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Adventures in Haskell – Error handling

Posted July 18, 2010 – 2:20 pm

I fell in love with Haskell almost the day I started using it. It’s not perfect, though, and one of its weaker areas is error/exception handling. I’m not going to cover all ways to return errors. For more details, see 8 ways to report errors in Haskell. Haskell has an Exception class in the Control.Exception […]

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Pics of the Vertical Motion Simulator (flight simulator) at NASA Ames Research Center

Posted July 14, 2010 – 5:15 pm

I got to go on a tour of the facilities at the Vertical Motion Simulator (flight simulator) at the NASA Ames Research Center. While we were there, a pilot was training in a simulation of a tiltrotor, one that resembles a 737 but can takeoff vertically. We also had a view into the control room […]

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You can’t parse HTML with regex

Posted July 5, 2010 – 12:36 pm

The top voted answer for this question on StackOverflow is epic: You can’t parse [X]HTML with regex. Because HTML can’t be parsed by regex. Regex is not a tool that can be used to correctly parse HTML. As I have answered in HTML-and-regex questions here so many times before, the use of regex will not […]

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	Monthly Archives: July 2010 Adventures in Haskell – Error handling Posted July 18, 2010 – 2:20 pm I fell in love with Haskell almost the day I started using it. It’s not perfect, though, and one of its weaker areas is error/exception handling. I’m not going to cover all ways to return errors. For more details, see 8 ways to report errors in Haskell. Haskell has an Exception class in the Control.Exception […] Tagged error handling, error monad, haskell \| Comments (2) Pics of the Vertical Motion Simulator (flight simulator) at NASA Ames Research Center Posted July 14, 2010 – 5:15 pm I got to go on a tour of the facilities at the Vertical Motion Simulator (flight simulator) at the NASA Ames Research Center. While we were there, a pilot was training in a simulation of a tiltrotor, one that resembles a 737 but can takeoff vertically. We also had a view into the control room […] Tagged nasa \| Comments (0) You can’t parse HTML with regex Posted July 5, 2010 – 12:36 pm The top voted answer for this question on StackOverflow is epic: You can’t parse [X]HTML with regex. Because HTML can’t be parsed by regex. Regex is not a tool that can be used to correctly parse HTML. As I have answered in HTML-and-regex questions here so many times before, the use of regex will not […] Comments (2)
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