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Sorry, RSA, I'm just not buying it

I want to be extremely clear about three things. First, this is my personal opinion – insert full standard disclaimer. Second, this is not a condemnation of everyone at RSA, present and past. I assume most of them are pretty okay, and that the problem is confined to a few specific points in the company. However, “unknown problem people making major decisions at RSA” is a bit unwieldy, so I will just say RSA. Third, I'm not calling for a total boycott on RSA. I work almost literally across the street from them and I don’t want to get beat up by roving gangs of cryptographers at the local Chipotle.

RSA's denial published last night is utter codswallop that denies pretty much everything in the world except the actual allegations put forth by Reuters and hinted at for months by [other sources](http://li

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gelisam

In response to this reddit post about failing to understand the Pipes library after a couple of hours. I wanted to show how an experienced haskeller does it, but I'm afraid it also took me quite a few hours, which is why the following list of steps goes on and on.

After all those hours, my opinion is that Pipes is not at all an easy library. I don't know if Conduit is any easier, but otherwise I side with your friend in advising to use something else (perhaps ordinary lazy IO?) instead of Pipes.

Anyway, here is the full brain dump of my steps as I tried to get your three snippets to fit together.

• Since you say that you have a hard time combining the snippets, I assume that they must have complicated types. So my first goal is to figure out the type of your first snippet.
• hoogle for parseUrl, withManager, etc. No results.
• Google for haskell runEffect, find that it's a method from Pipes.Core,