[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 290

Thu Apr 10 04:46:24 UTC 2014

Welcome to issue 289 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits
of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers
from April 1 to 5, 2014

Quotes of the Week

   * edwardk: Zombies are expensive.

Top Reddit Stories

   * foldl is broken!
     Domain: well-typed.com, Score: 148, Comments: 63
     On Reddit: [1] http://goo.gl/LXmJTV
     Original: [2] http://goo.gl/viOG5O

   * A small Haskell extension
     Domain: augustss.blogspot.nl, Score: 76, Comments: 23
     On Reddit: [3] http://goo.gl/buI46t
     Original: [4] http://goo.gl/LnAV9y

   * New GHC Features for 7.10.1 and Beyond
     Domain: haskell.org, Score: 74, Comments: 26
     On Reddit: [5] http://goo.gl/DdXTfO
     Original: [6] http://goo.gl/g0FPBS

   * Libc considered harmful
     Domain: sylvain-henry.info, Score: 58, Comments: 28
     On Reddit: [7] http://goo.gl/aq39Mf
     Original: [8] http://goo.gl/qdQDXm

   * Category Theory by Tom LaGatta
     Domain: youtube.com, Score: 58, Comments: 53
     On Reddit: [9] http://goo.gl/oIzG1e
     Original: [10] http://goo.gl/DeLu5G

   * Idris 0.9.12 released with major laziness, codata, and documentation
updates plus metavars in types
     Domain: idris-lang.org, Score: 55, Comments: 25
     On Reddit: [11] http://goo.gl/4MtXJS
     Original: [12] http://goo.gl/3tXbqC

   * A cool paper I found on "Functional Programming and 3D Games". It
discusses everything from collision detection to physics and texturing.
[PDF]
     Domain: cse.unsw.edu.au, Score: 52, Comments: 3
     On Reddit: [13] http://goo.gl/6PYB2e
     Original: [14] http://goo.gl/Tf6fa2

   * Error reporting with locations
     Domain: augustss.blogspot.fr, Score: 47, Comments: 28
     On Reddit: [15] http://goo.gl/ikaENm
     Original: [16] http://goo.gl/hntlJT

   * [ANN] Haste now has a website and a mailing list
     Domain: haste-lang.org, Score: 42, Comments: 7
     On Reddit: [17] http://goo.gl/Ife2FA
     Original: [18] http://goo.gl/lRWmhv

   * Haskell in the Newsroom
     Domain: infoq.com, Score: 41, Comments: 5
     On Reddit: [19] http://goo.gl/M4tehD
     Original: [20] http://goo.gl/bpvgLA

   * Haskell application architecture best practices
     Domain: self.haskell, Score: 32, Comments: 23
     On Reddit: [21] http://goo.gl/XjHfNJ
     Original: [22] http://goo.gl/XjHfNJ

Top StackOverflow Questions

   * Haskell - Is it possible to make pointfree functions more readable
using different combinators than (.)?
     votes: 11, answers: 1
     Read on SO: [23] http://goo.gl/5b036l

   * How to detect if a program has been compiled using -threaded?
     votes: 10, answers: 2
     Read on SO: [24] http://goo.gl/Cr7pMA

   * What does the star mean in this haskell code?
     votes: 9, answers: 2
     Read on SO: [25] http://goo.gl/qnolS7

   * What about arrows?
     votes: 9, answers: 2
     Read on SO: [26] http://goo.gl/b1wwp4

   * Triggering a documentation update for a Hackage package
     votes: 8, answers: 1
     Read on SO: [27] http://goo.gl/ErTVzf

   * Combining Data.Dynamic and type classes
     votes: 7, answers: 0
     Read on SO: [28] http://goo.gl/n8qMo9

   * Systematically applying a function to all fields of a haskell record
     votes: 6, answers: 3
     Read on SO: [29] http://goo.gl/tNkLGu

   * Transforming a List of 2-Tuples in Haskell
     votes: 6, answers: 3
     Read on SO: [30] http://goo.gl/dDe8QP

   * Error in ghci which I cannot reproduce in written haskell file
     votes: 6, answers: 1
     Read on SO: [31] http://goo.gl/bg8DCw

   * Why can I call a monadic function without supplying a monad?
     votes: 6, answers: 1
     Read on SO: [32] http://goo.gl/xZZ5iO

   * Deriving default instances using GHC.Generics
     votes: 6, answers: 1
     Read on SO: [33] http://goo.gl/Autu6r

Until next time,
[34]+Daniel Santa Cruz

References

   1. http://www.well-typed.com/blog/90/
   2. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/21wvk7/foldl_is_broken/
   3. http://augustss.blogspot.nl/2014/04/a-small-haskell-extension.html
   4.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2239wh/a_small_haskell_extension/
   5. http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2014-April/113373.html
   6.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/21wbme/new_ghc_features_for_7101_and_beyond/
   7.
http://sylvain-henry.info/blog/posts/2014-04-01-libc-considered-harmful.html
   8.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/220ae4/libc_considered_harmful/
   9. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6L6XeNdd_k
  10.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/229scs/category_theory_by_tom_lagatta/
  11. http://www.idris-lang.org/idris-0-9-12-released/
  12.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2284s5/idris_0912_released_with_major_laziness_codata/
  13. http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~pls/thesis/munc-thesis.pdf
  14.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/21zush/a_cool_paper_i_found_on_functional_programming/
  15.
http://augustss.blogspot.fr/2014/04/haskell-error-reporting-with-locations.html
  16.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/226otd/error_reporting_with_locations/
  17. http://haste-lang.org/
  18.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/21x4wm/ann_haste_now_has_a_website_and_a_mailing_list/
  19. http://www.infoq.com/presentations/haskell-newsroom-nyt
  20.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/222i82/haskell_in_the_newsroom/
  21.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/223i80/haskell_application_architecture_best_practices/
  22.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/223i80/haskell_application_architecture_best_practices/
  23.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22872098/haskell-is-it-possible-to-make-pointfree-functions-more-readable-using-differe
  24.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22839824/how-to-detect-if-a-program-has-been-compiled-using-threaded
  25.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22807728/what-does-the-star-mean-in-this-haskell-code
  26. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22871648/what-about-arrows
  27.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22783637/triggering-a-documentation-update-for-a-hackage-package
  28.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22876370/combining-data-dynamic-and-type-classes
  29.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22807619/systematically-applying-a-function-to-all-fields-of-a-haskell-record
  30.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22828259/transforming-a-list-of-2-tuples-in-haskell
  31.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22839784/error-in-ghci-which-i-cannot-reproduce-in-written-haskell-file
  32.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22841899/why-can-i-call-a-monadic-function-without-supplying-a-monad
  33.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22850983/deriving-default-instances-using-ghc-generics
  34. https://plus.google.com/105107667630152149014/about
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