[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Weekly News

Joe Fredette jfredett at gmail.com
Fri Oct 9 12:30:42 EDT 2009


Mostly it's been issues with sendmail, I think I have them fixed for  
this week. (I think...)

Thanks for the input!

/Joe


On Oct 9, 2009, at 4:46 AM, Benjamin L.Russell wrote:

> Thank you for including my quote (by "dekudekuplex"), and great work
> so far!
>
> Just a couple of minor comments:
>
> 1) It might be useful for referencing by subject if you could include
> the issue number and date in the subject line (e.g., " Haskell Weekly
> News: Issue 131 - September 25, 2009") instead of only "Haskell Weekly
> News."
>
> 2) Instead of posting separately to the Haskell and Haskell-Cafe
> mailing lists, it might be better to cross-post, since that way,
> readers using newsreaders can have the cross-posted article
> automatically marked "read" in the mailing list where it has not been
> read.
>
> Other than that, hope that you get over your sinus infection, and keep
> up the good work!
>
> Benjamin L. Russell
>
> On Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:46:25 -0700 (PDT), Joe Fredette
> <jfredett at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Haskell Weekly News
>> http://sequence.complete.org/hwn/20091003
>> Issue 134 - October 03, 2009
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>  Welcome to issue 134 of HWN, a newsletter covering developments in  
>> the
>>  [1]Haskell community.
>>
>>  I have a nasty sinus infection this week, so we're somewhat light on
>>  content. Lots of good discussion about DSL related stuff this week.
>>  Bryan O'Sullivan also release 'Criterion' this week, a new  
>> benchmarking
>>  library that Don Stewart described (on reddit) as 'awesome and game
>>  changing.' A new TMR editor -- someone familiar -- was announced.  
>> Also,
>>  there was some talk about homework policies on the mailinglists  
>> and in
>>  the irc channels. There is a [2]page on the Haskell wiki about this,
>>  but to sum it up in a maxim, remember, 'Help, don't do'. Until next
>>  week, the Haskell Weekly News!
>>
>> Announcements
>>
>>  New TMR editor. Wouter Swierstra [3]announced that he would be  
>> stepping
>>  down from the editorship of 'The Monad Reader', with former HWN  
>> editor
>>  Brent Yorgey taking his place. Much thanks for Wouter's hard work  
>> and
>>  good luck to Brent on his new editor job!
>>
>>  SourceGraph 0.5.{0,1,2}.0. Ivan Lazar Miljenovic [4]announced  
>> three new
>>  releases of the SourceGraph packages, this links to the latest  
>> release.
>>
>>  json-b-0.0.4. Jason Dusek [5]announced a new version of the json-b
>>  package, which fixes defective handling of empty objects and arrays.
>>
>>  rss2irc 0.4 released. Simon Michael [6]announced a new release of
>>  rss2irc, with many new improvements and features.
>>
>>  vty-ui 0.1. Jonathan Daugherty [7]announced vty-ui, which is an
>>  extensible library of user interface widgets for composing and  
>> laying
>>  out Vty user interfaces.
>>
>>  atom-0.1.1. Tom Hawkins [8]announced Atom, a Haskell DSL for  
>> designing
>>  hard real-time embedded applications.
>>
>>  Graphalyze-0.7.0.0. Ivan Lazar Miljenovic [9]announced (in an  
>> apparent
>>  effort to take over hackage by submitting dozens of quality  
>> packages at
>>  absurdly high speed), Graphalyze, a library for using graph- 
>> theoretic
>>  techniques to analyse the relationships inherent within discrete  
>> data.
>>
>>  Criterion. Bryan O'Sullivan [10]announced (without tacking on an  
>> 'ANN'
>>  tag, I might add, I almost missed it!) Criterion, a benchmarking
>>  library he describes [11]here.
>>
>>  ListTree 0.1. yairchu at gmail.com [12]announced ListTree, a package  
>> for
>>  combinatorial search and pruning of trees.
>>
>>  usb-0.1. Bas van Dijk [13]announced a library for interacting with  
>> usb
>>  modules from userspace.
>>
>>  (Deadline extended to October 5th) APLAS 2009 Call for Posters.
>>  Kiminori Matsuzaki [14]announced a deadline extension to the call  
>> for
>>  posters for the APLAS conference.
>>
>>  graphviz-2999.6.0.0. Ivan Lazar Miljenovic [15]announced a new  
>> version
>>  of the graphviz library, which features various new features and  
>> small
>>  changes.
>>
>> Discussion
>>
>>  Testing polymorphic properties with QuickCheck. Jean-Philippe  
>> Bernardy
>>  [16]gave an excellent overview about how to use QuickCheck to test
>>  polymorphic properties.
>>
>>  Designing a DSL? Gunther Schmidt [17]asked about different methods
>>  employed for designing a DSL.
>>
>>  DSL and GUI Toolkits. Gunther Schmidt [18]also asked about different
>>  DSLs for working with GUIs
>>
>>  error on "--++ bla bla bla". Hong Yang [19]asked about why '--++'
>>  wasn't being parsed in the way he thought it was.
>>
>>  Haskell for Physicists. edgar [20]requested name suggestions for the
>>  talk he is giving about Physics and Haskell.
>>
>> Blog noise
>>
>>  [21]Haskell news from the [22]blogosphere. Blog posts from people  
>> new
>>  to the Haskell community are marked with >>>, be sure to welcome  
>> them!
>>    * Sean Leather: [23]'Extensibility and type safety in  
>> formatting: the
>>      design of xformat' at the Dutch HUG.
>>    * Martijn van Steenbergen: [24]let 5 = 6.
