Tour of a real toy Haskell program

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My transition to "real" Haskell programming happened with some parallel signal processing stuff, but my best example toy is my two-player tetris clone, triHs: http://web.jfet.org/~kwantam/TriHs.tar.gz

Note the "bastard" key, where you can swap your opponent's next piece. >:)

Interesting article, some of it went a little over my head but I'm pleased to see articles like this as I've always wondered how people make that transition in Haskell from writing fibonacci sequence generators and one-line FizzBuzz functions.

Would be interested to see if this thread becomes popular and has the incentive for people to post their Haskell projects and how they did them

This is great. One of the barriers to entry for me into haskell hacking was finding a useful app to look at. Yi the editor was what finally got me over the hump. It's great that more people are recognizing this need and meeting it.

Is Yi still being developed? I've also encountered the fibonacci gap with Haskell, so looking at Yi would be pretty fun, but I was unable to install it via cabal the last time I tried.

The development had slowed but I've started submitting patches now so at least one new developer has joined the ranks there :-) There are at least three other developers who are are responsive on the development list so you can probably get your questions answered.

"I've also encountered the fibonacci gap ..."

Same here, and "the fibonacci gap" is a great way to describe one of the hurdles people face when learning a new language.

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