Hi Haskellers, This semester, I am having a software engineering course. I always wanted to do something significant in Haskell. This is probably an opportunity that I can utilize. I have the following ideas, with inspiration from various sources. Please let me know your views/ideas on them. If you feel you are experienced enough, do warn me if the idea might not be feasible to implement! I will have about half a month for getting the Software Requirement Specification ready, and ~ 1 month of time for coding. 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. Idea 2: A module that generates optimum (in some sense) set of instructions for a given (pure, functional) expression. So, this basically involves concepts like * avoiding recalculating common subexpressions (expression-tree matching?), * register allocation (assuming a finite supply of registers, modeling as graph colouring), * Term rewriting I am just quoting some terms there, I may be wrong. but this might be a project that Haskell might help me beautifully model and execute. I would like to have some opinion on the complexity of the project ideas that I have in mind. Thanks, -- Vimal Indian Institute of Technology Madras Chennai India