the arc of software bends towards understanding
Hello loyal readers: Inside 206-105 has a new theme! I’m retiring Manifest, which was a pretty nice theme but (1) the text size was too small and (2) I decided I didn’t really like the fonts, I’ve reskinned my blog with a theme based on Brent Jackson’s Ashley, but ported to work on WordPress. I […]
Today, I'd like to talk about some of the core design principles behind type classes, a wildly successful feature in Haskell. The discussion here is closely motivated by the work we are doing at MSRC to support type classes in Backpack. While I was doing background reading, I was flummoxed to discover widespread misuse of […]