[Haskell-cafe] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 134 - October 10, 2009
Patrick LeBoutillier
patrick.leboutillier at gmail.com
Sun Oct 11 08:10:23 EDT 2009
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.
Patrick
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 3:47 AM, <jfredett at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Haskell Weekly News
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> Issue 134 - October 10, 2009
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> 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
>
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