[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 179

[Daniel Santa Cruz]

   Welcome to issue 179 of the HWN, a newsletter covering developments in
   the Haskell community. This release covers the week of April 16 to 23, 2011.

Announcements

   Alex Mason announced (http://goo.gl/2qtyM) the second annual
   Australian Haskell Hackathon to be heald from Friday July 8th to
   Sunday July 10th, at the UNSW's Computer Science building in
   Sydney. Come share with your fellow Australasian Haskellers!

   "The Hac" team invited us (http://goo.gl/8EQfI) to HacPhi 2011, a
   Haskell hackathon/get-together to be held July 29 to 31 at the
   University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia. Daniel Wagner wanted
   to stress that "everyone is welcome--you do not have to be a
   Haskell guru. Helping hack on someone else's project could be a
   great way to increase your Haskell-fu."

   Robert Clausecker asked "Is Hugs dead?" (http://goo.gl/639dC). Sad
   to see projects of this sort fade into the past.

Quotes of the Week

   * copumpkin: THE POWER OF MIXFIX COMPELS YOU (to not use it much)

Top Reddit Stories

   * Why Darcs users care about consistency
     Domain: koweycode.blogspot.com, Score: 59, Comments: 3
     On Reddit: http://goo.gl/oBU0r
     Original: http://goo.gl/lnUCU

   * Review: Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!
     Domain: jerf.org, Score: 57, Comments: 15
     On Reddit: http://goo.gl/BjJq7
     Original: http://goo.gl/P7u3x

   * The Haskell Heap : Inside P4
     Domain: blog.ezyang.com, Score: 37, Comments: 3
     On Reddit: http://goo.gl/EoV5D
     Original: http://goo.gl/ropku

   * First-class modules for Haskell : Shields and Peyton Jones, 2001 :: PDF
     Domain: research.microsoft.com, Score: 27, Comments: 1
     On Reddit: http://goo.gl/7renV
     Original: http://goo.gl/7lHV4

   * Darcs hacking sprint 6 report
     Domain: blog.darcs.net, Score: 27, Comments: 13
     On Reddit: http://goo.gl/ljO1O
     Original: http://goo.gl/xRr6r

   * Ugly memoization
     Domain: augustss.blogspot.com, Score: 25, Comments: 8
     On Reddit: http://goo.gl/D6FoV
     Original: http://goo.gl/IUL1M

   * Monoids for Maybe
     Domain: byorgey.wordpress.com, Score: 23, Comments: 2
     On Reddit: http://goo.gl/yVU7O
     Original: https://byorgey.wordpress.com/2011/04/18/monoids-for-maybe/

   * Don't forget to think about GC flags when doing performance tuning
     Domain: stackoverflow.com, Score: 20, Comments: 3
     On Reddit: http://goo.gl/6xzEj
     Original: http://goo.gl/Xwkro

   * Haskell videos on video.google.com, which shuts down for good on
April 29th 2011
     Domain: google.com, Score: 20, Comments: 5
     On Reddit: http://goo.gl/MizlZ
     Original: http://goo.gl/CxnBK

   * Evaluation on the Haskell Heap
     Domain: blog.ezyang.com, Score: 20, Comments: 2
     On Reddit: http://goo.gl/EX5aE
     Original: http://goo.gl/cU7Nt

Top StackOverflow Questions

   * What are the primary theoretical difficulties with adding
ML-style modules to Haskell?
     votes: 27, answers: 3
     Read on SO: http://goo.gl/8An0y

   * Optimizing numerical array performance in Haskell
     votes: 25, answers: 1
     Read on SO: http://goo.gl/ykzlV

   * lenses, fclabels, data-accessor - which library for structure
access and mutation is better
     votes: 17, answers: 1
     Read on SO: http://goo.gl/c74uO

   * In Haskell performing 'and' and 'or' for boolean functions
     votes: 15, answers: 5
     Read on SO: http://goo.gl/0U5pI

   * Automatic memoizing in functional programming languages
     votes: 11, answers: 4
     Read on SO: http://goo.gl/hg8Ei

   * Alternative implementations of Haskell's standard library type classes
     votes: 9, answers: 3
     Read on SO: http://goo.gl/LDp9u

   * Scheme vs Haskell for an Introduction to Functional Programming? [migrated]
     votes: 8, answers: 0
     Read on SO: http://goo.gl/lbeX3

   * Writing loops for interactive IO: problems with do-notation and layout
     votes: 5, answers: 1
     Read on SO: http://goo.gl/HVRrR

   * Python-"is"-like equality operator for Haskell/GHC
     votes: 5, answers: 4
     Read on SO: http://goo.gl/7Z4mA

   * Optimising a Haskell XML parser
     votes: 5, answers: 1
     Read on SO: http://goo.gl/fsqqw

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   Until next time,
   Daniel Santa Cruz