On 13-3-2009 12:58, Invisible wrote:
> 
>> Some thing that will in the end give you some credit when you finish it.
> 
> I have serious doubts that such a thing exists. I realise that's not 
> especially rational, but when you live for so long never receiving any 
> credit for anything you do, no matter how hard it was to do it, you 
> start to wonder whether credit actually exists at all.

Not in business (your boss simply assumes you do what you are paid for) 
but in education we normally do.

>> Not familiar with you open university, but they or similar institutes 
>> might have courses that are just as interesting as trying to build 
>> haskell from the ground up.
> 
> I looked. The OU in MK don't have anything remotely interesting. 

Does Open here not mean that you don't have to physically go somewhere?
Because I was thinking about one of those. Or the e-learning type of things.

> Somebody else might I guess, but how to find them?

GIYF? Or ask a friend or ask in some random newsgroup.

> If the guys at Strathclyde get back to me it could be very 
> interesting... but it's been days now, and I've heard nothing.
> 
>> Granted if you finish that it might be something interesting on your 
>> CV, but what is the chance that you will?
> 
> I don't know. Depends on how difficult it turns out to be.
> 
> FWIW, I'm not really trying to "build Haskell from the ground up". 

that is what you are thinking now.

> Rather, I'm trying to make a tool to help untangle complex compile 
> errors. Basically, I type in some code, and the program tells me what 
> types it's inferring, so you can try to figure out where it's going wrong.

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