[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 68 - January 05, 2008
Don Stewart
dons at galois.com
Sat Jan 5 19:20:46 EST 2008
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Haskell Weekly News
Issue 68 - January 05, 2008
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Welcome to issue 68 of HWN, a newsletter covering developments in the
[1]Haskell community.
This HWN features new releases of the GHC and nhc98 Haskell compilers,
a pre-release of darcs 2.0, several new user groups formed, and of
course, more than 100 updated and new libraries
1. http://haskell.org/
Announcements
GHC 6.8.2. The GHC Team [2]announced the release of GHC 6.8.2,
featuring optimisation improvements, improvements to ghci and fixes to
standalone deriving.
2. http://www.haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_682.html
nhc98 1.2 released. Malcolm Wallace [3]announced the release of nhc98
1.2. 1.20 is a refreshed release with many of the current core library
packages included, and a variety of small bugfixes since the last
release. It successfully compiles and runs more programs from the
nobench suite than jhc, hbc, Hugs, or yhc. It generates an interpreted
bytecode that, on the whole runs faster than that generated by Hugs or
yhc, and in many cases is also faster than ghci. Although nhc98 is
written in Haskell, you don't need an existing Haskell compiler on
your platform to build nhc98 - a C compiler will do. Hence, it is
portable to almost any unix-like machine with a 32-bit compatibility
mode. Many useful build tools come included: hmake (the inspiration
for ghc --make), hi (interactive read-eval-print, like Hugs or ghci),
cpphs (Haskell-aware replacement for cpp) and hsc2hs (preprocessor for
FFI code)
3. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/15770
darcs 2.0.0pre2. David Roundy [4]announced the availability of the
second prerelease of [5]darcs two, darcs 2.0.0pre2. This release fixes
several severe performance bugs that were present in the first
prerelease. These issues were identified and fixed thanks to the
helpful testing of Simon Marlow and Peter Rockai. We also added
support for compilation under ghc 6.4, so even more users should be
able to test this release.
4. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/33483
5. http://darcs.net/
The Monad.Reader Issue 9: SoC special. Wouter Swierstra [6]announced a
new issue of The Monad.Reader, a 'Summer of Code Special' - it
consists of three articles from student participants of Google's
Summer of Code, describing the projects they worked on.
6. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/31848
What's happening with Haskell? The 13th HCAR. Andres Loeh [7]announced
the 13th edition of the Haskell Communities and Activities Report
7. http://www.haskell.org/communities/
Teach yourself gtk2hs in 21 hours. Hans van Thiel [8]announced a
Gtk2Hs basics tutorial, based on the Tony Gale and Ian Main GTK+2.0
tutorial, is now available for review and comment.
8. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/32671
Minimalistic Haskell blog framework. Paul Brown [9]announced a
lightweight, experimental blog publishing application, [10]perpubplat
9. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/34503
10. http://datapr0n.com/repos/perpubplat
atom. Tom Hawkins [11]announced the release of atom 2007.12; atom is a
domain-specific language embedded in Haskell for describing real-time
control applications
11. http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2007-December/035742.html
Hackage
New and updated libraries in [12]the Hackage library database.
12. http://hackage.haskell.org/
* bytestring 0.9.0.4. Uploaded by DonaldStewart. [13]bytestring:
Fast, packed, strict and lazy byte arrays with a list interface.
* uuagc 0.9.5. Uploaded by ArieMiddelkoop. [14]uuagc: Attribute
Grammar System of Universiteit Utrecht.
* uulib 0.9.5. Uploaded by ArieMiddelkoop. [15]uulib: Haskell
Utrecht Tools Library.
* llvm 0.0.2. Uploaded by BryanOSullivan. [16]llvm: Bindings to the
LLVM compiler toolkit.
* HDBC-sqlite3 1.1.3.1. Uploaded by JohnGoerzen. [17]HDBC-sqlite3:
Sqlite v3 driver for HDBC.
* HDBC-odbc 1.1.3.1. Uploaded by JohnGoerzen. [18]HDBC-odbc: ODBC
driver for HDBC.
* dimensional 0.7.2. Uploaded by BjornBuckwalter. [19]dimensional:
Statically checked physical dimensions..
* uulib 0.9.5. Uploaded by ArieMiddelkoop. [20]uulib: Haskell
Utrecht Tools Library.
