[Haskell-beginners] Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Weekly News: Issue
134 - October 10, 2009
Zsolt Dollenstein
zsol.zso.l at gmail.com
Sun Oct 11 08:19:58 EDT 2009
Hi Patrick,
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Patrick LeBoutillier <
patrick.leboutillier at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Could/should the Haskell Weekly News be posted to the beginners list as
> well?
>
> I normally don't follow haskell-cafe (too much traffic and generally above
> my level I must admit...), but I like to follow what's going on in the
> Haskell community.
>
It is also posted to haskell@ as well. This is a low-traffic group which
usually hosts announcements and news. Try signing up for this one.
Zsolt
>
>
> Patrick
>
> On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 3:47 AM, <jfredett at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Haskell Weekly News
>> http://sequence.complete.org/hwn/20091010
>> Issue 134 - October 10, 2009
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Welcome to issue 134 of HWN, a newsletter covering developments in the
>> [1]Haskell community.
>>
>> What with Don Stewart's [2]call to [3]arms to lead Haskell to conquest
>> over (E)DSL-land, I've once again tried to highlight discussion of
>> EDSL's this week. Fortunately, it was actually more difficult choosing
>> what _not_ to include this week, since there was so much discussion
>> about DSLs and Syntax extensions (a related notion, in my opinion).
>> Also, this week Bryan O'Sullivan put his Criterion Library to good use
>> on the `text` package, leading to [4]code which is more than ten times
>> faster than before! With all this fantastic news, I won't hold you up
>> any longer, Haskellers, the Haskell Weekly News!
>>
>> Announcements
>>
>> CfPart: FMICS 2009, 2-3 November 2009, Final Call. FMICS 2009 workshop
>> chair [5]announced the final call for particpaction for FMICS 2009
>>
>> ICFP videos now available. Wouter Swierstra [6]announced the
>> availablity of videos from the International Conference on Functional
>> Programming (ICFP)
>>
>> GPipe-1.0.0: A functional graphics API for programmable GPUs. Tobias
>> Bexelius [7]announced the first release of GPie, a functional graphics
>> API for programmable GPUs.
>>
>> text 0.5, a major revision of the Unicode text library. Bryan
>> O'Sullivan [8]announced a new, major version of the text package. New
>> API features, and huge improvments in speed, as Bryan says, 'Get it
>> while it's fresh on Hackage, folks!'
>>
>> vty-ui 0.2. Jonathan Daugherty [9]announced a new version of the vty-ui
>> package, with fewer bugs, more widgets, and cleaner code due to new
>> more powerful abstractions.
>>
>> htzaar-0.0.1. Tom Hawkins [10]announced HTZAAR, a Haskell
>> implementation of TZAAR
>>
>> Graphalyze-0.8.0.0 and SourceGraph-0.5.5.0. Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
>> [11]announced To keep this editor happy, Ivan released two new packaged
>> in one announcement. This time, he's added Legend support to
>> Graphalyze, but also many new changes to SourceGraph, including a
>> legend so you can see what all the symbols mean, Better color support,
>> and much more.
>>
>> TxtSushi 0.4.0. Keith Sheppard [12]announced a new version of TxtSushi,
>> a set of command line utilities for processing CSV and TSV files.
>>
>> Discussion
>>
>> Applicative do? Philippa Cowderoy [13]asked about a `do` like syntax
>> for Applicative functors.
>>
>> How to add use custom preprocessor in cabal. Bernd Brassel [14]asked
>> how to add a custom preprocessor to the build chain of a cabal file.
>>
>> On DSLs - one last time. Gunther Schmidt [15]summarized his impressions
>> on al the recent discussion of DSLs
>>
>> What is a DSL? Oleg [16]offered some insight into different
>> [17]properties that can be part of a single tagless framework. He also
>> pointed to some slides and other materials such as a website [18]here
>> and slides [19]here about DSL implementations and definitions.
>>
>> What is a DSL? Gunther Schmidt [20]posed the question, 'What is a DSL',
>> and with some further questions added by yours truly, a lively
>> discussion about the definition of a DSL ensued.
>>
>> Finally tagless - stuck with implementation of 'lam'. Gunther Schmidt
>> [21]asked another question about Finally Tagless DSLs and resolving an
>> issue with the implementation of 'lam'
>>
>> Blog noise
>>
>> [22]Haskell news from the [23]blogosphere. Blog posts from people new
>> to the Haskell community are marked with >>>, be sure to welcome them!
>> * Darcs: [24]darcs weekly news #43.
>> * JP Moresmau: [25]What client for an Haskell Multi Player Game?.
>> * Mikael Vejdemo Johansson (Syzygy-): [26][MATH198] Third lecture is
>> up.
>> * Bryan O'Sullivan: [27]Announcing a major revision of the Haskell
>> text library.
>> * Eric Kow (kowey): [28]darcs hashed-storage work merged (woo!).
>> * David Amos: [29]Symmetries of PG(n,Fq).
>> * The GHC Team: [30]Parallelism /= Concurrency.
