[Haskell-cafe] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 196

[Daniel Santa Cruz]

   Welcome to issue 196 of the HWN, a newsletter covering developments in
   the Haskell community. This release covers the week of August 14 to
   20, 2011. [1] http://goo.gl/8hDku

New and Updated Projects

   * graphziz (Update - Ivan Lazar Miljenovic) Wraper around
     Graphviz.
     [2] http://goo.gl/gg30u

   * TKYProf (New - Mitsutoshi Aoe) A web-based interactive
     visualizer for GHC time and allocation profiling.
     [3] http://goo.gl/Inqze

Quotes of the Week

   * accel: next time I'll read a few research papers before I start
     trolling hakell

   * jmcarthur: your opinions all suck. i'm going back to #haskell (...)
     oh shit, i'm already there

Top Reddit Stories

   * Haskell For Kids: Week 1
     Domain: cdsmith.wordpress.com, Score: 37, Comments: 13
     On Reddit: [4] http://goo.gl/RY6li
     Original: [5] http://goo.gl/azAVz

   * New IBM CPU has transactional memory built in
     Domain: nextbigfuture.com, Score: 35, Comments: 4
     On Reddit: [6] http://goo.gl/cbjvN
     Original: [7] http://goo.gl/JOpWx

   * [GSoC] Text/UTF-8: Aftermath
     Domain: jaspervdj.be, Score: 32, Comments: 7
     On Reddit: [8] http://goo.gl/MTHNy
     Original: [9] http://goo.gl/esQNO

   * CamHac post-hackathon report
     Domain: haskell.org, Score: 31, Comments: 8
     On Reddit: [10] http://goo.gl/RHpfF
     Original: [11] http://goo.gl/GkVaa

   * GHC 7.4 won't have top-level MonoPatBinds anymore!
     Domain: hackage.haskell.org, Score: 25, Comments: 5
     On Reddit: [12] http://goo.gl/bS1VL
     Original: [13] http://goo.gl/SK2Tz

   * Ending GSoC (cabal repl)
     Domain: lambdasandwich.blogspot.com, Score: 25, Comments: 1
     On Reddit: [14] http://goo.gl/Rrzmj
     Original: [15] http://goo.gl/chb8A

   * If one of Haskell's goals is concurrency, then why is it based on
the λ-calculus and not on a process calculus?
     Domain: en.wikipedia.org, Score: 23, Comments: 39
     On Reddit: [16] http://goo.gl/Qjcgc
     Original: [17] http://goo.gl/ZSwt1

   * University of Reddit Class: "Fixing Imperative Programmers"
     Domain: reddit.com, Score: 22, Comments: 2
     On Reddit: [18] http://goo.gl/1hYlf
     Original: [19] http://goo.gl/26Qxd

   * A Command Line Reddit Viewer written in Haskell : programming
(xpost : /programming )
     Domain: reddit.com, Score: 22, Comments: 0
     On Reddit: [20] http://goo.gl/bT9q8
     Original: [21] http://goo.gl/VmVfA

   * Web-Based Environment for Gloss (Early Alpha: READ WARNINGS!)
     Domain: cdsmith.wordpress.com, Score: 21, Comments: 1
     On Reddit: [22] http://goo.gl/e4Tjo
     Original: [23] http://goo.gl/wVA9H

Top StackOverflow Questions

   * What are practical uses of applicative style?
     votes: 21, answers: 9
     Read on SO: [24] http://goo.gl/Ms6fs

   * Functional equivalent of decorator pattern?
     votes: 20, answers: 7
     Read on SO: [25] http://goo.gl/o8FhO

   * Why do 3 and x (which was assigned 3) have different inferred
types in Haskell?
     votes: 18, answers: 2
     Read on SO: [26] http://goo.gl/cm9av

   * Haskell tuple constructor (GHC) and the separation between a
language and its implementation
     votes: 15, answers: 1
     Read on SO: [27] http://goo.gl/tFvtk

   * Polymorphism within higher-order functions?
     votes: 13, answers: 1
     Read on SO: [28] http://goo.gl/hNvkE

   * What happens to missing type variables in Church-style core?
     votes: 12, answers: 2
     Read on SO: [29] http://goo.gl/kb2TM

   * Trying to implement Data.Either
     votes: 12, answers: 1
     Read on SO: [30] http://goo.gl/lguDh

   * How can I make file I/O more transactional?
     votes: 11, answers: 2
     Read on SO: [31] http://goo.gl/BjGFV

   * Trying to understand the types produced by monad transformers
     votes: 11, answers: 2
     Read on SO: [32] http://goo.gl/YHsRQ

   * Why doesn't Safe Haskell support Template Haskell?
     votes: 11, answers: 1
     Read on SO: [33] http://goo.gl/E1NCS

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   Until next time,
   Daniel Santa Cruz

References

   1. http://haskell.org/
   2. http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/18888
   3. http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/91743
   4. http://cdsmith.wordpress.com/2011/08/16/haskell-for-kids-week-1/
   5. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/jlrva/haskell_for_kids_week_1/
   6. http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/08/ibm-plants-transactional-memory-in-cpu.html#more
   7. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/jperf/new_ibm_cpu_has_transactional_memory_built_in/
   8. http://jaspervdj.be/posts/2011-08-19-text-utf8-the-aftermath.html
   9. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/jo6cd/gsoc_textutf8_aftermath/
  10. http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/CamHac/PostHackathonReport
  11. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/jj5lw/camhac_posthackathon_report/
  12. http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2357#comment:11
  13. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/jkeqp/ghc_74_wont_have_toplevel_monopatbinds_anymore/
  14. http://lambdasandwich.blogspot.com/2011/08/ending-gsoc.html
  15. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/jn8nl/ending_gsoc_cabal_repl/
  16. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_calculus
  17. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/jlipx/if_one_of_haskells_goals_is_concurrency_then_why/
  18. http://www.reddit.com/r/uorfip/
  19. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/jok49/university_of_reddit_class_fixing_imperative/
  20. http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/jorky/a_command_line_reddit_viewer_written_in_haskell/
  21. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/jouql/a_command_line_reddit_viewer_written_in_haskell/
  22. http://cdsmith.wordpress.com/2011/08/14/haskell-for-kids-a-web-based-environment/
  23. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/jis8g/webbased_environment_for_gloss_early_alpha_read/
  24. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7103864/what-are-practical-uses-of-applicative-style
  25. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7064389/functional-equivalent-of-decorator-pattern
  26. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7055146/why-do-3-and-x-which-was-assigned-3-have-different-inferred-types-in-haskell
  27. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7086668/haskell-tuple-constructor-ghc-and-the-separation-between-a-language-and-its-imp
  28. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7061538/polymorphism-within-higher-order-functions
  29. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7076517/what-happens-to-missing-type-variables-in-church-style-core
  30. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7121257/trying-to-implement-data-either
  31. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7059223/how-can-i-make-file-i-o-more-transactional
  32. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7088085/trying-to-understand-the-types-produced-by-monad-transformers
  33. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7107308/why-doesnt-safe-haskell-support-template-haskell