[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 303

Thu Aug 28 05:40:57 UTC 2014

Welcome to issue 303 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits
of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers
from August 17 to 23, 2014

Quotes of the Week

   * monochrom: "point free" can be decomposed to: "point" refers to
                ".", "free" refers to using no "$". :)

Top Reddit Stories

   * λ Bubble Pop!
     Domain: chrisuehlinger.com, Score: 97, Comments: 41
     Original: [1] http://goo.gl/hVQq2F
     On Reddit: [2] http://goo.gl/OQWXK2

   * The fundamental problem of programming language package management
     Domain: blog.ezyang.com, Score: 82, Comments: 54
     Original: [3] http://goo.gl/fWmA0P
     On Reddit: [4] http://goo.gl/PfJbY0

   * How Programming language subreddits talk (including Haskell)
     Domain: github.com, Score: 72, Comments: 31
     Original: [5] http://goo.gl/2Ef0tB
     On Reddit: [6] http://goo.gl/KpTH74

   * A fast, generic and type-safe image processing library written in
Haskell
     Domain: hackage.haskell.org, Score: 59, Comments: 27
     Original: [7] http://goo.gl/Pmeot3
     On Reddit: [8] http://goo.gl/Veffgp

   * GHC company-mode
     Domain: github.com, Score: 58, Comments: 7
     Original: [9] http://goo.gl/UVDEhl
     On Reddit: [10] http://goo.gl/uuxRCd

   * Hase - bringing state-of-the-art NLP to Haskell
     Domain: github.com, Score: 55, Comments: 8
     Original: [11] http://goo.gl/l39RVB
     On Reddit: [12] http://goo.gl/A8FI9k

   * Lens 4.4 release notes
     Domain: self.haskell, Score: 54, Comments: 18
     Original: [13] http://goo.gl/WjndWF
     On Reddit: [14] http://goo.gl/WjndWF

   * Jobs: Haskell developer roles at Standard Chartered
     Domain: donsbot.wordpress.com, Score: 48, Comments: 21
     Original: [15] http://goo.gl/ik0pc3
     On Reddit: [16] http://goo.gl/vDC3Jn

   * Speeding up conduit
     Domain: fpcomplete.com, Score: 42, Comments: 27
     Original: [17] http://goo.gl/wdbJVY
     On Reddit: [18] http://goo.gl/hfnyhj

   * Why is GHC Runtime Enviornment in C?
     Domain: self.haskell, Score: 39, Comments: 34
     Original: [19] http://goo.gl/9uh3YJ
     On Reddit: [20] http://goo.gl/9uh3YJ

   * An introduction to QuickCheck by example: Number theory and
     Okasaki's red-black trees
     Domain: matt.might.net, Score: 37, Comments: 1
     Original: [21] http://goo.gl/DnXQrK
     On Reddit: [22] http://goo.gl/zkLzQi

   * [ANN] dash-haskell: Package dependency approximate documentation
     look-up & access for IDE(s) (Emacs,Vim+)
     Domain: github.com, Score: 31, Comments: 9
     Original: [23] http://goo.gl/Z6HHFK
     On Reddit: [24] http://goo.gl/jxtJWW

   * Deprecating yesod-platform
     Domain: yesodweb.com, Score: 30, Comments: 10
     Original: [25] http://goo.gl/C3sSj9
     On Reddit: [26] http://goo.gl/P5w22y

   * Building Monad Transformers.
     Domain: jakubarnold.cz, Score: 25, Comments: 8
     Original: [27] http://goo.gl/SBeulZ
     On Reddit: [28] http://goo.gl/0a5vYr

   * Better code readability with Vim Haskell Conceal+
     Domain: github.com, Score: 20, Comments: 44
     Original: [29] http://goo.gl/2pNWCz
     On Reddit: [30] http://goo.gl/FMThMu

   * What's the best practice for building a DSL in haskell?
     Domain: self.haskell, Score: 19, Comments: 22
     Original: [31] http://goo.gl/v9fIO8
     On Reddit: [32] http://goo.gl/v9fIO8

   * Object-Oriented Style Overloading for Haskell
     Domain: research.microsoft.com, Score: 18, Comments: 9
     Original: [33] http://goo.gl/SPkDps
     On Reddit: [34] http://goo.gl/UwF6X5

   * SmartChecking Matt Might’s Red-Black Trees
     Domain: leepike.wordpress.com, Score: 18, Comments: 0
     Original: [35] http://goo.gl/gd5aUQ
     On Reddit: [36] http://goo.gl/9Ubkra

