most of it, up to the second
part of chapter 8 which presents a proto-m4 preprocessor. I have the
code online including notes, comments, descriptions, and a few alternate
approaches.
Attractions include:
* A fair gamut of the usual Unix suspects: proto-cat, proto-wc,
proto-tr, proto-compress, proto-ar, proto-grep, etc.
* A usable editor, if you consider a de-featured ed-alike to be usable.
* A simple monadic regular expression engine.
* Zippers, Parsec, the State monad, the StateT monad transformer, and
other attempts to sully Computing Science's brightest jewels.
* Lots and lots of really bad Haskell, including a fair bit that is a
direct translation of 30-year old Pascal (see xindex in translit, Ch. 2,
if you need to skip lunch). Programming really has advanced, you know.
Anyway, the URL is:
http://www.crsr.net/Programming_Languages/SoftwareTools
Questions and comments would be appreciated, especially suggestions for
how to make the code cleaner and more understandable. Flames and
mockery are welcome, too, but only if they're funny---remember, I've
been staring at Haskell, Pascal (plus my job-related Perl, CORBA, and
C++) for a while; there's no telling what my mental state is like.
[I had intended to wait until I had the whole thing done to make this
announcement, but I recently moved and have not made much forward
progress since, other than putting what I had done online.]
--
Tommy M. McGuire
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