Vimal
The above are some of the features which I believe are necessary for packet analysis (or, analytics maybe?). There could be more. I was wondering if Haskell would be a good language to achieve these things. I had a brief idea and started writing an application in C and I realised the need for such a framework. The ease of parallelism offered by Haskell prompted me to think about using it. I would like to hear your comments.
I think it's a perfect fit, not only because of parallelism. Mentally combining parser combinators and state collectors a la quickcheck makes me wonder why anyone would use atrocities like iptables[1]...
Also, would this qualify as a project that someone in the Haskell community would be willing to mentor for GSoC 2009? (Assuming Haskell would be on the list of mentoring organisations, although I have no reason to doubt it wouldn't.)
ZOMG! Don't ask, copy and paste your mail to the proposals! [1] says someone who actually likes iptables -- (c) this sig last receiving data processing entity. Inspect headers for copyright history. All rights reserved. Copying, hiring, renting, performance and/or quoting of this signature prohibited.