[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 200

Daniel Santa Cruz dstcruz at gmail.com
Thu Sep 22 04:03:54 CEST 2011 

   Welcome to issue 200 of the HWN, a newsletter covering developments in
   the Haskell community. This release covers the week of September 11 to
   17, 2011.

   You can find the HTML version of this issue at:

http://contemplatecode.blogspot.com/2011/09/haskell-weekly-news-issue-200.html


Announcements

   Chris Smith is exploring the interest of holding a Virtual
   Hackathon, using Google+ and a Wiki. Come check it out if you would be
   interested in being part of it!
   [1] http://goo.gl/lWnea

   Valentin Robert has completed Apprendre Haskell vous fera le plus
   grand bien!, a translation of Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! into
   French, and has also created a wiki page with basic information
   about Haskell for the French speaking world. Kudos to Valentin for his
   work on this project!
   [2] http://goo.gl/ixiXW
   [3] http://goo.gl/1CG7j

New and Updated Projects

   * netwire (Ertugrul Soeylemez; 1.2.5) Multiple major and minor
     changes.
     [4] http://goo.gl/DS4QR

   * webwire (Ertugrul Soeylemez; 0.1.0) An experimental web
     framework based on the functional reactive programming library
     netwire.
     [5] http://goo.gl/DS4QR

   * numerals (Roel van Dijk) Contains functions to convert numbers
     to words in a number of languages.
     [6] http://goo.gl/4YfhK

   * splaytree (Jehn Lato; 0.1) Provides splay tree based
     implementations of Sets, Seqs, and RangeSets.
     [7] http://goo.gl/aQfX5

   * qrcode (Chris Yuen) Intended to be a full featured QR Code
     library with encoding and decoding and other advanced features.
     [8] http://goo.gl/pymtr

   * haskdogs (Sergey Mironov; 0.1) Project-level ctag file
     generator.
     [9] http://goo.gl/SA6cx

Quotes of the Week

   * Jafet: Can oleg create a term so complicated that even he could not
     type-check it?

   * ion: let es = ["vim", "emacs", "nano"] in map
     (\e -> intercalate " and " (delete e es) ++ " suck, learn " ++ e) es

   * cmccann: [on using SomeException] just catch all exceptions, then
     ignore them. it's the industry-proven way

   * kmc: une monade est comme une crepe. una monada es como un
     burrito. eine Monade ist wie ein Strudel.

   * dylukes: I learned PBMMPPULCDADMABRRRBBBLLTAAMMBBC. It's the
     operator precedence of C.

   * benmachine: ozataman: does it have a main, or a thing with type IO
     thing which looks sort of mainish?

Top Reddit Stories

   * Categorized Weaknesses from the State of Haskell 2011 Survey
     Domain: nickknowlson.com, Score: 72, Comments: 42
     On Reddit: [10] http://goo.gl/0h0K5
     Original: [11] http://goo.gl/DZB5V

   * Haskell B. Curry, born Sept. 12, 1900
     Domain: en.wikipedia.org, Score: 69, Comments: 17
     On Reddit: [12] http://goo.gl/FYP0F
     Original: [13] http://goo.gl/S520L

   * The Records problem in Haskell - help build a consensus about how to
fix it, finally
     Domain: hackage.haskell.org, Score: 59, Comments: 132
     On Reddit: [14] http://goo.gl/8cZnI
     Original: [15] http://goo.gl/VuVoQ

   * Wrriten in Haskell: The Dynamic Scheduling System for the Green Bank
Telescope
     Domain: self.haskell, Score: 51, Comments: 4
     On Reddit: [16] http://goo.gl/vaD3C
     Original: [17] http://goo.gl/vaD3C

   * Announcing: Sirkel, a Haskell implementation of the Chord DHT with
fault tolerance and replication!
     Domain: mortenlysgaard.com, Score: 36, Comments: 1
     On Reddit: [18] http://goo.gl/VNpSv
     Original: [19] http://goo.gl/05NIn

   * Not going to ICFP? Here's an excuse for you
     Domain: ro-che.info, Score: 30, Comments: 5
     On Reddit: [20] http://goo.gl/ABvsq
     Original: [21] http://goo.gl/uI2Mj

   * Announce: Yesod 0.9.2 - Everything Just Works
     Domain: yesodweb.com, Score: 24, Comments: 2
     On Reddit: [22] http://goo.gl/izCme
     Original: [23] http://goo.gl/H0bLr

