Hello, as part of an effort to learn Haskell, me and a few friends want to write an IRC statistcs generator. It would analyse logs and output HTML, text, or whatever other format. However, I have a few questions; we're all pretty new to this and it would be a shame to start off terribly wrong and get bored before we get to the fun parts. 1. Is there a similar effort in Haskell? I've seen a truly awesome IRCStats, but written in C (not that that's a bad thing). 2. I was thinking of the following structure: * a uniform Event format: joins, parts, actions, normal lines, and everything about them: the user, date and time, etc. * functions that parse logs to a list of events. Exotic log format? Just write a different function! (whatever `exotic' may mean) * functions that do various statistics on a list of events. The output will not be uniform. Examples are: who spoke most, what time people speak most, etc. * some way to make these into a common output form, maybe every above module having two functions, one for `internal' format, and one for converting that to proper output. Now, there will probably be a lot of opportunities to ask for feedback on possible statistics and log formats. My (main) question is whether you see anything conceptually wrong in this approach. With a bit of luck, we will be announcing hirst-0.1 in a few weeks or months (we're doing this while having schoool and other engagements). Thank you for your time, Vlad PS: This is my first post here, please point out any inadequacy. -- There is nothing more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.