[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 185

Daniel Santa Cruz dstcruz at gmail.com
Thu Jun 9 04:22:46 CEST 2011


   Welcome to issue 180 of the HWN, a newsletter covering developments in
   the Haskell community. This release covers the week of May 29 to Jun 4,
   2011.

   You can find the HTML version at: http://goo.gl/Tm1Qu

Announcements

   Sebastian Fischer wrote in to inform us of of a student internship
   for parallel Haskell at the National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo.
   The internship is for up to three months, between July and September
   2011.
   http://goo.gl/xHjkn

   EIJIRO Sumii reminded us that the ICFP Programming Contest 2011 will
   be starting on June 17.
   http://goo.gl/eumwm

Quotes of the Week

   * Tom Murphy: Great! New I really can say "Come on! It's fun! I can
     write foldr with foldl!"

   * Cale: C++, Y U SO UGLY?

   * xplat: nae, that'd be 'arr, my small example ain't half near as
     yellow as a lily-livered spaniard! scupper me wi' a cutlass, arr.'

   * Cale: rnf accidentally the entire data structure

Top Reddit Stories

   * Haskell and parallelism in the Economist
     Domain: economist.com, Score: 66, Comments: 5
     On Reddit: http://goo.gl/rBnc1
     Original: http://goo.gl/vFtGY

   * I have the world's coolest hoodie (X-post from r/programming)
     Domain: imgur.com, Score: 28, Comments: 15
     On Reddit: http://goo.gl/bk5wt
     Original: http://goo.gl/CT3fb

   * An OpenGL in Haskell anecdote which illustrates the obvious,
HOpenGL is low level and imperative.
     Domain: haskell.org, Score: 27, Comments: 24
     On Reddit: http://goo.gl/QtDNy
     Original: http://goo.gl/LUoL9

   * Yesod for non-Haskellers (also, for Haskellers)
     Domain: yesodweb.com, Score: 27, Comments: 2
     On Reddit: http://goo.gl/ekOQJ
     Original: http://goo.gl/UCyIv

   * Fast forwarding lrand48()
     Domain: blog.sigfpe.com, Score: 24, Comments: 0
     On Reddit: http://goo.gl/Ki0in
     Original: http://goo.gl/5ICat

   * Silk (Haskell, semantic web start up) is hiring in Amsterdam
     Domain: news.ycombinator.com, Score: 24, Comments: 0
     On Reddit: http://goo.gl/GUFVP
     Original: http://goo.gl/j8fRW

   * Nikki and the Robots 0.3 is out
     Domain: joyridelabs.de, Score: 23, Comments: 7
     On Reddit: http://goo.gl/w3yrF
     Original: http://goo.gl/sJdwj

   * Introducing the Yesod Wiki
     Domain: yesodweb.com, Score: 19, Comments: 0
     On Reddit: http://goo.gl/4TStP
     Original: http://goo.gl/noMVO

   * Communicating Haskell Processes: The Long And The Short Of It
     Domain: chplib.wordpress.com, Score: 19, Comments: 0
     On Reddit: http://goo.gl/mC8cw
     Original: http://goo.gl/hHHoH

   * What libraries from scientific computing have yet to be written?
     Domain: self.haskell, Score: 17, Comments: 23
     On Reddit: http://goo.gl/QXwyA

Top StackOverflow Questions

   * "A proof is a program; the formula it proves is a type for the
program" [migrated]
     votes: 17, answers: 0
     Read on SO: http://goo.gl/LfzPM

   * Writing foldl using foldr
     votes: 16, answers: 2
     Read on SO: http://goo.gl/O7I0Z

   * Binary Serialization for Lists of Undefined Length in Haskell
     votes: 13, answers: 1
     Read on SO: http://goo.gl/pZkyI

   * From C ++ to Haskell Classes and States
     votes: 12, answers: 2
     Read on SO: http://goo.gl/yYt9R

   * Why does Haskell force data constructor's first letter to be upper case?
     votes: 11, answers: 3
     Read on SO: http://goo.gl/dnGIl

   * Why is such a function definition not allowed in haskell ?
     votes: 10, answers: 5
     Read on SO: http://goo.gl/0RoHY

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   Until next time,
   Daniel Santa Cruz



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