[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 165 - January 19, 2011

Thu Jan 20 03:13:44 CET 2011

   Welcome to issue 165 of the HWN, a newsletter covering developments in
   the [1]Haskell community. This release covers the week of January 9 to
   15, 2011.

Announcements

   Brent Yorgey [2]announced the release of issue 17 of The Monad.Reader,
   containing the following three articles: List Leads Off with the Letter
   Lambda by Douglas M. Auclair, The InterleaveT Abstraction: Alternative
   with Flexible Ordering by Neil Brown, and The Reader Monad and
   Abstraction Elimination by Petr Pudlak.

   Andy Stewart [3]sent an invite to anyone interested in joining the
   Manatee team. Manatee is a Haskell integrated environment written in
   Haskell. Follow the link to see some videos posted for a better idea of
   what the tool is.

   Niklas Broberg [4]announced the release of version 1.10.1 of
   haskell-src-extensions.

   Huibiao Zhu [5]sent a call for papers to the 13th International
   Conference on Formal Engineering Methods to be held in Durham, UK on
   October 25-28 2011.

   Read on to see what was hot in the Haskell community around the net...

Quotes of the Week

     * ion: ddarius: Yeah, abstract concepts absolutely hate being
       anthropomorphized.
     * gwern: there are no beginnings or ends to the circular list; but a
       cons cell thunked in Amador...
     * tac-tics: If you wish to create the universe from scratch, you must
       first invent the continuation.
     * sproingie: hm. Â i can't remember how to use @remember
     * NOTE: Just say @remember :) I'm grepping the logs to find these
       things
     * Kaidelong: <Kaidelong> take 6 "bananas" <lambdabot> "banana"
       <Kaidelong> clearly lambdabot is keeping the bananas to itself and
       lying about it
     * hpc: functor and applicative are easy, since you can remember them
       as "those things what look like function application, sort of"

Top Reddit Stories

   * RFC: migrating GHC development to git
     Domain: haskell.org, Score: 51, Comments: 66
     On Reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/ezgvs/rfc_migrating_ghc_development_to_git/
     Original:
http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/glasgow-haskell-users/2011-January/019752.html

   * [CCC] On how Haskell’s Arrows are NOT just function compositions with a
fancier name
     Domain: ro-che.info, Score: 38, Comments: 4
     On Reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/f3e06/ccc_on_how_haskells_arrows_are_not_just_function/
     Original: http://ro-che.info/ccc/12.html

   * foldl vs foldl', and why you should always use the latter
     Domain: reddit.com, Score: 35, Comments: 8
     On Reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/f25iv/foldl_vs_foldl_and_why_you_should_always_use_the/
     Original:
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/f150x/whats_wrong_with_my_haskell_noob_question/c1ck6ey

   * ~Haskell 2011
     Domain: haskell.org, Score: 32, Comments: 5
     On Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/ezmzh/haskell_2011/
     Original:
http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell/2011-January/022497.html

   * The Monad.Reader: Issue 17
     Domain: themonadreader.wordpress.com, Score: 30, Comments: 10
     On Reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/ezft9/the_monadreader_issue_17/
     Original: http://themonadreader.wordpress.com/2011/01/09/issue-17/

   * Painless NP-complete problems: an embedded DSL for SMT solving
     Domain: donsbot.wordpress.com, Score: 27, Comments: 2
     On Reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/f3fp6/painless_npcomplete_problems_an_embedded_dsl_for/
     Original:
http://donsbot.wordpress.com/2011/01/16/painless-np-complete-problems-an-embedded-dsl-for-smt-solving/

   * Oregon Programming Languages Summer School: Types, Semantics, and
Verification
     Domain: lists.seas.upenn.edu, Score: 22, Comments: 20
     On Reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/f15rm/oregon_programming_languages_summer_school_types/
     Original:
http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/pipermail/types-announce/2011/002241.html

   * Announcing Web Application Interface 0.3.0 (now with more speed)
     Domain: docs.yesodweb.com, Score: 20, Comments: 2
     On Reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/f0e6f/announcing_web_application_interface_030_now_with/
     Original: http://docs.yesodweb.com/blog/announcing-wai-0-3/

   * A bran new functional programming (Haskell inter alia) jobs site
(corrected link)
     Domain: functionaljobs.com, Score: 19, Comments: 11
     On Reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/ezqst/a_bran_new_functional_programming_haskell_inter/
     Original: http://functionaljobs.com/

   * [PDF] Orthogonal Serialization For Haskell
     Domain: mathematik.uni-marburg.de, Score: 17, Comments: 3
     On Reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/f1o8t/pdf_orthogonal_serialization_for_haskell/
     Original:
http://www.mathematik.uni-marburg.de/~berthold/papers/mainIFL10-withCopyright.pdf

Top StackOverflow Questions

   * Monads as adjunctions
     votes: 15, answers: 3
     Read on SO:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4697320/monads-as-adjunctions

   * What is a VM and why do dynamic languages need one?
     votes: 11, answers: 8
     Read on SO:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4640809/what-is-a-vm-and-why-do-dynamic-languages-need-one

   * Is Haskell a Lisp?
     votes: 9, answers: 5
     Read on SO:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4696618/is-haskell-a-lisp

   * Are there any connections between Haskell and LINQ?
     votes: 8, answers: 4
     Read on SO:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4683506/are-there-any-connections-between-haskell-and-linq

   * Haskell newbie on types
     votes: 7, answers: 4
     Read on SO:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4664429/haskell-newbie-on-types

   * I can't seem to figure out type variables mixed with classes.
     votes: 5, answers: 2
     Read on SO:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4653102/i-cant-seem-to-figure-out-type-variables-mixed-with-classes

   * Emacs align-regexp on = but not ==
     votes: 5, answers: 1
     Read on SO:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4653575/emacs-align-regexp-on-but-not

   * Current status of automatic parallelism in Haskell [closed]
     votes: 5, answers: 3
     Read on SO:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4701207/current-status-of-automatic-parallelism-in-haskell-closed

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   Daniel Santa Cruz

References

   1. http://haskell.org/
   2. http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/18419
   3. http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/85224
   4. http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/18427
   5. http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/18428
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