
Andrew Coppin
I continue to be surprised at the things that don't seem to be on the Wiki... Google is typically no help at all with anything Haskell-related, because Haskell is so completely obscure. The various haddoc documentation is also frustratingly sparse in places. (E.g., Control.Concurrent.STM.TVar contains *nothing* but terse type signatures. And concurrent programming is already a tricky thing to get right.) Some things seem to be "well known" yet not actually written down anywhere - e.g., the finer points of using "seq" to make stuff go faster.
Hmm, given the apparant scarcity of information on the new wiki I'm not sure if this is relevant or not, but for some time we had the entire wiki blacklisted in robots.txt because some broken bot was trying to pull O(n^2) (where n is the number of revisions of a page) diffs per page... anyay, this kept it from being indexed by Google and so forth. Eventually we discovered that if we added a single question mark to robots.txt, we could blacklist page history (and diffs) without blacklisting actual pages.