[Haskell-cafe] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 187

[Lyndon Maydwell]

It's probably obvious, but is there a reason why the links in this
email are being minimised?


On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Daniel Santa Cruz <dstcruz at gmail.com> wrote:
>   Welcome to issue 187 of the HWN, a newsletter covering developments in
>   the Haskell community. This release covers the week of June 12 to 18,
>   2011.
>
> Announcements
>
>   Ian Lynagh announced a new patchlevel release of GHC (7.0.4). "This
>   release contains a handful of bugfixes relative to 7.0.3, so we
>   recommend upgrading."
>   http://goo.gl/hOvdA
>
>   Nicolas Wu released the third instance fo Haskell Parallel Digest.
>   Many thanks to Nick and Eric for putting this together.
>   http://goo.gl/s5muy
>
>   Jeroen Janssen invited us to the 8th Ghent Functional Programming
>   Group Meeting, to be held on Thursday, the 30th of June, in the
>   Technicum building of Ghent University.
>   http://goo.gl/G081Q
>
> Quotes of the Week
>
>   * monochrom: if I were dying to learn covariance, I would not be
>     looking for entertainment, like, I'm dying, I only have 5 minutes
>     to learn covariance, thank you very much
>
>   * hpc: the categorical dual of a hippomorphism should be a
>     giraffomorphism
>
>   * ksf: but, as, maybe indeed or not apparently, english, in, or
>     especially in, punctuation matters is an utter mess.
>
>   * 00:56:03 <benmachine> @faq can haskell tell if I am
>       lagging [...]
>     00:57:18 <lambdabot> The answer is: Yes! Haskell can
>       do that.
>
> Top Reddit Stories
>
>   * Haskell: the Craft of Functional Programming, 3rd edition is out!
>     Domain: haskellcraft.com, Score: 44, Comments: 10
>     On Reddit: http://goo.gl/6ZInj
>     Original: http://goo.gl/t0GAX
>
>   * GHC 7.0.4 is out
>     Domain: haskell.org, Score: 42, Comments: 2
>     On Reddit: http://goo.gl/oxSJH
>     Original: http://goo.gl/EzWUP
>
>   * SafeHaskell pushed into GHC
>     Domain: haskell.org, Score: 39, Comments: 5
>     On Reddit: http://goo.gl/sOrjr
>     Original: http://goo.gl/2Rw56
>
>   * Minimum footprint for a GHC program: or, think about your TSOs
>     Domain: stackoverflow.com, Score: 23, Comments: 0
>     On Reddit: http://goo.gl/eIF0o
>     Original: http://goo.gl/dRgLG
>
>   * Pieces of Yesod: Inverting a Haskell Function
>     Domain: chplib.wordpress.com, Score: 21, Comments: 8
>     On Reddit: http://goo.gl/NFJNH
>     Original: http://goo.gl/x2cz2
>
>   * The 2011 ICFP contest is starting in just 6 hours!
>     Domain: icfpcontest.org, Score: 20, Comments: 15
>     On Reddit: http://goo.gl/BS7XI
>     Original: http://goo.gl/oqj0Y
>
>   * A pattern for avoiding allocation : Inside T5
>     Domain: blog.ezyang.com, Score: 19, Comments: 12
>     On Reddit: http://goo.gl/thuRP
>     Original: http://goo.gl/IZCIh
>
>   * Package of the Day: an improved runghc for fast repeated runs
>     Domain: hackage.haskell.org, Score: 16, Comments: 9
>     On Reddit: http://goo.gl/k6mQK
>     Original: http://goo.gl/a0DAC
>
>   * The Supero Supercompiler
>     Domain: community.haskell.org, Score: 16, Comments: 2
>     On Reddit: http://goo.gl/vBeFO
>     Original: http://goo.gl/3QsmC
>
>   * Galois Video: Building an Open-Source Autonomous Quad-Copter
>     Domain: corp.galois.com, Score: 15, Comments: 3
>     On Reddit: http://goo.gl/HZghO
>     Original: http://goo.gl/6AcMw
>
> Top StackOverflow Questions
>
>   * Why does performGC fail to release all memory?
>     votes: 17, answers: 2
>     Read on SO: http://goo.gl/dRgLG
>
>   * OSX, ghci, dylib, what is the correct way?
>     votes: 17, answers: 1
>     Read on SO: http://goo.gl/0s9Tu
>
>   * Why does Haskell's `head` crash on an empty list (or why
> *doesn't* it return an empty list)? (Language philosophy)
>     votes: 15, answers: 6
>     Read on SO: http://goo.gl/tghQR
>
>   * Towards understanding CodeGen* in the Haskell LLVM bindings
>     votes: 13, answers: 1
>     Read on SO: http://goo.gl/LPZ2F
>
>   * What happens to you if you break the monad laws?
>     votes: 13, answers: 3
>     Read on SO: http://goo.gl/Trvny
>
>   * Is anyone using delimited continuations to do web development in Haskell?
>     votes: 12, answers: 3
>     Read on SO: http://goo.gl/hGjuB
>
>   * The concept of Bottom in Haskell
>     votes: 12, answers: 1
>     Read on SO: http://goo.gl/9b1ZJ
>
> About the Haskell Weekly News
>
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>
>   Until next time,
>   Daniel Santa Cruz
>
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