* hsc3 0.1. Uploaded by RohanDrape. [21]hsc3: Haskell SuperCollider.
* hosc 0.1. Uploaded by RohanDrape. [22]hosc: Haskell Open Sound
Control.
13. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/bytestring-0.9.0.4
14. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/uuagc-0.9.5
15. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/uulib-0.9.5
16. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/llvm-0.0.2
17. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/HDBC-sqlite3-1.1.3.1
18. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/HDBC-odbc-1.1.3.1
19. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/dimensional-0.7.2
20. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/uulib-0.9.5
21. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/hsc3-0.1
22. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/hosc-0.1
* GLFW 0.2. Uploaded by PaulLiu. [23]GLFW: A binding for GLFW, An
OpenGL Framework.
* control-timeout 0.1. Uploaded by AdamLangley. [24]control-timeout:
Timeout handling.
* hiccup 0.35. Uploaded by KyleConsalus. [25]hiccup: Relatively
efficient Tcl interpreter with support for basic operations.
* phooey 2.0. Uploaded by ConalElliott. [26]phooey: Functional user
interfaces.
* reactive 0.0. Uploaded by ConalElliott. [27]reactive: Simple
foundation for functional reactive programming.
* phooey 1.4. Uploaded by ConalElliott. [28]phooey: Functional user
interfaces.
* hburg 1.1.1. Uploaded by IgorBohm. [29]hburg: Haskell Bottom Up
Rewrite Generator.
* hinotify 0.2. Uploaded by LennartKolmodin. [30]hinotify: Haskell
binding to INotify.
* cabal-rpm 0.3.3. Uploaded by BryanOSullivan. [31]cabal-rpm: RPM
package builder for Haskell Cabal source packages..
* codec-libevent 0.1. Uploaded by AdamLangley. [32]codec-libevent:
Cross-platform structure serialisation.
23. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/GLFW-0.2
24. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/control-timeout-0.1
25. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/hiccup-0.35
26. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/phooey-2.0
27. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/reactive-0.0
28. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/phooey-1.4
29. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/hburg-1.1.1
30. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/hinotify-0.2
31. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/cabal-rpm-0.3.3
32. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/codec-libevent-0.1
* irc 0.4. Uploaded by TrevorElliott. [33]irc: A small library for
parsing IRC messages..
* dlist 0.4. Uploaded by DonaldStewart. [34]dlist: Differences
lists.
* AutoForms 0.4.0. Uploaded by MadsLindstroem. [35]AutoForms: GUI
library based upon generic programming (SYB3).
* bktrees 0.2.1. Uploaded by JosefSvenningsson. [36]bktrees: A set
data structure with approximate searching.
* bktrees 0.2. Uploaded by JosefSvenningsson. [37]bktrees: A set
data structure with approximate searching.
* binary-strict 0.1. Uploaded by AdamLangley. [38]binary-strict:
Binary deserialisation using strict ByteStrings.
* haddock 0.9. Uploaded by SimonMarlow. [39]haddock: Haddock is a
documentation-generation tool for Haskell libraries.
* bytestring-mmap 0.2.0. Uploaded by DonaldStewart.
[40]bytestring-mmap: mmap support for strict ByteStrings.
* bytestring 0.9.0.3. Uploaded by DonaldStewart. [41]bytestring:
Fast, packed, strict and lazy byte arrays with a list interface.
* hiccup 0.3. Uploaded by KyleConsalus. [42]hiccup: Added by
KyleConsalus, Wed Dec 19 17:00:42 PST 2007..
33. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/irc-0.4
34. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/dlist-0.4
35. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/AutoForms-0.4.0
36. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/bktrees-0.2.1
37. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/bktrees-0.2
38. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/binary-strict-0.1
39. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/haddock-0.9
40. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/bytestring-mmap-0.2.0
41. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/bytestring-0.9.0.3
42. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/hiccup-0.3
* cedict 0.1.1. Uploaded by JasonDusek. [43]cedict: Convenient
Chinese character lookup..
* TypeCompose 0.3. Uploaded by ConalElliott. [44]TypeCompose: Type
composition classes & instances.
* bytestring-mmap 0.1.2. Uploaded by DonaldStewart.
[45]bytestring-mmap: mmap support for strict ByteStrings.
