[Haskell-cafe] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 210
Daniel Santa Cruz
dstcruz at gmail.com
Thu Dec 8 06:11:01 CET 2011
Welcome to issue 210 of the HWN, a newsletter covering developments in
the Haskell community. This release covers the week of November 27 to
December 3, 2011.
You can find the HTML version at:
http://contemplatecode.blogspot.com/2011/12/haskell-weekly-news-issue-210.html
Announcements
Heinrich Hordegen announced a tentative 2012 meeting schedule for
Munich Haskell group.
[1] http://goo.gl/JrnP6
New and Updated Projects
* data-timeout (Mikhail Vorozhtsov) Allows one to specify time
units for timeouts and convert between them.
[2] http://goo.gl/fbfGM
* Netwire (Ertugrul Soylemez; 3.0.0) Major API change.
[3] http://goo.gl/8hPwS
* monad-control (Bas van Dijk; 0.3) New and improved API.
[4] http://goo.gl/so3s9
Quotes of the Week
* Jafet: They're not nasty; their niceness is just distributed over
more people
* copumpkin: U NEED MOANAD
* xplat: i have a feeling that trying to write an interesting
dependently-typed program in Shen at any time in the near future
would be like trying to host a holiday dinner starting with an
empty lot, 2x4s, a stack of window panes, some cables and wiring
boxes, sheets of drywall, disconnected appliances, roof shingles,
rolls of insulation and bags of concrete
* Axman6: {-# PRAGMA ThisShitNeedsMoarFast #-}
Top Reddit Stories
* Name Your Type Variables!
Domain: amateurtopologist.com, Score: 71, Comments: 38
On Reddit: [5] http://goo.gl/I2uny
Original: [6] http://goo.gl/yRbmO
* Insane Haskell Professor on Lambda Calculus. Wait for it...
Domain: youtube.com, Score: 66, Comments: 17
On Reddit: [7] http://goo.gl/uDQJS
Original: [8] http://goo.gl/IauHk
* criterion 0.6 produces shiny new performance reports
Domain: bos.github.com, Score: 63, Comments: 8
On Reddit: [9] http://goo.gl/F2K76
Original: [10] http://goo.gl/x720h
* [commit: base] master: Add traceStack :: String -> a -> a
Domain: haskell.org, Score: 48, Comments: 5
On Reddit: [11] http://goo.gl/HCbf2
Original: [12] http://goo.gl/JzO3O
* Elm: functional reactive web-programming (compiles to html, css, js).
Just added reactive values, basic canvas support, and new interactive
examples.
Domain: elm-lang.org, Score: 45, Comments: 19
On Reddit: [13] http://goo.gl/mKS9a
Original: [14] http://goo.gl/ASt27
* Snap 0.7 released
Domain: snapframework.com, Score: 41, Comments: 1
On Reddit: [15] http://goo.gl/R3A8Y
Original: [16] http://goo.gl/SVgXy
* Haskell Communities and Activities Report - November 2011 edition
Domain: haskell.org, Score: 35, Comments: 0
On Reddit: [17] http://goo.gl/X82AK
Original: [18] http://goo.gl/CGKAr
* "fix' f = f (fix' f)" vs. "fix f = let x = f x in x"
Domain: groups.google.com, Score: 33, Comments: 15
On Reddit: [19] http://goo.gl/vadtO
Original: [20] http://goo.gl/SQSFL
* Announcing cabal-src: solve (some of) cabal dependency hell
Domain: yesodweb.com, Score: 32, Comments: 15
On Reddit: [21] http://goo.gl/PIB4S
Original: [22] http://goo.gl/00LZz
* aeson 0.4: easier, faster, nicer
Domain: github.com, Score: 31, Comments: 18
On Reddit: [23] http://goo.gl/G1J5A
Original: [24] http://goo.gl/DQ4bc
* Package authors: Please use Packdeps!
