[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 192

Thu Jul 28 04:25:59 CEST 2011

   Welcome to issue 192 of the HWN, a newsletter covering developments in
   the Haskell community. This release covers the week of July 17 to
   23, 2011.
   [1] http://goo.gl/8hDku

   You can find an HTML rendition of this issue at:
   http://contemplatecode.blogspot.com/2011/07/haskell-weekly-news-issue-192.html

Announcements

   Nicolas Wu announced the 4th edition of the Haskell Parallel Digest.
   The digest is made possible by the Parallel GHC Project.
   [2] http://goo.gl/lm5T1

Quotes of the Week

   * copumpkin: perhaps I should stop eating people I've never met

   * Saizan: agda is webscale in the sense that you need half of The
     Cloud to run the typechecker

   * kmc: my algorithm is O(1), but the constant factor grows
     quadratically as the problem size increases

   * cmccann: C++ is dual to Haskell in a sense: it's much too hard for
     the average programmer to use safely, but they do anyway with
     disastrous results; whereas Haskell isn't actually that difficult
     to use but people don't even try

Top Reddit Stories

   * What Haskell Doesn't Have
     Domain: elaforge.blogspot.com, Score: 73, Comments: 58
     On Reddit: [3] http://goo.gl/17UDu
     Original: [4] http://goo.gl/u4Ozy

   * Take the State of Haskell 2011 Survey
     Domain: blog.johantibell.com, Score: 55, Comments: 0
     On Reddit: [5] http://goo.gl/Q7iip
     Original: [6] http://goo.gl/jq1Je

   * Economic Interpreter for Haskell
     Domain: pnyf.inf.elte.hu, Score: 40, Comments: 5
     On Reddit: [7] http://goo.gl/BmBqf
     Original: [8] http://goo.gl/92mfS

   * Haskell on Heroku
     Domain: yesodweb.com, Score: 38, Comments: 5
     On Reddit: [9] http://goo.gl/LYHZY
     Original: [10] http://goo.gl/Ly4n7

   * Haskell Stickers!
     Domain: redbubble.com, Score: 33, Comments: 7
     On Reddit: [11] http://goo.gl/WVXoH
     Original: [12] http://goo.gl/RpQ0f

   * Rewritten Agda introduction
     Domain: pnyf.inf.elte.hu, Score: 31, Comments: 34
     On Reddit: [13] http://goo.gl/gz6TJ
     Original: [14] http://goo.gl/oTg5J

   * A plugin for GHC to turn Haskell into a strict language
     Domain: github.com, Score: 28, Comments: 18
     On Reddit: [15] http://goo.gl/BK4os

   * What is the state of HackageDB 2.0?
     Domain: hackage.haskell.org, Score: 26, Comments: 8
     On Reddit: [16] http://goo.gl/nrMTc
     Original: [17] http://goo.gl/tui2x

   * wxHaskell: The road to the Haskell Platform?
     Domain: sourceforge.net, Score: 26, Comments: 33
     On Reddit: [18] http://goo.gl/vqfPC
     Original: [19] http://goo.gl/KNa16

   * Just do It: Simple Monadic Equational Reasoning [pdf]
     Domain: cs.ox.ac.uk, Score: 24, Comments: 2
     On Reddit: [20] http://goo.gl/GG0cs
     Original: [21] http://goo.gl/7MHGw

   * Cabal-dev 0.8 is out with improvements to: flag parsing, user
cabal settings, cabal-dev ghci and more!
     Domain: github.com, Score: 24, Comments: 15
     On Reddit: [22] http://goo.gl/YO6Q6

   * Functors, applicative functors, monads – their relationship by example
     Domain: heh.fi, Score: 23, Comments: 0
     On Reddit: [23] http://goo.gl/bkJ4Y
     Original: [24] http://goo.gl/bf6zo

   * Snap 0.5.2 released
     Domain: snapframework.com, Score: 23, Comments: 0
     On Reddit: [25] http://goo.gl/0RCh3
     Original: [26] http://goo.gl/jeFU5

