[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 138 - November 07, 2009
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Haskell Weekly News
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Issue 138 - November 07, 2009
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Welcome to issue 138 of HWN, a newsletter covering developments in the
[1]Haskell community.
Lots of discussion about [2]Clean this week. As well there was a new
DSL, feldspar, announced. It deals with digital signal processing
applications.
Announcements
MonadRandom-0.1.4. Brent Yorgey [3]announced a new version of
MonadRandom which adds applicative instances for Rand and RantT, so you
can write your code in applicative style.
Criterion 0.2, an improved Haskell benchmarking library. Bryan
O'Sullivan [4]announced a new version of Criterion, all the details of
this release are available on his [5]blog
feldspar-language. Emil Axelsson [6]announced feldspar, a DSL for
digital signal processing.
feldspar-compiler. Emil Axelsson [7]announced the C code backend for
the `feldspar` language.
fdo-notify 0.1, a client for the Desktop Notifications protocol. Max
Rabkin [8]announced a library for FreeDesktop.org's Desktop
Notifications Protocol.
language-python version 0.2 now available. Bernie Pope [9]announced a
new version of the language-python package, which provides an AST and
parser for Python 2.x-3.x (previously, only 3.x was supported).
timeplot. Eugene Kirpichov [10]announced timeplot, which is useful
visualizing log files.
Singapore FP Users Group First Meeting. Max Cantor [11]announced the
first meeting of the Singapore FP Users Group, it will be Monday,
November 2nd at 6pm.
Advgame 0.1.1. Tim Wawrzynczak [12]announced his port of Conrad
Barski's 'Casting SPELs in Lisp' to Haskell.
BlogLiterately-0.2. Robert Greayer [13]announced version 0.2 of
BlogLiterately, a simple tool for uploading posts written in markdown
and Literate Haskell to blogs.
haskell-mode 2.6. Svein Ove Aas [14]announced a bugfix release of the
Emac's Haskell mode.
Discussion
A Problem Defining a Monad instance. Petr Pudlak [15]asked about how to
defined an instance of the Monad class for a monad whose argument is
restricted by another typeclass.
Point Free Case Expressions. Sebastiaan Visser [16]suggested that a new
syntax be added for 'point-free' case expressions.
Master's thesis topic sought. Matus Tejiscak [17]asked for suggestions
for possible Master's Thesis topics.
What's the deal with Clean? Deniz Dogan [18]asked about the recent
discussion on the -cafe list about Clean, another Pure, Lazy, Strictly
Typed language.
Blog noise
[19]Haskell news from the [20]blogosphere. Blog posts from people new
to the Haskell community are marked with >>>, be sure to welcome them!
* Neil Brown: [21]Text.Printf and monad transformers.
* Bryan O'Sullivan: [22]Criterion 0.2, an improved Haskell
benchmarking library.
* Galois, Inc: [23]Tech Talk: Hoare-Logic â fiddly details and small
print.
* Gtk2HS: [24]Writing concurrent programs..
* Tom Schrijvers: [25]Postdoc/PhD Positions on the Monadic Constraint
Programming project.
* Darcs: [26]darcs weekly news #45.
* Tom Schrijvers: [27]Haskell Type Constraints unleashed.
* Luke Plant: [28]Building GHC is fun....
* Manuel M T Chakravarty: [29]Status Update of the Glasgow Haskell
Compiler, October 2009.
* Chris Smith: [30]Monads from Two Perspectives.
* Neil Brown: [31]Concurrent Testing and Tracing: Useful Output for
Test Failures.
* Dan Piponi (sigfpe): [32]Buffon's Needle, the Easy Way. Buffon's
needle is a popular probability problem. Rule lines on the floor a
distance d apart and toss a needle of length l
Quotes of the Week
* blackdog: [About Hubris] I tell the Ruby guys that Haskell will
help them speed up their Ruby code and keep their apps going, and I
tell Haskell guys that it'll Trojan Horse those poor unsuspecting
rubyists...
* lispy: Great, I leave the channel for a few hours and suddenly
Haskell has a new found work ethic.
* roconnor: ivanm: I will keep the fail in the code
* lament: just remember to ask, 'What are your questions', as opposed
to 'Do you have any questions'
* mauke: @unpl const (flip const)
lambdabot: (\ _ c d -> d)
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References
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26. http://blog.darcs.net/2009/11/darcs-weekly-news-45.html
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32. http://blog.sigfpe.com/2009/10/buffons-needle-easy-way.html
33. http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
34. http://sequence.complete.org/
35. http://planet.haskell.org/
36. http://sequence.complete.org/node/feed
37. http://haskell.org/
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