[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 149 - February 08, 2010

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Haskell Weekly News
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Issue 149 - February 08, 2010
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   Welcome to issue 149 of HWN, a newsletter covering developments in the
   [1]Haskell community.

   Hello Haskellers, this week's HWN was delayed a bit in the hopes of
   making it a bit more substantial. I hate putting up thin HWNs, but of
   course this must occasionally happen. We have several new CFPs for
   workshops this week, a new benchmarking package, and some fun quotes.
   Till next week, Haskellers, your Haskell Weekly News!

Announcements

   Call for Papers: Haskell Symposium 2010. Jeremy.Gibbons [2]announced a
   call for papers for the 2010 ACM SIGPLAN Haskell Symposium 2010 in
   Baltimore, Maryland; on 30th September.

   2nd CfP: LOPSTR 2010. Temur Kutsia [3]announced a second call for
   papers for the 20th International Symposium on Logic-Based Program
   Synthesis and Transformation, being held in Hagenberg, Austria, July
   23-25, 2010 (co-located with PPDP 2010).

   PAR 2010: First CFP. Koen Claessen [4]announced a first call for papers
   for PAR'10, the Workshop on Partiality and Recursion in Interactive
   Theorem Provers.

   data-ordlist-0.2. Leon Smith [5]announced a new release of ordlist,
   including a change to the module name and bug fixes.

   progression-0.1. Neil Brown [6]announced Progression, a metalibrary
   which consolidates various existing tools for Haskell optimization
   (notably Criterion).

   HList darcs repo. Oleg He who inhabits all types, but is not _|_, has
   [7]announced a new darcs repo for HList (and OOHaskell) on
   community.haskell.org.

Discussion

   a beginner question: decorate-op-undecorate. Aran Donohue [8]asked
   about how to write a function which can 'inspect' inside a datatype.

   Translation of Haskell type classes. Enrique Martin [9]talked about
   some experiments he's done with type classes, and asked some questions
   regarding optimization related to them.

   Category Theory woes. Mark Spezzano [10]asked about resources for
   learning about category theory.

Blog noise

   [11]Haskell news from the [12]blogosphere. Blog posts from people new
   to the Haskell community are marked with >>>, be sure to welcome them!
     * Dan Piponi (sigfpe): [13]The Categorification of the Naturals.
     * Roman Cheplyaka: [14]hledger.
     * Luke Palmer: [15]Associative Alpha Blending.
     * Neil Brown: [16]Progression: Supporting Optimisation in Haskell.
     * Holumbus: [17]Hayoo! Webservice API.
     * apfelmus: [18]The Operational Monad Tutorial.
     * Dan Piponi (sigfpe): [19]Tagging Monad Transformer Layers.
     * Darcs: [20]darcs weekly news #53.
     * JP Moresmau: [21]EclipseFP 1.110 released, with debugging support.

Quotes of the Week

     * lispy|web: This curses binding appears to be terminally broken
     * lispy: I did, 'cabal install mage' and it complains about curses
     * lament: Just use fix to find the least funny joke
     * copumpkin: A monad is just a lax functor from a terminal
       bicategory, duh. fuck that monoid in category of endofunctors shit

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References

   1. http://haskell.org/
   2. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/17778
   3. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/17770
   4. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/17769
   5. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/70035
   6. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/69929
   7. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/69898
   8. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/69984
   9. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/69914
  10. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/69803
  11. http://planet.haskell.org/
  12. http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Blog_articles
  13. http://blog.sigfpe.com/2010/02/decategorification-of-naturals.html
  14. http://ro-che.blogspot.com/2010/02/hledger.html
  15. http://lukepalmer.wordpress.com/2010/02/05/associative-alpha-blending/
  16. http://chplib.wordpress.com/2010/02/04/progression-supporting-optimisation-in-haskell/
  17. http://holumbus.fh-wedel.de/blog/?p=33
  18. http://apfelmus.nfshost.com/articles/operational-monad.html
  19. http://blog.sigfpe.com/2010/02/tagging-monad-transformer-layers.html
  20. http://blog.darcs.net/2010/02/darcs-weekly-news-53.html
  21. http://jpmoresmau.blogspot.com/2010/02/eclipsefp-1110-released-with-debugging.html
  22. http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
  23. http://sequence.complete.org/
  24. http://planet.haskell.org/
  25. http://sequence.complete.org/node/feed
  26. http://haskell.org/
  27. http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/HWN
  28. http://patch-tag.com/r/jfredett/HWN2/pullrepo%20HWN2