* bytestring 0.9.0.2. Uploaded by DonaldStewart. [46]bytestring:
Fast, packed, strict and lazy byte arrays with a list interface.
* bytestring-mmap 0.1.1. Uploaded by DonaldStewart.
[47]bytestring-mmap: mmap support for strict ByteStrings.
* mkcabal 0.3. Uploaded by DonaldStewart. [48]mkcabal: Generate
cabal files for a Haskell project.
* terminfo 0.1. Uploaded by Judah Jacobson. [49]terminfo: Haskell
bindings to the terminfo library..
* Cabal 1.2.3.0. Uploaded by Duncan Coutts. [50]Cabal: A framework
for packaging Haskell software.
* hxt 7.4. Uploaded by UweSchmidt. [51]hxt: A collection of tools
for processing XML with Haskell..
* X11 1.4.1. Uploaded by Spencer Janssen. [52]X11: A binding to the
X11 graphics library.
43. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/cedict-0.1.1
44. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/TypeCompose-0.3
45. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/bytestring-mmap-0.1.2
46. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/bytestring-0.9.0.2
47. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/bytestring-mmap-0.1.1
48. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/mkcabal-0.3
49. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/terminfo-0.1
50. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/Cabal-1.2.3.0
51. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/hxt-7.4
52. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/X11-1.4.1
* dataenc 0.10.1. Uploaded by Magnus Therning. [53]dataenc: Data
encoding library currently providing Uuencode, Base64, Base64Url,
Base32, Base32Hex, and Base16..
* bytestringreadp 0.1. Uploaded by Gracjan Polak.
[54]bytestringreadp: A ReadP style parser library for ByteString.
* encoding 0.3. Uploaded by HenningGuenther. [55]encoding: A library
for various character encodings.
* hslua 0.2. Uploaded by Gracjan Polak. [56]hslua: A Lua language
interpreter embedding in Haskell.
* xmonad-contrib 0.5. Uploaded by Spencer Janssen.
[57]xmonad-contrib: Third party extensions for xmonad.
* xmonad 0.5. Uploaded by SpencerJanssen. [58]xmonad: A tiling
window manager.
* pandoc 0.45. Uploaded by John MacFarlane. [59]pandoc: Conversion
between markup formats.
* markov-chain 0.0.1. Uploaded by Henning Thielemann.
[60]markov-chain: Markov Chains for generating random sequences
with a user definable behaviour..
* parsedate 3000.0.0. Uploaded by Bjorn Bringert. [61]parsedate:
Data and time parsing for CalendarTime.
* hackage2hwn 0.1. Uploaded by Don Stewart. [62]hackage2hwn: Convert
hackage = Hackage RSS feeds to Haskell Weekly News format.
53. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/dataenc-0.10.1
54. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/bytestringreadp-0.1
55. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/encoding-0.3
56. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/hslua-0.2
57. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/xmonad-contrib-0.5
58. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/xmonad-0.5
59. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/pandoc-0.45
60. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/markov-chain-0.0.1
61. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/parsedate-3000.0.0
62. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/hackage2hwn-0.1
* hask-home 2007.12.6. Uploaded by BjornBringert. [63]hask-home:
Generate homepages for cabal packages.
* hmarkup 3000.0.1. Uploaded by BjornBringert. [64]hmarkup: Simple
wikitext-like markup format implementation..
* hspread 0.2. Uploaded by AndreaVezzosi. [65]hspread: A client
library for the spread toolkit.
* pcap 0.4.2. Uploaded by BryanOSullivan. [66]pcap: A
system-independent interface for user-level packet capture.
* hogg 0.3.0. Uploaded by ConradParker. [67]hogg: Library and tools
to manipulate the Ogg container format.
* Finance-Quote-Yahoo 0.4.1. Uploaded by BradClawsie.
[68]Finance-Quote-Yahoo: Obtain quote data from finance.yahoo.com.
* Monadius 0.9.20071204. Uploaded by GwernBranwen. [69]Monadius: 2-D
arcade scroller.
* Shu-thing 1.0.20071203. Uploaded by GwernBranwen. [70]Shu-thing: A
vector shooter game.
* hmatrix 0.1.1.0. Uploaded by AlbertoRuiz. [71]hmatrix: Linear
algebra and numerical computations.
* HTTP 3001.0.3. Uploaded by BjornBringert. [72]HTTP: Added by
BjornBringert, Fri Nov 30 14:50:55 PST 2007..
63. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/hask-home-2007.12.6
64. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/hmarkup-3000.0.1
65. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/hspread-0.2
66. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/pcap-0.4.2
67. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/hogg-0.3.0
68. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/Finance-Quote-Yahoo-0.4.1
69. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/Monadius-0.9.20071204
70. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/Shu-thing-1.0.20071203
71. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/hmatrix-0.1.1.0
72. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/HTTP-3001.0.3
* rss 3000.0.1. Uploaded by BjornBringert. [73]rss: A library for
generating RSS 2.0 feeds..
* haxr 3000.0.1. Uploaded by BjornBringert. [74]haxr: XML-RPC client
and server library..
* fitsio 0.1. Uploaded by EricSessoms. [75]fitsio: A library for
reading and writing data files in the FITS data format..
* YamlReference 0.6. Uploaded by Oren Ben Kiki. [76]YamlReference,
YAML reference implementation
* LambdaShell 0.9.1. Uploaded by Robert Dockins. [77]LambdaShell,
simple shell for evaluating lambda expressions
* Shellac 0.9.1. Uploaded by Robert Dockins. [78]Shellac, a
framework for creating shell envinronments
* EdisonCore 1.2.1.1. Uploaded by Robert Dockins. [79]EdisonCore, a
library of efficent, purely-functional data structures (Core
Implementations)
* hmatrix 0.1.0.0. Uploaded by Alberto Ruiz. [80]hmatrix, linear
algebra and numerical computations
* strict-concurrency 0.1. Uploaded by Don Stewart.
[81]strict-concurrency, strict concurrency abstractions
* X11 1.4.0. Uploaded by Don Stewart. [82]X11, binding to the X11
graphics library
73. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/rss-3000.0.1
74. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/haxr-3000.0.1
75. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/fitsio-0.1
76. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/YamlReference-0.6
77. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/LambdaShell-0.9.1
78. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/Shellac-0.9.1
79. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/EdisonCore-1.2.1.1
80. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/hmatrix-0.1.0.0
81. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/strict-concurrency-0.1
82. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/X11-1.4.0
* safecopy 0.3. Uploaded by David Himmelstrup. [83]safecopy, binary
serialization with version control
* HaXml 1.13.3. Uploaded by Malcolm Wallace. [84]HaXml, utilities
for manipulating XML documents
* c2hs 0.15.1. Uploaded by Duncan Coutts. [85]c2hs, C->Haskell
Interface Generator
* calc 0.1. Uploaded by Austin Seipp. [86]calc, small compiler for
arithmetic expressions.
* miniplex 0.2.1. Uploaded by Lukas Mai. [87]miniplex, simple 1-to-N
interprocess communication
* sat 1.1.1. Uploaded by Andrii Zvorygin. [88]sat, CNF SATisfier
* dimensional 0.7.1. Uploaded by Bjorn Buckwalter. [89]dimensional,
statically checked physical dimensions
* hxt 7.4. Uploaded by Uwe Schmidt. [90]hxt, collection of tools for
processing XML with Haskell.
* dlist 0.3.2. Uploaded by Don Stewart. [91]dlist, difference lists.
A list type supporting fast append.
* mkcabal 0.2. Uploaded by Don Stewart. [92]mkcabal, generate cabal
files for a Haskell project
83. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/safecopy-0.3
84. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/HaXml-1.13.3
85. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/c2hs-0.15.1
86. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/calc-0.1
87. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/miniplex-0.2.1
88. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/sat-1.1.1
89. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/dimensional-0.7.1
90. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/hxt-7.4
91. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/dlist-0.3.2
92. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/mkcabal-0.2
* Chart 0.5. Uploaded by Tim Docker. [93]Chart, a library for
generating 2D Charts and Plots
* MaybeT 0.1.1. Uploaded by Don Stewart. [94]MaybeT, MaybeT monad
transformer
* regex-pcre 0.93. Uploaded by Chris Kuklewicz. [95]regex-pcre,
replaces Text.Regex
* fixpoint 0.1. Uploaded by Roman Leshchinskiy. [96]fixpoint, data
types as fixpoints
* ChasingBottoms 1.2.2. Uploaded by Nils Anders Danielsson.
