[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: November 15, 2005

[John Goerzen]

                     Haskell Weekly News: November 15, 2005

   Greetings, and thanks for reading the 15th issue of HWN, a weekly
   newsletter for the Haskell community. Each Tuesday, new editions will be
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New Releases

     * York Haskell Compiler. Thomas Davie [3]announced the York Haskell
       Compiler project, which already has working code. Quite a few people
       chimed in with questions.

   3. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/12485

Discussion

   Making Haskell more open. Simon Peyton-Jones began a [4]long thread with
   some ideas about making Haskell more open to the wider community. The
   thread is too long to completely summarize here, and branched out in
   several directions, including a [5]discussion of the haskell.org homepage.

   4. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/12479
   5. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/12533

   Haskell users survey. John Hughes [6]wrote about a web-based survey about
   Haskell. He is encouraging everyone with an interest in Haskell to
   participate.

   6. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/12448

Darcs Corner

   Darcs 1.0.4 was [7]released this week. There are quite a few performance
   improvements, a new posthook option, manifest feature, new "darcs put"
   command, more git support, and various bugfixes.

   7. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.darcs.user/8706

Quote of the Week

   "Impossible things are delayed immediately. Miracles may take a little
   longer." -- Claus Reinke on haskell-cafe.

About Haskell Weekly News

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