[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 209

Daniel Santa Cruz dstcruz at gmail.com
Thu Dec 1 04:16:27 CET 2011 

Welcome to issue 209 of the HWN, a newsletter covering developments in
the Haskell community. This release covers two weeks, from November 13
to 26, 2011.

You can find the HTML version at:
http://contemplatecode.blogspot.com/2011/11/haskell-weekly-news-issue-209.html

Announcements

   By now I'm sure you've heard about Da the lamb.
   [1] http://goo.gl/WF2o7

   Sean Leather annouced that the next Dutch functinal programming day
   will take place on January 6, 2012, at the university campus "De
   Uithof" of Utrecht University.
   [2] http://goo.gl/IfVK8

   Ganesh Sittampalam announced that the haskell.org committee for
   2011-12 has been formed.
   [3] http://goo.gl/YFFsa

New and Updated Projects

   * Gtk2Hs (Axel Simon; 0.12.2) Adjustments to Gtk2Hs to work with
     GHC 7.x.x. Also, looking for a part-time maintainer.
     [4] http://goo.gl/52M56

   * iteratee-compress (Maciej Marcin Piechotka; 0.3.0.0) Provides
     compressing and decompressing enumerators.
     [5] http://goo.gl/tRAkg

   * Netwire (Ertugrul Soeylemez; 2.0.0) Complete rewrite.
     [6] http://goo.gl/HMCG8

   * SBV (Levent Erkok; 0.9.22)
     [7] http://goo.gl/pSXGb

   * graphviz (Ivan Lazar Miljenovic; 2999.12.0.4).
     [8] http://goo.gl/JNVSV

   * SmallCHeck (Roman Cheplyaka; 0.5)
     [9] http://goo.gl/8njoh

   * OpenCL (Luis Cabellos; 1.0.2.2) Better error handling.
     [10] http://goo.gl/fphJN

   * clientsession (Michael Snoyman; 0.7.3.4) Major performance
     enhancement.
     [11] http://goo.gl/hCqrf

Quotes of the Week

   * dmwit: Let's not make things better, I haven't put enough lipstick
     on the worse version yet.

   * mike-burns: Oh good, a semantic argument. Goodnight.

   * companion_cube: why bother with complicated abstractions like
     monads, when you can enjoy the taste of the sun on your skin?

   * applicative: clearly the trouble with haskell is plain: no inbuild
     syntactic support for quaternions. Wonder if *fortress* has it.

   * elliott: "with a lot of unicode" is like agda's @faq. "yes, agda
     can do that with a lot of unicode!"

   * [shachaf] mauke: EBCDIC?
     [mauke] shachaf: ah, the data encryption
             	      standard invented by IBM?

   * Tiwazz: It's called "Berp" because that's the sound Haskell makes
     after it devours a live Python.

Top Reddit Stories

   * Typeclassopedia moved to the Haskell wiki
     Domain: byorgey.wordpress.com, Score: 72, Comments: 8
     On Reddit: [12] http://goo.gl/pbHqr
     Original: [13] http://goo.gl/tWM0P

   * New project to support SIMD vector instructions in GHC
     (x86 SSE & AVX, ARM's NEON etc)
     Domain: hackage.haskell.org, Score: 62, Comments: 18
     On Reddit: [14] http://goo.gl/JRj3o
     Original: [15] http://goo.gl/OcFCG

   * GHC 7.4 branched, what's in for Christmas?
     Domain: haskell.org, Score: 54, Comments: 16
     On Reddit: [16] http://goo.gl/ZUN1e
     Original: [17] http://goo.gl/qWIhq

   * How to read Haskell like Python
     Domain: blog.ezyang.com, Score: 52, Comments: 7
     On Reddit: [18] http://goo.gl/3cVXY
     Original: [19] http://goo.gl/nNhDI

   * xmonad-0.10 released!
     Domain: hackage.haskell.org, Score: 51, Comments: 15
     On Reddit: [20] http://goo.gl/U5rry
     Original: [21] http://goo.gl/SIFuB

   * Roy - language with Hindley-Milner type system and monads that
compiles to javascript
     Domain: roy.brianmckenna.org, Score: 43, Comments: 9
     On Reddit: [22] http://goo.gl/RLK8S
     Original: [23] http://goo.gl/dzx8N

   * The Universe of Discourse : Triples and Closure and Monads
     Domain: blog.plover.com, Score: 42, Comments: 13
     On Reddit: [24] http://goo.gl/7EDJX
     Original: [25] http://goo.gl/iPLnN