[97]ChasingBottoms, support for testing partial and infinite
values
* GrowlNotify 0.3. Uploaded by Nicholas Burlett. [98]GrowlNotify,
notification utility for Growl
* pcap 0.4.1. Uploaded by Bryan OSullivan. [99]pcap, a
system-independent interface for user-level packet capture
* bencode 0.3. Uploaded by David Himmelstrup. [100]bencode, parser
and printer for bencoded data.
* stream-fusion 0.1.1. Uploaded by Don Stewart. [101]stream-fusion,
provides the standard Haskell list library reimplemented to allow
stream fusion. This should in general provide faster list
operations, and faster code for list-heavy programs.
* HTTP 3001.0.2. Uploaded by Bjorn Bringert. [102]HTTP, library for
client-side HTTP
93. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/Chart-0.5
94. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/MaybeT-0.1.1
95. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/regex-pcre-0.93
96. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/fixpoint-0.1
97. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/ChasingBottoms-1.2.2
98. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/GrowlNotify-0.3
99. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/pcap-0.4.1
100. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/bencode-0.3
101. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/stream-fusion-0.1.1
102. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/HTTP-3001.0.2
* X11-xft 0.2. Uploaded by Clemens Fruhwirth. [103]X11-xft, bindings
to the Xft, X Free Type interface library, and some Xrender parts
* GrowlNotify 0.1. Uploaded by Nicholas Burlett. [104]GrowlNotify,
notification utility for Growl.
* HsHaruPDF 0.0.0. Uploaded by Audrey Tang. [105]HsHaruPDF, Haskell
binding to libharu
* unicode-normalization 0.1. Uploaded by Reinier Lamers.
[106]unicode-normalization, Unicode normalization using the ICU
library
* uniplate 1.0.1. Uploaded by Neil Mitchell. [107]uniplate, uniform
type generic traversals
* lax-0.0.0. Uploaded by Wolfgang Jeltsch. [108]lax, Lax arrows are
variants of other arrows which are ?less strict? than the original
arrows. They can be used, for example, to produce I/O fixpoints in
situations where fixIO would fail.
* fastcgi 3001.0.1. Uploaded by Bjorn Bringert. [109]fastcgi, a
Haskell library for writing FastCGI programs
103. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/X11-xft-0.2
104. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/GrowlNotify-0.1
105. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/HsHaruPDF-0.0.0
106. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/unicode-normalization-0.1
107. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/uniplate-1.0.1
108. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/lax-0.0.0
109. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/fastcgi-3001.0.1
Conference roundup
New user groups
* [110]Portland Functional Programmers Group
* [111]FPSIG @ Southampton
* [112]SingHaskell
110. http://groups.google.com/group/pdxfunc
111. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/32753
112. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/32268
Jobs
Prototyping. Peter Verswyvelen [113]announced a job using Haskell for
prototyping computer animation and games
113. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/33377
Blog noise
[114]Haskell news from the [115]blogosphere.
114. http://planet.haskell.org/
115. http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Blog_articles
* [116]Small shots of lambda calculus
* [117]Pattern Matching in Ruby
* [118]Haskell 'words' and Perl 'split'
* [119]Word numbers, Part 4: Sort the words, sum the numbers
* [120]Improve Your C#! Borrow from F#...
* [121]Sun battling Microsoft (over F#?)
* [122]zip in F# and Haskell
* [123]Random numbers in Haskell
* [124]A survey of Haskell unicode support
* [125]Using Haskell for scripting tasks
116. http://fmota.tk/2007/11/small-shots-of-lambda-calculus-part-iii.html
117. http://blog.pretheory.com/arch/2007/11/pattern_matching_in_ruby_1.php
118. http://osfameron.vox.com/library/post/haskell-words-and-perl-split.html
119. http://conway.rutgers.edu/~ccshan/wiki/blog/posts/WordNumbers4/
120. http://diditwith.net/2007/11/14/ImproveYourCBorrowFromF.aspx
121. http://vanirsystems.com/danielsblog/?p=227
122. http://jyliao.blogspot.com/2007/11/learning-wpf-with-f-dock-and-grid.html
123. http://monadicheadaches.blogspot.com/2007/11/random-numbers-where-it-all-started.html
124. http://blog.kfish.org/2007/10/survey-haskell-unicode-support.html
125. http://pinderkent.blogsavy.com/archives/142
* [126]Princeton lost the DARPA Grand Challenge because of a C# memory leak
* [127]Laziness in C#/LINQ
* [128]Getting functional programming: currying
* [129]The magic foldr
* [130]Nested Parallel List Comprehensions
* [131]FFI in Haskell
* [132]Broadening ones horizons
* [133]Monad Wars - 1: the Prompt
* [134]Monad Wars - 2: the command line
* [135]Holy Shmoly, GHC Haskell 6.8 smokes Python and Ruby away!
