Haskell is about types. It is about functions and their composition. It is about dividing pure and impure code. The type system is one of the best in class. A frequent statement says: “If it compiles, it runs”.

My current development stack uses the CLI ghci and vim as an editor. I use Hoogle to search for types or type definitions, and use Hackage to dive into the libraries frequently used.

Donald Knuth wrote about literate programming years ago. Literate programming is about keeping the documentation near to the implementation. Over years, several products like doxygen are helping to solve this kind of problem. There exists a product named sandcastle for .NET based code. It is able to generate MSDN like documentation.

I am running my Gentoo system for a few years now. This is my loose collection of hints and tricks. These notes are work in progress.

When Bram Moolenaar created vim in 1991, he made a foundation for one of the best editing experiences in the world. Vim is a highly customizable editor, especially used and loved by developers.