[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: October 03, 2006
Donald Bruce Stewart
dons at cse.unsw.edu.au
Tue Oct 3 04:14:24 EDT 2006
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Haskell Weekly News
http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/HWN
Issue 43 - October 03, 2006
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Welcome to issue 43 of HWN, a weekly newsletter covering developments
in the Haskell community.
The proceedings of the first Haskell Workshop are now available
online, and work has begun on a unified library for generics in
Haskell.
Announcements
* Proceedings Haskell Workshop 1995. Henrik Nilsson [1]announced
that in celebration of the 10th [2]Haskell Workshop that took
place recently, the proceedings of the very first Haskell
workshop, in La Jolla 1995, have now been made available on [3]the
Haskell Workshop home page. Thanks to Paul Hudak for help locating
the proceedings and arranging for them to be scanned into PDF.
1. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/14312/
2. http://haskell.org/haskell-workshop
3. http://haskell.org/haskell-workshop/1995
* Common library for generic programming. Johan Jeuring and Andres
Loeh [4]announced an initiative to design a common library for
generic programming, which should work together with most of the
Haskell compilers, and for which they hope to guarantee support
for generics in Haskell into the future. If you want to get
involved (or just want to see the discussion), you can subscribe
to [5]the generics mailing list. Check the [6]Haskell research
wiki for some background on generics.
4. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/14304/
5. http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/generics
6. http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Research_papers/Generics
* GHC 6.6 Second Release Candidate. Ian Lynagh [7]announced that the
Second Release Candidate phase for GHC 6.6 is underway. Get
testing!
7. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.glasgow.user/10823
* Lazy functional language for the JVM. Luke Evans [8]announced that
the research group at Business Objects has developed a lazily
evaluated, strongly-typed language called CAL, with many
similarities to Haskell, targeting the JVM, to facilitate
representing certain kinds of business logic as reusable,
composable pieces.
8. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/14296/
Haskell'
This section covers the [9]Haskell' standardisation process.
* [10]Pattern guards
* [11]Improving pattern guard syntax
9. http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime
10. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.prime/1680/focus=1680
11. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.prime/1704
Discussion
* Typeclass versus Prolog programming. Oleg Kiselyov [12]wrote
further on the connection between typeclass hacking and logic
programming.
12. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/15401/
* Irrefutable patterns for existential types. Several Haskellers
[13]discussed, in a long thread, issues relating to irrefutable
patterns when combined with existentials or GADTs. [14]Read more.
13. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/15564/
14. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/15633/
* GHC on the Mac. Simon Peyton-Jones [15]sought contributors to help
maintain [16]GHC on the Mac.
15. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.glasgow.user/10801/
16. http://haskell.org/ghc
* Smallest Double. Tamas Papp [17]initiated a thread regarding
finding the smallest Double such that 1+x /= x, for a numerics
problem.
17. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/15573/focus=15573
* Migrating content to the new wiki. Ian Lynagh [18]forced an action
to finally close down the old hawiki, and move all content to the
new haskell wiki. Work to be done is [19]here.
18. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/14314
19. http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/HaWiki_migration
Blog noise
Haskell news from the blogosphere.
* [20]Functional programming for the rest of us
* [21]Coming soon: Perl 6
* [22]Arrows, like monads, are monoids
* [23]OOP is dead
20. http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/fp.html
21. http://www.samag.com/documents/s=10093/sam0609j/0609j.htm
22. http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1750
23. http://kawagner.blogspot.com/2006/08/oop-is-dead-part-2.html
Quotes of the Week
* Bill Wood: It became obvious that when a Prolog program is tuned
by removing non-determinism it moves towards a functional program.
* Bjarne Stroustrup: Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone
because programmers get bored. [S 9.4 of C++, 2nd edition]
* Hamilton Richards: It's fair to say that functional programming
requires a very different mind-set, but once you've mad e the
`jump`, programming in conventional languages feels like doing
arithmetic in Roman numerals.
* Larry Wall: Take Lisp, you know it's the most beautiful language
in the world -- at least up until Haskell came along.
* dons: Welcome to computer science, we count from 0.
* glguy: This is like Web 5GL. I like it!
* sjanssen: Quoth the Prelude, Chapter 6, verse 4: Yeah verily shall
repeat floweth cons cells over.
Code Watch
* Fri Sep 29 09:07:17 PDT 2006 simonpj. Remove Linear Implicit
Parameters, and all their works. Linear implicit parameters have
been in GHC quite a while, but we decided they were a mis-feature
and scheduled them for removal. This patch does the job.
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