frustration:

[hyuri]

writing a (very limited, very primitive) pseudo–XML‑RPC library from scratch. also, implementing the client side of the LJ challenge/response authentication method. (getting a challenge is easy. generating the response is easy. setting up the timer is, ah... somewhat puzzling.)

Comments

[soltice.livejournal.com]

I did that once in a language called Haskell. It took over a week to write, although it was less than a page long...

[hyuri.livejournal.com]

I look at Haskell and I get lost. Quickly. Also confused. I dunno why, but the syntax annoys me.

I also apparently mis‑judged the difficulty of generating the response. .NET (text) is based around 16‑bit chars, and the MD5 functions take an array of 8‑bit bytes or a Stream as an argument. Conversion isn’ playing by the obvious rules (convert the string to a byte array, feed it through and get an MD5 hash, use the resulting object’s ToString() method...

Maybe it’ll make sense after I get some sleep.