>>    * Lee Pike: [25]Writer's unblock.
>>    * Manuel M T Chakravarty: [26]NVIDIAs next generation GPU
>>      architecture has a lot for HPC to love.
>>    * David Amos: [27]Finite geometries, part 4: Lines in PG(n,Fq).
>>    * Bryan O'Sullivan: [28]New criterion release works on Macs.
>>    * Neil Brown: [29]Poison: Concurrent Termination.
>>    * The GHC Team: [30]Heads up: what you need to know about  
>> Unicode I/O
>>      in GHC 6.12.1.
>>    * Galois, Inc: [31]Tech Talk: Roll Your Own Test Bed for Embedded
>>      Real-Time Protocols: A Haskell Experience.
>>    * Bryan O'Sullivan: [32]Criterion, a new benchmarking library for
>>      Haskell.
>>    * Tom Schrijvers: [33]Monadic Constraint Programming.
>>    * Neil Brown: [34]Growing Sort Pump.
>>
>> Quotes of the Week
>>
>>    * dekudekuplex: (Unfortunately (unless intentional)) the preceding
>>      (by ksf (in the 'Quotes of the Week' section)) quote had  
>> mismatched
>>      (one too many opening) parentheses (although it was still funny
>>      (even though it could have been edited (to make the parentheses
>>      match (even though that is not an important issue)))).
>>    * pozic: I think if you want to contact dons, you have to say that
>>      you found a bug in ByteString.
>>    * Veinor: [about dibblego kicking a whole bunch of spammers]
>>      crouching dibblego, hidden op
>>    * allbery_b: [on UndecidableInstances] 'this exceeds my easy
>>      threshold, turn on wizard mode' (at which point it becomes a lot
>>      smarter but may start contemplating its navel without warning)
>>    * byorgey: a bus error? try recompiling with -fsubway, perhaps
>>    * jafet: 'Zygomorphism' sounds like a reproductive disorder
>>
>> About the Haskell Weekly News
>>
>>  New editions are posted to [35]the Haskell mailing list as well as  
>> to
>>  [36]the Haskell Sequence and [37]Planet Haskell. [38]RSS is also
>>  available, and headlines appear on [39]haskell.org.
>>
>>  To help create new editions of this newsletter, please see the
>>  information on [40]how to contribute. Send stories to jfredett .  
>> at .
>>  gmail . dot . com. The darcs repository is available at darcs get
>>  [41]http://patch-tag.com/r/jfredett/HWN2/pullrepo HWN2 .
>>
>> References
>>
>>  1. http://haskell.org/
>>  2. http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Homework_help
>>  3. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/64213
>>  4. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/64259
>>  5. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/64254
>>  6. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/63838
>>  7. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/64070
>>  8. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/64035
>>  9. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/63989
>> 10. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/63985
>> 11. http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2009/09/29/criterion-a-new-benchmarking-library-for-haskell/
>> 12. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/63853
>> 13. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/64206
>> 14. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/17529
>> 15. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/17520
>> 16. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/17535
>> 17. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/64267
>> 18. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/64244
>> 19. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/64161
>> 20. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/64128
>> 21. http://planet.haskell.org/
>> 22. http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Blog_articles
>> 23. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/splonderzoek/~3/BHqNHIZFF7U/ 
>> extensibility-and-type-safety-in.html
>> 24. http://martijn.van.steenbergen.nl/journal/2009/10/02/let-5-6/
>> 25. http://leepike.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/writers-unblock/
>> 26. http://justtesting.org/post/201508784
>> 27. http://haskellformaths.blogspot.com/2009/09/finite-geometries-part-4-lines-in-pgnfq.html
>> 28. http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2009/09/30/new-criterion-release-works-on-macs/
>> 29. http://chplib.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/poison-concurrent-termination/
>> 30. http://ghcmutterings.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/heads-up-what-you-need-to-know-about-unicode-io-in-ghc-6-12-1/
>> 31. http://www.galois.com/blog/2009/09/29/pike-haskell0/
>> 32. http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2009/09/29/criterion-a-new-benchmarking-library-for-haskell/
>> 33. http://tomschrijvers.blogspot.com/2009/01/monadic-constraint-programming.html
>> 34. http://chplib.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/growing-sort-pump/
>> 35. http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
>> 36. http://sequence.complete.org/
>> 37. http://planet.haskell.org/
>> 38. http://sequence.complete.org/node/feed
>> 39. http://haskell.org/
>> 40. http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/HWN
>> 41. http://patch-tag.com/r/jfredett/HWN2/pullrepo%20HWN2
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