   * A play in one act
     Domain: hpaste.org, Score: 24, Comments: 17
     On Reddit: [24] http://goo.gl/OLncN
     Original: [25] http://goo.gl/lcssv

   * HaTeX 3 - New version of the Haskell LaTeX library.
     Domain: deltadiaz.blogspot.com, Score: 20, Comments: 6
     On Reddit: [26] http://goo.gl/AgAOp
     Original: [27] http://goo.gl/4z7nJ

   * Open Quark: Another haskell like language on JVM. Much more older and
mature than Frege. Yet unknown and forgotten.
     Domain: openquark.org, Score: 19, Comments: 6
     On Reddit: [28] http://goo.gl/6Lfx6
     Original: [29] http://goo.gl/BI0mC

Top StackOverflow Questions

   * Proving “no corruption” in Haskell
     votes: 17, answers: 3
     Read on SO: [30] http://goo.gl/Xclnk

   * How to handle feature requests that add new package dependencies
     votes: 13, answers: 3
     Read on SO: [31] http://goo.gl/Gw6HQ

   * Left and Right Folding over an Infinite list
     votes: 12, answers: 4
     Read on SO: [32] http://goo.gl/YKHlB

   * Shorter way to write this code
     votes: 11, answers: 6
     Read on SO: [33] http://goo.gl/7ZmBZ

   * Can't link OpenCL on Windows with GHC
     votes: 10, answers: 1
     Read on SO: [34] http://goo.gl/AnvJo

   * What's the point of 'const' in the Haskell Prelude?
     votes: 10, answers: 4
     Read on SO: [35] http://goo.gl/g04xE

   * Haskell functional dependency conflict
     votes: 9, answers: 2
     Read on SO: [36] http://goo.gl/ksmM0

   * DatatypeContexts Deprecated in Latest GHC: Why?
     votes: 9, answers: 2
     Read on SO: [37] http://goo.gl/R03pa

   * Clojure equivalent of Haskell's “Scrap Your Boilerplate” (SYB)
     votes: 8, answers: 1
     Read on SO: [38] http://goo.gl/R6NoS

   * Why using functions defined in the same module faster than the same
function defined in another?
     votes: 8, answers: 2
     Read on SO: [39] http://goo.gl/qAjCk

   * repeatedly applying a function until the result is stable
     votes: 8, answers: 4
     Read on SO: [40] http://goo.gl/NlP4u

About the Haskell Weekly News

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   Until next time,
   Daniel Santa Cruz

References

   1. http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/92438
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http://nickknowlson.com/blog/2011/09/12/haskell-survey-categorized-weaknesses/
  11.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/kd2ky/categorized_weaknesses_from_the_state_of_haskell/
  12. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell_Curry
  13.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/kcq8m/haskell_b_curry_born_sept_12_1900/
  14. http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Records
  15.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/kgd4g/the_records_problem_in_haskell_help_build_a/
  16.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/ke3ho/wrriten_in_haskell_the_dynamic_scheduling_system/
  17.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/ke3ho/wrriten_in_haskell_the_dynamic_scheduling_system/
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http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/kilx4/announcing_sirkel_a_haskell_implementation_of_the/
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http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/kc4aa/not_going_to_icfp_heres_an_excuse_for_you/
  22. http://www.yesodweb.com/blog/2011/09/yesod-0.9.2
  23.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/kc6h2/announce_yesod_092_everything_just_works/
  24. http://hpaste.org/51474
  25. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/kixek/a_play_in_one_act/
  26. http://deltadiaz.blogspot.com/2011/09/hatex-3-previous-notes.html
  27.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/kflnp/hatex_3_new_version_of_the_haskell_latex_library/
  28. http://openquark.org/Welcome.html
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http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/kgtxm/open_quark_another_haskell_like_language_on_jvm/
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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7435363/proving-no-corruption-in-haskell
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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7436939/how-to-handle-feature-requests-that-add-new-package-dependencies
  32.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7396978/left-and-right-folding-over-an-infinite-list
  33.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7453744/shorter-way-to-write-this-code
  34.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7391634/cant-link-opencl-on-windows-with-ghc
  35.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7402528/whats-the-point-of-const-in-the-haskell-prelude
  36.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7436109/haskell-functional-dependency-conflict
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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7438600/datatypecontexts-deprecated-in-latest-ghc-why
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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7376572/clojure-equivalent-of-haskells-scrap-your-boilerplate-syb
  39.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7401724/why-using-functions-defined-in-the-same-module-faster-than-the-same-function-defi
  40.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7442892/repeatedly-applying-a-function-until-the-result-is-stable
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