[Haskell-cafe] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 294

Thu May 8 03:26:13 UTC 2014

Welcome to issue 294 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits
of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers
from April 27 to May 3, 2014

Quotes of the Week

   * roconnor: oh no. edwardk and I can never meet otherwise it will be
     revealed that I am actually him in a very short costume.

   * edwardk: I'm a product mostly of old Wadler monad papers and TaPL
     with some Cale thrown in.

   * benzrf: zippers are fun / they are zippy! / anyway bye

Top Reddit Stories

   * Nikki and the Robots (FOSS Haskell game) has been greenlit on Steam
     Domain: steamcommunity.com, Score: 130, Comments: 7
     Original: [1] http://goo.gl/VgbYzB
     On Reddit: [2] http://goo.gl/rsKKLn

   * So I re-implemented Freenet in Haskell, what now?
     Domain: self.haskell, Score: 85, Comments: 34
     Original: [3] http://goo.gl/yLHLD4
     On Reddit: [4] http://goo.gl/yLHLD4

   * Meditations on learning Haskell from an ex-Clojure user
     Domain: bitemyapp.com, Score: 79, Comments: 113
     Original: [5] http://goo.gl/twtYw2
     On Reddit: [6] http://goo.gl/JICvqo

   * The printer Haskell deserves
     Domain: chrisdone.com, Score: 77, Comments: 24
     Original: [7] http://goo.gl/x8VL1J
     On Reddit: [8] http://goo.gl/AvMuIo

   * Erik Meijer: The Curse of the Excluded Middle
     Domain: queue.acm.org, Score: 76, Comments: 93
     Original: [9] http://goo.gl/QbpX9M
     On Reddit: [10] http://goo.gl/IpliOH

   * My road to Haskell
     Domain: alfredodinapoli.com, Score: 74, Comments: 40
     Original: [11] http://goo.gl/6oHuNf
     On Reddit: [12] http://goo.gl/7ER3JC

   * The Identity monad trick
     Domain: chrisdone.com, Score: 58, Comments: 62
     Original: [13] http://goo.gl/mpL1fa
     On Reddit: [14] http://goo.gl/Z2fMeB

   * ekg 0.4 released
     Domain: blog.johantibell.com, Score: 57, Comments: 5
     Original: [15] http://goo.gl/5XZ86C
     On Reddit: [16] http://goo.gl/Ef3ShV

   * Evan Czaplicki: Stop saying "the ___ monad"
     Domain: groups.google.com, Score: 54, Comments: 56
     Original: [17] http://goo.gl/36WH0W
     On Reddit: [18] http://goo.gl/mzcSZi

   * Thinking in Types
     Domain: robots.thoughtbot.com, Score: 47, Comments: 28
     Original: [19] http://goo.gl/k4bRuD
     On Reddit: [20] http://goo.gl/G1dbac

   * Disemboweling WAI (aka gutting out conduit)
     Domain: yesodweb.com, Score: 46, Comments: 102
     Original: [21] http://goo.gl/EQ6hJi
     On Reddit: [22] http://goo.gl/CQefwI

   * GHC Status Report, May 2014
     Domain: ghc.haskell.org, Score: 44, Comments: 14
     Original: [23] http://goo.gl/UbUiIx
     On Reddit: [24] http://goo.gl/SXY310

   * What Do You Think Is Impeding Haskell From Getting Mainstream Adoption?
     Domain: forbes.com, Score: 44, Comments: 237
     Original: [25] http://goo.gl/Qn77nm
     On Reddit: [26] http://goo.gl/EIQOBr

   * Pattern Synonyms for Dates and an IRC Bot
     Domain: fpcomplete.com, Score: 43, Comments: 15
     Original: [27] http://goo.gl/LSThZm
     On Reddit: [28] http://goo.gl/sE3y6p

   * Elm 0.12.1 - Fast Immutable Arrays
     Domain: elm-lang.org, Score: 40, Comments: 6
     Original: [29] http://goo.gl/rbo80l
     On Reddit: [30] http://goo.gl/FoC4un

   * PureScript 0.5 Released
     Domain: github.com, Score: 38, Comments: 24
     Original: [31] http://goo.gl/3cffJq
     On Reddit: [32] http://goo.gl/AtjJPK

   * Why category theory matters
     Domain: rs.io, Score: 38, Comments: 36
     Original: [33] http://goo.gl/LQCAk1
     On Reddit: [34] http://goo.gl/8xZ9bo

Top StackOverflow Questions

   * What is a good reason to use a type signature for functions when the
compiler can infer the types
     votes: 14, answers: 4
     Read on SO: [35] http://goo.gl/48G9iZ

   * Difference between Monad and Applicative in Haskell
     votes: 9, answers: 5
     Read on SO: [36] http://goo.gl/dL3a4s

Until next time,
[37]+Daniel Santa Cruz

References

   1. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=107105028
   2.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/24fw5k/nikki_and_the_robots_foss_haskell_game_has_been/
   3.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/24hjak/so_i_reimplemented_freenet_in_haskell_what_now/
   4.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/24hjak/so_i_reimplemented_freenet_in_haskell_what_now/
   5.
http://bitemyapp.com/posts/2014-04-29-meditations-on-learning-haskell.html
   6.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/24adiv/meditations_on_learning_haskell_from_an_exclojure/
   7. http://chrisdone.com/posts/the-printer-haskell-deserves
   8.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/246iir/the_printer_haskell_deserves/
   9. http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?ref=rss&id=2611829
  10.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/243fm4/erik_meijer_the_curse_of_the_excluded_middle/
  11.
http://www.alfredodinapoli.com/posts/2014-04-27-my-road-to-haskell.html
  12. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/246qty/my_road_to_haskell/
  13. http://chrisdone.com/posts/identity-monad
  14.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/24cq0u/the_identity_monad_trick/
  15. http://blog.johantibell.com/2014/05/ekg-04-released.html
  16. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/24g513/ekg_04_released/
  17. https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/elm-discuss/1acyOfxvasA
  18.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/24kvwh/evan_czaplicki_stop_saying_the_monad/
  19. http://robots.thoughtbot.com/thinking-in-types
  20. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/24k2wz/thinking_in_types/
  21. http://www.yesodweb.com/blog/2014/04/disemboweling-wai
  22.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/246e39/disemboweling_wai_aka_gutting_out_conduit/
  23. https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Status/May14
  24.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/246fos/ghc_status_report_may_2014/
  25.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2014/04/29/what-do-you-think-is-impeding-haskell-from-getting-mainstream-adoption/
  26.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/24ddu3/what_do_you_think_is_impeding_haskell_from/
  27. https://www.fpcomplete.com/user/icelandj/Pattern%20synonyms
  28.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/24fvyz/pattern_synonyms_for_dates_and_an_irc_bot/
  29. http://elm-lang.org/blog/announce/0.12.1.elm
  30.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/24jo48/elm_0121_fast_immutable_arrays/
  31. https://github.com/purescript/purescript/releases/tag/v0.5.0
  32.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/244z52/purescript_05_released/
  33. http://rs.io/2014/04/30/why-category-theory-matters.html
  34.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/24nhfc/why_category_theory_matters/
  35.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23401698/what-is-a-good-reason-to-use-a-type-signature-for-functions-when-the-compiler-ca
  36.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23342184/difference-between-monad-and-applicative-in-haskell
  37. https://plus.google.com/105107667630152149014/about
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