[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 162 - December 15, 2010

[Daniel Santa Cruz]

   Welcome to issue 162 of the HWN, a newsletter covering developments in
   the [1]Haskell community in the week of December 05 - 11.

   Wouter Swierstra [2]sent a call for papers for the ICFP 2011 to be held
   in Tokyo, Japan between September 19 - 21. The announcement contains
   all relevant dates of importance

   Dmitry Astapov [3]announced the realease of haskell-mpi, "a suite of
   Haskell bindings to the C MPI [Message Passing Interface] and
   convenience APIs on top of it."

   David Waern [4]annouced a new version of the venerable Haddock. "This
   version is compatible with .haddock files produced by the version of
   Haddock that comes with GHC 7.0.1."

   Michael Snoyman [5]announced the first release of his library and
   executable packdeps. "This is a library and executable containing the
   same functionality as the original packdeps website, namely letting you
   know when your version bounds exclude the use of the newest version of
   a library available."

   Michael also [6]announced the second major release of the mime-mail
   library. This "is a package providing support for rendering multipart
   emails."

   Jasper Van der Jeugt [7]announced the 0.0.2.0 release of the digestive
   functors library. "The library provides a general API to input
   consumption, and is an upgrade of formlets."

   So, what went on this week?

Top Reddit Stories

   * Cartesian Closed Comic: Résumé
     Domain: ro-che.info, Score: 35, Comments: 1
     On Reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/ekiao/cartesian_closed_comic_résumé/
     Original: http://ro-che.info/ccc/11.html

   * GHC blog: An overhaul of stack management, and some performance
improvements
     Domain: hackage.haskell.org, Score: 32, Comments: 2
     On Reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/emabe/ghc_blog_an_overhaul_of_stack_management_and_some/
     Original: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/blog/stack-chunks

   * How do You use Emacs for Haskell Development?
     Domain: self.haskell, Score: 29, Comments: 10
     On Reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/ehl99/how_do_you_use_emacs_for_haskell_development/
     Original: /r/haskell/comments/ehl99/how_do_you_use_emacs_for_haskell_development/

   * Library versus Framework: Yesod's Own World
     Domain: docs.yesodweb.com, Score: 26, Comments: 22
     On Reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/ejgen/library_versus_framework_yesods_own_world/
     Original: http://docs.yesodweb.com/blog/yesods-own-world/

   * Visualizing Haskell types part II, Gin and monotonic : Inside T5
     Domain: blog.ezyang.com, Score: 24, Comments: 2
     On Reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/eiaef/visualizing_haskell_types_part_ii_gin_and/
     Original: http://blog.ezyang.com/2010/12/gin-and-monotonic/

   * Package of the day: parallel-io: combinators for sequencing IO
actions onto a thread pool
     Domain: hackage.haskell.org, Score: 21, Comments: 15
     On Reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/ehsqo/package_of_the_day_parallelio_combinators_for/
     Original: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/parallel-io-0.2.2

   * Package of the day: haskell-mpi: Control.Parallel.MPI for high
performance parallel (cluster) computations in Haskell
     Domain: hackage.haskell.org, Score: 19, Comments: 5
     On Reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/ej5av/package_of_the_day_haskellmpi_controlparallelmpi/
     Original: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/haskell-mpi-1.0.0

   * From Polymorphism To Polytypism
     Domain: zenzike.com, Score: 19, Comments:
     On Reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/ejleb/from_polymorphism_to_polytypism/
     Original: http://zenzike.com/posts/2010-12-10-from-polymorphic-to-polytypic/

   * Hussling Haskell types into Hasse diagrams : Inside T5
     Domain: blog.ezyang.com, Score: 18, Comments:
     On Reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/eh2zw/hussling_haskell_types_into_hasse_diagrams_inside/
     Original: http://blog.ezyang.com/2010/12/hussling-haskell-types-into-hasse-diagrams/

   * Building a business with Haskell: Case Studies: Cryptol, HaLVM and Copilot
     Domain: corp.galois.com, Score: 17, Comments: 1
     On Reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/ejmwq/building_a_business_with_haskell_case_studies/
     Original: http://corp.galois.com/blog/2010/12/10/building-a-business-with-haskell-case-studies-cryptol-halvm-1.html

Top StackOverflow Questions

   * What is the benefit of purely functional data structure?
     votes: 15, answers: 4
     Read on SO:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4399837/what-is-the-benefit-of-purely-functional-data-structure

   * Haskell: Equation Expander 1+(1+(1+(1+(…))))=∞
     votes: 9, answers: 2
     Read on SO:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4404663/haskell-equation-expander-1111

   * Pure Functional Language: Haskell
     votes: 7, answers: 6
     Read on SO:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4382223/pure-functional-language-haskell

   * How does a haskell compiler works?
     votes: 7, answers: 4
     Read on SO:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4385160/how-does-a-haskell-compiler-works

   * Haskell typeclasses and C++ template classes
     votes: 7, answers: 6
     Read on SO:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4411279/haskell-typeclasses-and-c-template-classes

   * Are there any special challenges for functional programming in an
embedded environment?
     votes: 7, answers: 1
     Read on SO:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4418617/are-there-any-special-challenges-for-functional-programming-in-an-embedded-enviro

   * Haskell: Where vs. Let
     votes: 6, answers: 3
     Read on SO: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4362328/haskell-where-vs-let

   * What are some good example haskell projects?
     votes: 6, answers: 2
     Read on SO:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4369962/what-are-some-good-example-haskell-projects

   * Program Structure — Simple Commandline To Do List App — What's
the Haskell way?
     votes: 6, answers: 2
     Read on SO:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4383512/program-structure-simple-commandline-to-do-list-app-whats-the-haskell-way

   * Learning to read haskell in english
     votes: 6, answers: 4
     Read on SO:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4393908/learning-to-read-haskell-in-english

Quotes of the Week

   * kmc: it's great how laziness lets you ignore the order of
     evaluation except all the times when it doesn't
   * tg_: I can't wait until 100 years from now when 'eating food' will
     be deprecated from our lexicon in favor of 'oming noms'
   * kmc: maybe the 9,639,482nd time we argue about C++ we will finally
     resolve the issue
   * Berengal: * ddarius liked xmonad better when it was 90 lines... *
     Berengal liked xmonad better when it was on vinyl

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   Until next time,
   Daniel Santa Cruz

References

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