In the "if anyone is interested,..." department.... For reasons that remain unclear, early this fall I started translating Brian W. Kernighan and P.J. Plaugher's classic _Software Tools in Pascal_ into Haskell. I have completed most of it, up to the second part of chapter 8 which presents a proto-m4 preprocessor. I have the code online including notes, comments, descriptions, and a few alternate approaches. Attractions include: * A fair gamut of the usual Unix suspects: proto-cat, proto-wc, proto-tr, proto-compress, proto-ar, proto-grep, etc. * A usable editor, if you consider a de-featured ed-alike to be usable. * A simple monadic regular expression engine. * Zippers, Parsec, the State monad, the StateT monad transformer, and other attempts to sully Computing Science's brightest jewels. * Lots and lots of really bad Haskell, including a fair bit that is a direct translation of 30-year old Pascal (see xindex in translit, Ch. 2, if you need to skip lunch). Programming really has advanced, you know. Anyway, the URL is: http://www.crsr.net/Programming_Languages/SoftwareTools Questions and comments would be appreciated, especially suggestions for how to make the code cleaner and more understandable. Flames and mockery are welcome, too, but only if they're funny---remember, I've been staring at Haskell, Pascal (plus my job-related Perl, CORBA, and C++) for a while; there's no telling what my mental state is like. [I had intended to wait until I had the whole thing done to make this announcement, but I recently moved and have not made much forward progress since, other than putting what I had done online.] -- Tommy M. McGuire mcguire@crsr.net