>And yet, the programs don't all perform the same.
Because they don't all use pcre. Duh?
>The GHC version has been updated so many times since the last programs were contributed, that I hope the code would look better if it was written to use the latest greatest Haskell.
Why on earth would the code change because of a new compiler release? Do people rewrite the C one every time a new GCC is released? And the code looks fine, what "better" do you want?
You got them from seeing someone writing a faster version. The part where you thought it had anything to do with "new stuff" is entirely your own imagination
Because they don't all use pcre. Duh?
>The GHC version has been updated so many times since the last programs were contributed, that I hope the code would look better if it was written to use the latest greatest Haskell.
Why on earth would the code change because of a new compiler release? Do people rewrite the C one every time a new GCC is released? And the code looks fine, what "better" do you want?