Top StackOverflow Questions

   * Help in understanding pointfree code
     votes: 14, answers: 1
     Read on SO: [27] http://goo.gl/Ryy5c

   * How can I combine Handles in Haskell?
     votes: 12, answers: 2
     Read on SO: [28] http://goo.gl/25W4E

   * Current state of integrating unit tests with Haskell's Cabal?
     votes: 9, answers: 1
     Read on SO: [29] http://goo.gl/nm8Zc

   * Does iteratee I/O make sense in non-functional languages?
     votes: 9, answers: 2
     Read on SO: [30] http://goo.gl/f8YhP

   * Literate Haskell: References And Indexing
     votes: 8, answers: 1
     Read on SO: [31] http://goo.gl/QYPBK

   * Call C Functions from Haskell at runtime
     votes: 7, answers: 1
     Read on SO: [32] http://goo.gl/oj0R7

   * Type-class instances for types with 2 parameters when the
type-class has only one
     votes: 7, answers: 2
     Read on SO: [33] http://goo.gl/JmxBr

   * List of options: equivalent of sequence in Scala?
     votes: 7, answers: 4
     Read on SO: [34] http://goo.gl/MnZg8

   * Is it necessary to specify every superclass in a class context of
a class declaration?
     votes: 7, answers: 1
     Read on SO: [35] http://goo.gl/OxoSN

   * Partial decoding of ByteStrings to Text
     votes: 7, answers: 1
     Read on SO: [36] http://goo.gl/9JSKw

   * Haskell, algorithms and school
     votes: 7, answers: 1
     Read on SO: [37] http://goo.gl/bsM5v

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   Daniel Santa Cruz

References

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 3. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/iuhc0/what_haskell_doesnt_have/
 4. http://elaforge.blogspot.com/2011/07/what-haskell-doesnt-have.html
 5. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/irxtf/take_the_state_of_haskell_2011_survey/
 6. http://blog.johantibell.com/2011/07/its-time-for-this-years-state-of.html
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10. http://www.yesodweb.com/blog/2011/07/haskell-on-heroku
11. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/iwm3r/haskell_stickers/
12. http://www.redbubble.com/products/configure/6390818-sticker
13. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/itkii/rewritten_agda_introduction/
14. http://pnyf.inf.elte.hu/fp/Overview_en.xml?fuckyoureddit#agda
15. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/iur1n/a_plugin_for_ghc_to_turn_haskell_into_a_strict/
16. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/isqmc/what_is_the_state_of_hackagedb_20/
17. http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/wiki/HackageDB/2.0
18. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/itwl5/wxhaskell_the_road_to_the_haskell_platform/
19. http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=alpine.DEB.2.00.1106202127060.32496%40anubis.informatik.uni-halle.de&forum_name=wxhaskell-devel
20. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/it13r/just_do_it_simple_monadic_equational_reasoning_pdf/
21. http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/jeremy.gibbons/publications/mr.pdf
22. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/it50b/cabaldev_08_is_out_with_improvements_to_flag/
23. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/it3lh/functors_applicative_functors_monads_their/
24. http://heh.fi/haskell/functors/
25. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/iv6g3/snap_052_released/
26. http://snapframework.com/blog/2011/07/20/snap-0.5.2-released
27. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6797247/help-in-understanding-pointfree-code
28. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6736790/how-can-i-combine-handles-in-haskell
29. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6787231/current-state-of-integrating-unit-tests-with-haskells-cabal
30. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6795384/does-iteratee-i-o-make-sense-in-non-functional-languages
31. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6736482/literate-haskell-references-and-indexing
32. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6740850/call-c-functions-from-haskell-at-runtime
33. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6747083/type-class-instances-for-types-with-2-parameters-when-the-type-class-has-only-one
34. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6750609/list-of-options-equivalent-of-sequence-in-scala
35. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6782389/is-it-necessary-to-specify-every-superclass-in-a-class-context-of-a-class-declara
36. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6786328/partial-decoding-of-bytestrings-to-text
37. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6797216/haskell-algorithms-and-school