>> * >>> Nefigah: [31]Fake World Haskell. Nefigah, a recent addition to
>> the community, has been working through RWH, and is providing some
>> excellent examples. Though, This editor prefers the title 'Real
>> Life Haskell' as opposed to his choice.
>> * Tom Schrijvers: [32]Release 0.6 of Monadic Constraint Programming.
>> * Neil Brown: [33]Concurrency Can Be Deterministic (But The Type
>> System Doesn't Know It).
>> * Clint Moore: [34]Curiously Parallel.
>> * Galois, Inc: [35]Tech Talk: Constructing A Universal Domain for
>> Reasoning About Haskell Datatypes.
>> * Neil Brown: [36]Terminal Concurrency: The Printing Process.
>> * Sean Leather: [37]'Upwards and downwards accumulations on trees'
>> translated into Haskell.
>> * Mikael Vejdemo Johansson (Syzygy-): [38][MATH 198] Second lecture.
>> * Chris Smith: [39]View Patterns as Pattern Matching for Records.
>> * Chris Smith: [40]Playing With Records.
>> * FP Lunch: [41]Left Kan extensions of containers.
>>
>> Quotes of the Week
>>
>> * Baughn: Blum Blum Shub, a PRNG derived from poking around R'Lyeh.
>> * ksf: * lambdabot locks up ksf in a Monad <ksf> mmmmh it's warm and
>> fuzzy in here.
>> * monochrom: Don't wrap your head around Haskell. Immerse! Wrap
>> Haskell around your head.
>> * chak: ... In other words, FP is inevitable.
>> * robreim: I'm in your base hacking all your lambdas
>> * gwern: RAM is overrated, swap is where it's at ;)
>> * idnar: [to gwern] swap to a ramdisk! ;P
>>
>> About the Haskell Weekly News
>>
>> New editions are posted to [42]the Haskell mailing list as well as to
>> [43]the Haskell Sequence and [44]Planet Haskell. [45]RSS is also
>> available, and headlines appear on [46]haskell.org.
>>
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>> [48]http://patch-tag.com/r/jfredett/HWN2/pullrepo HWN2 .
>>
>> References
>>
>> 1. http://haskell.org/
>> 2.
>> http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2009-October/067203.html
>> 3.
>> http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/9qk54/haskell_should_own_the_edsl_space_a_call_to_arms/
>> 4.
>> http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2009/10/09/announcing-a-major-revision-of-the-haskell-text-library/
>> 5. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/17555
>> 6. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/17552
>> 7. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/17546
>> 8. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/64591
>> 9. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/64529
>> 10. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/64516
>> 11. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/64399
>> 12. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/64301
>> 13. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/64616
>> 14. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/64558
>> 15. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/64552
>> 16. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/64533
>> 17. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/
>> 18. http://dsl09.blogspot.com/
>> 19. http://dsl09.blogspot.com/2009/07/panel.html
>> 20. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/64474
>> 21. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/64343
>> 22. http://planet.haskell.org/
>> 23. http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Blog_articles
>> 24. http://blog.darcs.net/2009/10/darcs-weekly-news-43.html
>> 25.
>> http://jpmoresmau.blogspot.com/2009/10/what-client-for-haskell-multi-player.html
>> 26.
>> http://blog.mikael.johanssons.org/archive/2009/10/math198-third-lecture-is-up/
>> 27.
>> http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2009/10/09/announcing-a-major-revision-of-the-haskell-text-library/
>> 28.
>> http://koweycode.blogspot.com/2009/10/darcs-hashed-storage-work-merged-woo.html
>> 29. http://haskellformaths.blogspot.com/2009/10/symmetries-of-pgnfq.html
>> 30.
>> http://ghcmutterings.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/parallelism-concurrency/
>> 31. http://my.life-is-virtual.com/2009/10/07/fake-world-haskell-part-1/
>> 32.
>> http://tomschrijvers.blogspot.com/2009/10/release-06-of-monadic-constraint.html
>> 33.
>> http://chplib.wordpress.com/2009/10/07/concurrency-can-be-deterministic/
>> 34. http://www.l2mlogistics.com/2009/10/curiously-parallel.html
>> 35. http://www.galois.com/blog/2009/10/06/huffman-universal/
>> 36. http://chplib.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/the-printing-process/
>> 37.
>> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/splonderzoek/~3/4E8TZPDZ-aM/upwards-and-downwards-accumulations-on.html<http://feedproxy.google.com/%7Er/splonderzoek/%7E3/4E8TZPDZ-aM/upwards-and-downwards-accumulations-on.html>
>> 38.
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>> 39.
>> http://cdsmith.wordpress.com/2009/10/04/view-patterns-as-pattern-matching-for-records/
>> 40. http://cdsmith.wordpress.com/2009/10/03/playing-with-records/
>> 41. http://sneezy.cs.nott.ac.uk/fplunch/weblog/?p=237
>> 42. http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
>> 43. http://sequence.complete.org/
>> 44. http://planet.haskell.org/
>> 45. http://sequence.complete.org/node/feed
>> 46. http://haskell.org/
>> 47. http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/HWN
>> 48. http://patch-tag.com/r/jfredett/HWN2/pullrepo%20HWN2
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