   * ANN: happstack-lite. A simpler, friendlier version of the
     Happstack Haskell Web Framework. What do you think?
     Domain: happstack.blogspot.com, Score: 35, Comments: 12
     On Reddit: [26] http://goo.gl/Ii6Ch
     Original: [27] http://goo.gl/5wSZJ

   * HN/SPL - a better way to do your boring C++ job (written in Haskell)
     Domain: code.google.com, Score: 35, Comments: 16
     On Reddit: [28] http://goo.gl/VxqIN
     Original: [29] http://goo.gl/9aAeZ

   * Fast lookup tables in haskell
     Domain: tab.snarc.org, Score: 34, Comments: 10
     On Reddit: [30] http://goo.gl/mzgyw
     Original: [31] http://goo.gl/4VnrX

   * What Yesod Got Right
     Domain: yesodweb.com, Score: 34, Comments: 12
     On Reddit: [32] http://goo.gl/eZhhK
     Original: [33] http://goo.gl/Li4mY

Top StackOverflow Questions

   * What is a monad in FP, in categorical terms?
     votes: 30, answers: 7
     Read on SO: [34] http://goo.gl/sC7PD

   * Haskell vs JVM performance [closed]
     votes: 24, answers: 6
     Read on SO: [35] http://goo.gl/olA8g

   * Are there any Haskell techniques for mixed
     (part structure, part unmodified text)
     parsing & rewriting?
     votes: 24, answers: 1
     Read on SO: [36] http://goo.gl/jRydd

   * STArray documentation for newbies and State/ST related questions
     votes: 17, answers: 1
     Read on SO: [37] http://goo.gl/nw8eH

   * Should I avoid using Monad fail?
     votes: 15, answers: 3
     Read on SO: [38] http://goo.gl/ruh7s

   * Effects of monomorphism restriction on type class constraints
     votes: 15, answers: 2
     Read on SO: [39] http://goo.gl/QRbTh

   * Folding, function composition, monads, and laziness, oh my?
     votes: 14, answers: 2
     Read on SO: [40] http://goo.gl/gped5

   * Type error when ascribing a valid forall type to a let-bound variable
     votes: 13, answers: 2
     Read on SO: [41] http://goo.gl/oyx0a

   * How do I organize my pure functions with my monadic actions idiomatically
     votes: 13, answers: 3
     Read on SO: [42] http://goo.gl/6tByj

   * Is foldl ever preferable to its strict cousin, foldl'?
     votes: 13, answers: 2
     Read on SO: [43] http://goo.gl/jFIe4

Until next time,
   Daniel Santa Cruz

References

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  12. http://byorgey.wordpress.com/2011/11/26/typeclassopedia-v2-moving-my-efforts-to-the-haskell-wiki/
  13. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/mq2nr/typeclassopedia_moved_to_the_haskell_wiki/
  14. http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/SIMD
  15. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/mbpoi/new_project_to_support_simd_vector_instructions/
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  21. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/mhzu8/xmonad010_released/
  22. http://roy.brianmckenna.org/
  23. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/mp245/roy_language_with_hindleymilner_type_system_and/
  24. http://blog.plover.com/math/monad-closure.html
  25. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/mfsfz/the_universe_of_discourse_triples_and_closure_and/
  26. http://happstack.blogspot.com/2011/11/ann-happstack-lite-friendly.html
  27. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/mcjoz/ann_happstacklite_a_simpler_friendlier_version_of/
  28. http://code.google.com/p/inv/
  29. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/mldzq/hnspl_a_better_way_to_do_your_boring_c_job/
  30. http://tab.snarc.org/posts/haskell/2011-11-15-lookup-tables.html
  31. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/mh1ox/fast_lookup_tables_in_haskell/
  32. http://www.yesodweb.com/blog/2011/11/got-right
  33. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/mi4r7/what_yesod_got_right/
  34. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8221395/what-is-a-monad-in-fp-in-categorical-terms
  35. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8185282/haskell-vs-jvm-performance
  36. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8198808/are-there-any-haskell-techniques-for-mixed-part-structure-part-unmodified-text
  37. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8197032/starray-documentation-for-newbies-and-state-st-related-questions
  38. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8163852/should-i-avoid-using-monad-fail
  39. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8270548/effects-of-monomorphism-restriction-on-type-class-constraints
  40. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8249958/folding-function-composition-monads-and-laziness-oh-my
  41. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8190431/type-error-when-ascribing-a-valid-forall-type-to-a-let-bound-variable
  42. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8234162/how-do-i-organize-my-pure-functions-with-my-monadic-actions-idiomatically
  43. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8235797/is-foldl-ever-preferable-to-its-strict-cousin-foldl

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