[Haskell-cafe] Re: An idea - Feasibility and effort

Vimal wrote:

Idea 1: A Traceroute visualizer.

I saw the video on the London Haskell Group on how to create a game in Haskell, and loved the "rotating earth" part of the game. (Space Invaders or something like that). Combine the earth (with a Google earth touch) with a traceroute backend and animate packet routing via different cities live on the screen.

I like this idea. More of a fun project than a useful one. Probably Haskell isnt a good language to implement it, but as they say, one should never think about moulding a project to suit the language you code in.

Just out of curiosity: how do you plan to find out server locations (beyond the obvious top-level domain -> country heuristics)? Cheers Ben