126. http://www.codeproject.com/showcase/IfOnlyWedUsedANTSProfiler.asp
127. http://gavinbierman.blogspot.com/2007/11/laziness-in-clinq.html
128. http://overwatering.blogspot.com/2007/11/currying.html
129. http://caos.di.uminho.pt/~ulisses/blog/2007/11/20/foldr-the-magic-function/
130. http://tomschrijvers.blogspot.com/2007/11/nested-parallel-list-comprehensions.html
131. http://notes-on-haskell.blogspot.com/2007/02/ffi-in-haskell.html
132. http://ms-os.com/showthread.php?t=116050
133. http://osfameron.vox.com/library/post/monad-wars---1-the-prompt.html
134. http://osfameron.vox.com/library/post/monad-wars---2-the-command-line.html
135. http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/blog/2007/11/29#smoking
* [136]Use those extra cores and beat C today! (Parallel Haskell redux)
* [137]Parallelizing Haskell
* [138]Python, Haskell, Ruby Smackdown
* [139]Legitimate uses of micro-benchmarks: parameter passing and function call costs
* [140]Holy Shmoly, GHC does some magic all by itself!
* [141]PARE - PARallel Execution in Erlang - a response to Haskell
* [142]Haskell design patterns are (probably) needed
* [143]Deriving a Virtual Machine
* [144]Games, cores, and functional languages
* [145]Structure of a functional Java, er, method
136. http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/blog/2007/11/29#smoking-4core
137. http://cmssphere.blogspot.com/2007/11/parallelizing-haskell.html
138. http://feedingthesnake.wordpress.com/2007/11/30/python-haskell-ruby-smackdown/
139. http://eigenclass.org/hiki/legitimate-microbenchmarks
140. http://geekrant.wordpress.com/2007/11/29/holy-shmoly-ghc-does-some-magic-all-by-itself/
141. http://chlorophil.blogspot.com/2007/11/pare-parallel-execution-in-erlang.html
142. http://jpmoresmau.blogspot.com/2007/11/haskell-design-patterns-are-probably.html
143. http://www.iis.sinica.edu.tw/~scm/?p=42
144. http://www.antipode.ca/2007/games-cores-and-functional-languages/
145. http://jpmoresmau.blogspot.com/2007/11/structure-of-functional-java-er-method.html
* [146]Current Fixation: Haskell
* [147]Multicores, F# and SPJ: leading people to Haskell
* [148]The IO Monad for People who Simply Don't Care
* [149]Why I chose to learn Haskell
* [150]Some Playing with Derivatives
* [151]Solve Ball Clock Puzzle in Python and Haskell
* [152]Back to functional languages... at least for a while?
