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alcinnz

There's several reasons I like writing the documentation at adrian.geek.nz/docs !

I like reading over that code to exercise my software freedom to audit the code for malfeatures, though I don't trust myself to recognize vulnerabilities.

I want to make sure I comprehend what I'm reading, writing it down helps.

I like learning from how established projects do things, why computers are the way they are from the silicon on up.

And I think you might benefit from that understanding too!

adrian.geek.nz"How does this software work?" by Adrian Cochrane

P.S. I've figured out the topics for the next few days as I finish off describing GHC's runtime! This will all be related in some way to the GHCi/Template Haskell interpretor.

1. Symbol tables
2. Linking
3. Function calls
4. The interpretor itself!

Then I'll follow up with a rapid Haskell tutorial & my understanding of decentralized networking before covering Haskell webdev via Happstack!

Sound good?