Top StackOverflow Questions

   * What kinds of type errors can Haskell catch at compile time that
     Java cannot? [closed]
     votes: 23, answers: 4
     Read on SO: [37] http://goo.gl/19MljX

   * How to link custom object file with Haskell library
     votes: 18, answers: 0
     Read on SO: [38] http://goo.gl/K6uC0X

   * Finding where <<loop>> happened
     votes: 17, answers: 2
     Read on SO: [39] http://goo.gl/kby69L

   * What exactly makes Option a monad in Scala?
     votes: 17, answers: 3
     Read on SO: [40] http://goo.gl/whDpHu

   * Arrow without arr
     votes: 16, answers: 0
     Read on SO: [41] http://goo.gl/VBbo0Z

   * max and min with NaN in Haskell
     votes: 15, answers: 3
     Read on SO: [42] http://goo.gl/xLFDhm

   * Simplifying a GADT with Uniplate
     votes: 11, answers: 1
     Read on SO: [43] http://goo.gl/uWL1pI

   * Trying to apply CPS to an interpreter
     votes: 9, answers: 1
     Read on SO: [44] http://goo.gl/kCtbcq

   * Jumping forward with the continuation monad
     votes: 8, answers: 1
     Read on SO: [45] http://goo.gl/fBKheg

   Until next time,
   [46]+Daniel Santa Cruz

References

   1. http://chrisuehlinger.com/LambdaBubblePop/
   2. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2eak9t/%CE%BB_bubble_pop/
   3.
http://blog.ezyang.com/2014/08/the-fundamental-problem-of-programming-language-package-management/
   4.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2e74cn/the_fundamental_problem_of_programming_language/
   5.
https://github.com/Dobiasd/programming-language-subreddits-and-their-choice-of-words
   6.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2e3ie6/how_programming_language_subreddits_talk/
   7. https://hackage.haskell.org/package/friday
   8.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2e6cof/a_fast_generic_and_typesafe_image_processing/
   9. https://github.com/iquiw/company-ghc
  10. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2ebcim/ghc_companymode/
  11. https://github.com/slyrz/hase
  12.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2edwtj/hase_bringing_stateoftheart_nlp_to_haskell/
  13. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2e9918/lens_44_release_notes/
  14. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2e9918/lens_44_release_notes/
  15.
http://donsbot.wordpress.com/2014/08/17/haskell-development-job-at-standard-chartered/
  16.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2dsndt/jobs_haskell_developer_roles_at_standard_chartered/
  17. https://www.fpcomplete.com/blog/2014/08/iap-speeding-up-conduit
  18. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2e5ykd/speeding_up_conduit/
  19.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2dx5rt/why_is_ghc_runtime_enviornment_in_c/
  20.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2dx5rt/why_is_ghc_runtime_enviornment_in_c/
  21. http://matt.might.net/articles/quick-quickcheck/
  22.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2dykb7/an_introduction_to_quickcheck_by_example_number/
  23. http://www.github.com/jfeltz/dash-haskell
  24.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2dv68h/ann_dashhaskell_package_dependency_approximate/
  25. http://www.yesodweb.com/blog/2014/08/deprecating-yesod-platform
  26.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2e1doq/deprecating_yesodplatform/
  27.
http://jakubarnold.cz/2014/07/22/building-monad-transformers-part-1.html
  28.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2duen1/building_monad_transformers/
  29. https://github.com/enomsg/vim-haskellConcealPlus
  30.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2dxg0h/better_code_readability_with_vim_haskell_conceal/
  31.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2e8d53/whats_the_best_practice_for_building_a_dsl_in/
  32.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2e8d53/whats_the_best_practice_for_building_a_dsl_in/
  33.
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers/oo-haskell/overloading.pdf
  34.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2dyhbn/objectoriented_style_overloading_for_haskell/
  35.
http://leepike.wordpress.com/2014/08/20/smartchecking-matt-mights-red-black-trees/
  36.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2e5t39/smartchecking_matt_mights_redblack_trees/
  37.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25374362/what-kinds-of-type-errors-can-haskell-catch-at-compile-time-that-java-cannot
  38.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25424615/how-to-link-custom-object-file-with-haskell-library
  39.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25359461/finding-where-loop-happened
  40.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25361203/what-exactly-makes-option-a-monad-in-scala
  41. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25394745/arrow-without-arr
  42.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25375294/max-and-min-with-nan-in-haskell
  43.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25355570/simplifying-a-gadt-with-uniplate
  44.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25365900/trying-to-apply-cps-to-an-interpreter
  45.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25412238/jumping-forward-with-the-continuation-monad
  46. https://plus.google.com/105107667630152149014/about
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