* [153]Overloading Semicolon, or, monads from 10,000 Feet
* [154]Getting started with Haskell
* [155]Arrows first encounter
146. http://onerousmachinations.blogspot.com/2007/11/current-fixation-haskell.html
147. http://nxtgenug.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!59F714755D6E2A69!221.entry
148. http://sigfpe.blogspot.com/2007/11/io-monad-for-people-who-simply-dont.html
149. http://offthelip.org/?p=91
150. http://cdsmith.wordpress.com/2007/11/29/some-playing-with-derivatives/
151. http://the-little-haskeller.blogspot.com/2007/11/solve-ball-clock-puzzle-in-python-and.html
152. http://afurtado1980.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!63514833CE40C143!518.entry
153. http://osteele.com/archives/2007/12/overloading-semicolon
154. http://talkingcode.co.uk/2007/12/03/getting-started-with-haskell/
155. http://monadicheadaches.blogspot.com/2007/12/arrows-first-encounter.html
* [156]Arithmetic for lists
* [157]Functional Programming on .NET - Part 1
* [158]N-Queens in Haskell
* [159]N-Queens in the writer monad
* [160]Unit testing in Haskell
* [161]Calculating the reflect-rotate-translate normal form for an isometry of the plane in Haskell, and verifying it with QuickCheck
* [162]Visualizing 2D convex hull using Gtk and OpenGL in Haskell
* [163]Hugs for the Nintendo DS
* [164]Comparative terseness of Perl and Haskell
* [165]Note on point-free programming style
156. http://wadler.blogspot.com/2007/12/arithmetic-for-lists.html
157. http://zerogradient.wordpress.com/2007/12/05/functional-programming-on-net-part-1/
158. http://therning.org/magnus/archives/330
159. http://cdsmith.wordpress.com/2007/12/09/some-basic-stuff-the-writer-monad/
160. http://hitesh-jasani.blogspot.com/2007/12/unit-testing-with-hunit-in-haskell.html
161. http://www.kennknowles.com/blog/2007/12/03/calculating-the-reflect-rotate-translate-normal-form-for-an-isometry-of-the-plane-in-haskell-and-verifying-it-with-quickcheck/
162. http://www.kennknowles.com/blog/2007/11/20/visualizing-2d-convex-hull-using-gtk-and-opengl-in-haskell/
163. http://closuretohome.blogspot.com/2007/12/hugs-for-nintendo-ds.html
164. http://blog.plover.com/2007/11/30/#pow-sqrt
165. http://blog.plover.com/prog/haskell/pointfree.html
* [166]Haskell Fibonacci Revisited
* [167]PXSL Tools 1.0: Your ticket out of XML Hell
* [168]Haskell is kind of cool
* [169]Learning Haskell with ProjectEuler
* [170]Infinite lazy Knuth-Bendix completion for monoids in Haskell
* [171]Hugs for the Nintendo DS
* [172]My Type of Language...
* [173]Catching pods with hpodder
* [174]Hamming's problem
* [175]Sharper function operators
166. http://chasethedevil.blogspot.com/2007/12/haskell-fibonacci-revisited.html
167. http://blog.moertel.com/articles/2007/12/17/pxsl-tools-1-0-your-ticket-out-of-xml-hell
168. http://www.goesping.org/archives/2007/12/18/haskell-is-kind-of-cool/
169. http://www.robdickerson.net/?p=12
170. http://www.kennknowles.com/blog/2007/12/20/infinite-lazy-knuth-bendix-completion-for-monoids-in-haskell/
171. http://blog.closuretohome.com/2007/12/hugs-for-nintendo-ds.html
172. http://lambdalounge.blogspot.com/2007/12/my-type-of-language.html
173. http://lorenzod8n.wordpress.com/2007/12/22/catching-pods-with-hpodder/
174. http://conway.rutgers.edu/~ccshan/wiki/blog/posts/Hamming/
175. http://blog.closuretohome.com/2008/01/sharper-function-operators.html
* [176]Xiangqiboard: play Xiangqi against a computer opponent
* [177]Haskell is kind of cool
* [178]FParsec - A Parser Combinator Library for F#
* [179]RSA-Haskell
* [180]LLVM bindings for Haskell
* [181]perpubplat 0.9 - You're Looking at It: blog framework for Haskell
* [182]The point of pointfree
* [183]qtHaskell
* [184]Web Objects and the underappreciated recursive do
* [185]Equality operators in PHP and Haskell
176. http://xiangqiboard.blogspot.com/2007/12/gnuxiangqi-angekndigt.html
177. http://www.goesping.org/archives/2007/12/18/haskell-is-kind-of-cool/
178. http://www.quanttec.com/fparsec/
179. http://netsuperbrain.com/rsa-haskell.html
180. http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2008/01/03/llvm-bindings-for-haskell/
181. http://mult.ifario.us/p/perpubplat-0-9-you-re-looking-at-it
182. http://www.vex.net/~trebla/weblog/pointfree.html
183. http://qthaskell.sourceforge.net/
184. http://www.alpheccar.org/en/posts/show/89
185. http://www.syntaxpolice.org/index.php/?q=node%2F419
* [186]Pushing Haskell's type system to the limits: A reflective JSON serializer
* [187]A Wake Up Call for the Logic Programming Community
* [188]Design your functions for partial application
* [189]Taxicab Numbers
* [190]Composing Contracts
* [191]HTTP content-type comparison at the type level
* [192]Haskell-Join-Rules
* [193]Exploring JPEG
* [194]What's interesting to me about SquirrelMail attack
* [195]Haskell and F#: Language Design
186. http://lingnerd.blogspot.com/2007/12/pushing-haskells-type-system-to-limits.html
187. http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~dtai/projects/ALP/newsletter/dec07/content/Articles/tom/content.html
188. http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2007/12/26/design-your-functions-for-partial-application/
189. http://notes-on-haskell.blogspot.com/2007/12/taxicab-numbers.html
190. http://contracts.scheming.org/
191. http://www.alpheccar.org/en/posts/show/88
192. http://taichi.ddns.comp.nus.edu.sg/taichiwiki/HaskellJoinRules
193. http://www.imperialviolet.org/binary/jpeg/
194. http://www.syntaxpolice.org/index.php/?q=node%2F418
195. http://corsis.blogspot.com/2008/01/haskell-and-f-language-design.html
* [196]An example of Haskell's beauty
* [197]My resolve to learn Haskell has become stronger after having watched 'A Taste of Haskell'
* [198]Emacs love w/ Haskell
* [199]Finding my way
* [200]Why not Scala?