Domain: yesodweb.com, Score: 24, Comments: 10
On Reddit: [25] http://goo.gl/bLYvt
Original: [26] http://goo.gl/fNh9n
* Slides from my guest lecture at Stanford
Domain: blog.johantibell.com, Score: 22, Comments: 14
On Reddit: [27] http://goo.gl/ITFkN
Original: [28] http://goo.gl/4w1tK
Top StackOverflow Questions
* How to write a Haskell function that takes a variadic function as an
argument
votes: 28, answers: 1
Read on SO: [29] http://goo.gl/JqZ3H
* Functional lenses
votes: 18, answers: 2
Read on SO: [30] http://goo.gl/Qn2Ff
* Haskell : An example of a Foldable which is not a Functor?
votes: 17, answers: 2
Read on SO: [31] http://goo.gl/42lSo
* How does IncoherentInstances work?
votes: 17, answers: 1
Read on SO: [32] http://goo.gl/O1Ha4
* Minimum specification for Haskell library type classes?
votes: 16, answers: 2
Read on SO: [33] http://goo.gl/L7mO6
* Expressive and composable error types
votes: 16, answers: 1
Read on SO: [34] http://goo.gl/vkoZb
* Distributed Haskell state of the art in 2011?
votes: 16, answers: 2
Read on SO: [35] http://goo.gl/mx0kd
* Is it possible to implement liftM2 in Scala?
votes: 15, answers: 1
Read on SO: [36] http://goo.gl/p6TDl
* Are Haskell FlexibleInstances a stable extension to the language?
votes: 15, answers: 1
Read on SO: [37] http://goo.gl/sQc37
* Is Milner let polymorphism a rank 2 feature?
votes: 13, answers: 4
Read on SO: [38] http://goo.gl/kOcnW
Until next time,
Daniel Santa Cruz
References
1. http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/94240
2. http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.libraries/16691
3. http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/94245
4. http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/19038
5.
http://www.amateurtopologist.com/blog/2011/10/11/name-your-type-variables/
6.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/mxz3k/name_your_type_variables/
7. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TMojC0Nb6A
8.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/mw094/insane_haskell_professor_on_lambda_calculus_wait/
9. http://bos.github.com/criterion/
10.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/mx8vw/criterion_06_produces_shiny_new_performance/
11.
http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/cvs-libraries/2011-November/014698.html
12.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/muq40/commit_base_master_add_tracestack_string_a_a/
13. http://elm-lang.org/Elm.elm
14.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/mwbvj/elm_functional_reactive_webprogramming_compiles/
15. http://snapframework.com/blog/2011/12/01/snap-0.7-released
16. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/mwx4t/snap_07_released/
17. http://www.haskell.org/communities/11-2011/html/report.html
18.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/mzbia/haskell_communities_and_activities_report/
19.
http://groups.google.com/group/stanford-11au-cs240h/browse_thread/thread/41005683f4479eeb
20.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/mt7nt/fix_f_f_fix_f_vs_fix_f_let_x_f_x_in_x/
21. http://www.yesodweb.com/blog/2011/11/cabal-src
22.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/mrz9p/announcing_cabalsrc_solve_some_of_cabal/
23. https://github.com/bos/aeson/blob/0.4.0.0/release-notes.markdown
24.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/mvtmk/aeson_04_easier_faster_nicer/
25. http://www.yesodweb.com/blog/2011/12/please-use-packdeps
26.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/mvp4w/package_authors_please_use_packdeps/
27.
http://blog.johantibell.com/2011/11/slides-from-my-guest-lecture-at.html
28.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/mvoqd/slides_from_my_guest_lecture_at_stanford/
29.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8353845/how-to-write-a-haskell-function-that-takes-a-variadic-function-as-an-argument
30. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8307370/functional-lenses
31.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8359115/haskell-an-example-of-a-foldable-which-is-not-a-functor
32.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8371499/how-does-incoherentinstances-work
33.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8320039/minimum-specification-for-haskell-library-type-classes
34.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8320855/expressive-and-composable-error-types
35.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8362998/distributed-haskell-state-of-the-art-in-2011
36.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8366518/is-it-possible-to-implement-liftm2-in-scala
37.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8367423/are-haskell-flexibleinstances-a-stable-extension-to-the-language
38.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8296695/is-milner-let-polymorphism-a-rank-2-feature
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