[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 178

[Daniel Santa Cruz]

   Welcome to issue 178 of the HWN, a newsletter covering developments in
   the Haskell community. This release covers the week of April 10 to
   16, 2011.

   You can find the HTML version at: http://bit.ly/feMLgB

Announcements

   Simon Marlow commented (http://goo.gl/XythI) on plans to have a
Hackathon at MSR Cambridge
   this summer.

   Dr. Heinrich Hordegen informed us (http://goo.gl/lQvqw) of the
creation of a Munich
   funtional programmers' user group. Help us spread the word to anyone
   interested in functional programming in general.

   Eric Y. Kow announced (http://goo.gl/PYdKI) the creation of the
parallel-haskell mailing
   list. "The group exists to bring together the various groups in the
   Haskell community that are working on parallelism. It is intended to
   provide some visibility into the various efforts and to encourage
   collaboration."

   Don Stewart announced (http://goo.gl/0nWn2) the release of the
Haskell Platform
   2011.2.0.1. "This release adds support for GHC 7.0.3, and significant
   improvements for Mac OS X users."

Quotes of the Week

     * Gregory Collins: "Easy to use" and "high performance" don't have to
       be contradictory, but you shouldn't neglect the latter.

     * xplat: haskell is good for portability. it can run well on any sort
       of x86 unix, which is all there is after all.

     * Spockz: it's just that my first name isn't Simon so I'm not allowed
       to use unsafePerformIO :P

     * djahandarie: Category theorists are morphisms for turning cofree
       theorems into free theorems.

     * monochrom: lambdabot is partially broken and partially correct when
       it comes to utf-8

     * mm_freak: > case analysis of syntax -> bullshit <lambdabot> True

Top Reddit Stories

     * Simon Peyton-Jones – A Taste Of Haskell
       Domain: ontwik.com, Score: 57, Comments:
       On Reddit: http://goo.gl/fCxtx
       Original: http://goo.gl/4LpJQ

     * Really, HaskellWiki, really?
       Domain: i.imgur.com, Score: 43, Comments: 13
       On Reddit: http://goo.gl/HTigS
       Original: http://i.imgur.com/fPpby.png

     * Haskell Platform 2011.2.0.1 is out -- major improvements for Mac users
       Domain: hackage.haskell.org, Score: 39, Comments: 9
       On Reddit: http://goo.gl/BJWwp
       Original: http://goo.gl/5vbN8

     * Tracing the compilation of Hello Factorial in GHC
       Domain: blog.ezyang.com, Score: 36, Comments: 1
       On Reddit: http://goo.gl/WNA2Z
       Original: http://goo.gl/fsVtS

     * acid-state: use regular Haskell data structures without
worrying about data loss or durability
       Domain: haskell.org, Score: 32, Comments: 5
       On Reddit: http://goo.gl/2hgGj
       Original: http://goo.gl/tKpV2

     * Persistence of Memory: persistent vs ephemeral data structures
       Domain: existentialtype.wordpress.com, Score: 28, Comments: 5
       On Reddit: http://goo.gl/Ss70R
       Original: http://goo.gl/XHdJV

     * Bugs from using the wrong variable
       Domain: blog.ezyang.com, Score: 26, Comments: 11
       On Reddit: http://goo.gl/x7RId
       Original: http://goo.gl/3HJs2

     * Cost of calling Haskell from C?
       Domain: stackoverflow.com, Score: 20, Comments: 1
       On Reddit: http://goo.gl/6OiRH
       Original: http://goo.gl/XfmRe

     * Comparing Snap and Yesod
       Domain: stackoverflow.com, Score: 19, Comments: 4
       On Reddit: http://goo.gl/P0Gr6
       Original: http://goo.gl/dvbEe

     * Announcing: Heist v0.5.1
       Domain: snapframework.com, Score: 17, Comments:
       On Reddit: http://goo.gl/cIja8
       Original: http://goo.gl/d7FWG

Top StackOverflow Questions

     * Comparing Haskell's Snap and Yesod web frameworks
       votes: 28, answers: 4
       Read on SO: http://goo.gl/AhFH5

     * Haskell library for 2D drawing
       votes: 19, answers: 4
       Read on SO: http://goo.gl/61C4e

     * One REPL to bind them all?
       votes: 19, answers: 3
       Read on SO: http://goo.gl/JUFS2

     * Performance considerations of Haskell FFI / C?
       votes: 16, answers: 4
       Read on SO: http://goo.gl/tldoX

     * What is Haskell's style of polymorphism?
       votes: 13, answers: 1
       Read on SO: http://goo.gl/z3JzT

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   Until next time,
   Daniel Santa Cruz