* [201]A Different Kind of Obscurity
* [202]Languages that save you some typing
196. http://blog.whoop.as/?p=1668
197. http://rmathew.blogspot.com/2008/01/taste-of-haskell.html
198. http://blog.whoop.as/?p=1665
199. http://nointernalmonologue.blogspot.com/2008/01/finding-my-way.html
200. http://unenterprise.blogspot.com/2008/01/why-not-scala.html
201. http://ddvlad.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/a-different-kind-of-obscurity/
202. http://daltonic.blogspot.com/2008/01/language-that-saves-you-some-typing.html
Quotes of the Week
* Conal: For me, the heart of functional programming is exactly this
separation between model and presentation. The former is naturally
functional and compositional, while the latter is often
imperative/sequential and not-so-compositional. IO belongs with
the latter.
* ddarius: has programmed too much in Haskell. He now produces code
that -compiles- and works the first time
* disspy: If all you know is C, everything begins to look like a
segmentation fault.
* markedtrees: (On the city of Haskell) Ah yes, Haskell. Where all
the types are strong, all the men carry arrows, and all the
children are above average.
* ola-bini: Haskell's type system is really nice, for example, but
OCaml's really feels like half of it exists just to cover up holes
in the other half, I'm half way into Erlang, but for several
reasons the language feels very primitive.
* so1i.warazd: I'm more and more comfortable spending time with
Haskell these days. Haskell may not be the next thing, but
whatever the next big thing is, it's probably going to have
Haskelly fingerprints all over it?..
* sylvan: think that the perceived difficulty in using purely
functional programming is probably a bit exaggerated these days,
as all it means is 'we're explicit about where side effects occur'
* falvo: I really wish that someone would come up with a type-safe
replacement for the likes of Python. Oh, wait, it's called
Haskell! Unfortunately, I'm forbidden from using Haskell at work.
Sigh
* Tyler Spaulding: eventually even 'simple' programs will nned
multiple threads. Does that mean developers will suddenly flock to
Haskell? Again, no. Language designers are well aware of the
situation. Sun and Microsoft are constantly working on improving
the Java and .NET frameworks. And by the time the average
programmer needs it, both will have plenty of support for easy
threading
* ricky clarkson: Haskell is full of Aha and Hah moments for me
* five9a2: Concurrency aside, I find it common to write Haskell code
that is as fast as C. It is true that for most things, the C can
be tweaked to go a bit faster, but that tweaking needs to be done
on a case-by-case basis. In Haskell, it is easier to compose
optimized components. Better algorithms beat an optimized compiler
any day and using the best algorithms everywhere in C code tends
to be painful, error-prone, and usually disparaged as premature
optimization.
* Jeff Moser: It's been this fear of skills rot that has pushed me
to look into Lisp, Haskell, F#, Erlang, and other languages to
avoid The Blub Paradox.
* NFJS 2008 predictions: If you've never programmed in Haskell,
now's a good time to learn, because those concepts and syntax are
fast making their way towards you...
* The honey monster: With the advent of multi-core CPUs and the
promise of many core processors in the near future it occurrs to
me that my interest in functional programming languages could not
of happened at a more opportune time. It is not that imperative
programming languages are not as capable, merely that functional
programming languages seem to be more natural fit
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