(Not really Haiku form:) Haskell Weekly News, finally back! Nooo, they just hid in the café!? So many to catch up... 3.
Oh, I'm so happy! Daniel! Thanks! - Marc Am Thursday 21 October 2010 schrieb Daniel Santa Cruz: > Hello all, > > Malcolm Wallace noticed that I had not posted the HWN to this list, > and requested that I do so. > I realize that many of you are also following -Cafe, and I do > apologize if this is a bit spamish due > to that. Hopefully some of you will find this useful. > > -Daniel > > Welcome to issue 155 of the HWN, a newsletter covering developments in > the [1]Haskell community in the week of October 10 - 16. > > This time around we again have 87 posts to HackageDB. Instead of > posting the individual packages, we get to see and celebrate the 43 > people behind these efforts. > > Want to keep a close eye on the haskellers that lurk twitter? Don > Steward made [2]a twitter list of tweeting haskellers! Let him know if > you'd like to be added to the list. > > There were a total of 24 new stories posted to the Haskell Reddit > channel, 27 new questions taged with Haskell in StackOverflow, and 408 > messages posted to Haskell-Cafe. > > So, what was hot last week? > > Announcements > > Gregory Crosswhite is pleased to [3]announce the release of a family of > packages for type-level natural numbers. He also [4]announced > tagged-list, a package which provides fixed-length lists that are > tagged with a phantom type-level natural number corresponding to the > length. > > Janis Voigtlander [5]announced that it is time to collect contributions > for the 19th edition of the Haskell Communities & Activities Report. > The submission deadline is November 1, 2010. > > Alexander Solla [6]announced his new "Facts" library. The Facts > hierarchy is meant to contain commonly used, relatively static facts > about the "real world." > > Kevin Jardine [7]announced polyToMonoid: a library that supplies two > very general polyvariadic functions that can map their arguments into > any monoid you specify. > > Simon Hengel [8]announced a new version of DocTest. DocTest now uses > Haddock for parsing of comments. > > Interesting Threads on Haskell-Cafe > > Michael Snoyman [9]reported that Haskellers.com has become popular a > lot falter that he anticipated. Read up on what changes are planned for > Haskellers.com. Michael is very interested in some help with running > the site. > > Jacek Generowicz [10]asked how to deal with dynamic dispatch on > extensible sets of types. > > Uwe Schmidt [11]replied to a question about why HXT uses arrows as > opposed to using monads. Good comments followed. > > Jason Dusek [12]asked if there is a way to write a Haskell data > structure that is necessarily only one or two or seventeen items long; > but that is nonetheless statically guaranteed to be of finite length? > Twenty-three messages followed. > > Simon Thompson [13]annouced the availability of books for review for > the Journal of Functonial Programming. > > Andrew Copping [14]summarized a report produced by Google Szwitzerland > on taking a Python system and rewriting bits of it in Haskell, some of > which is now in production use. > > Ben Franksen [15]ranted about the current "Haskell Blurb" on the first > paragraph of haskell.org. Quite the read to end the week :) > > Top Reddit Stories > > * Using Haskell’s ‘newtype’ in C > Domain: blog.nelhage.com > Score: 37, Comments: 5 > On Reddit: > http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/dptzh/using_haskells_newtype_in_c/ > Original: http://blog.nelhage.com/2010/10/using-haskells-newtype-in-c/ > > * The Haskell theme: consistent visual branding for Haskell > Domain: haskell.org > Score: 34, Comments: 11 > On Reddit: > http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/dqiej/the_haskell_theme_consistent_visual_branding_for/ > Original: > http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2010-October/084781.html > > * Haskellers: Survey results and new site features > Domain: haskellers.com > Score: 22, Comments: 6 > On Reddit: > http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/dr37b/haskellers_survey_results_and_new_site_features/ > Original: http://www.haskellers.com/news/1/ > > * My Experience Learning Haskell > Domain: blog.virtucal.com > Score: 21, Comments: 6 > On Reddit: > http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/drgcz/my_experience_learning_haskell/ > Original: > http://blog.virtucal.com/cyclical/2010/10/14/my-experience-learning-haskell.html > > * Invertible monads for exception handling and memory allocations > Domain: docs.yesodweb.com > Score: 21, Comments: 0 > On Reddit: > http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/drkdj/invertible_monads_for_exception_handling_and/ > Original: > http://docs.yesodweb.com/blog/invertible-monads-exceptions-allocations/ > > * Accelerating Haskell Array Codes with Multicore GPUs > Domain: justtesting.org > Score: 19, Comments: 0 > On Reddit: > http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/dq1yo/accelerating_haskell_array_codes_with_multicore/ > Original: > http://justtesting.org/accelerating-haskell-array-codes-with-multico > > * Unicode text performance improvements > Domain: serpentine.com > Score: 17, Comments: 1 > On Reddit: > http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/drinz/unicode_text_performance_improvements/ > Original: > http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2010/10/15/unicode-text-performance-improvements/ > > * Like a coding challenge? Check out Code Quarterly! > Domain: serpentine.com > Score: 16, Comments: 9 > On Reddit: > http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/dpjgv/like_a_coding_challenge_check_out_code_quarterly/ > Original: > http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2010/10/11/like-a-coding-challenge-check-out-code-quarterly/ > > * C9 Lecture: Ralf Lämmel on Monads > Domain: channel9.msdn.com > Score: 16, Comments: 0 > On Reddit: > http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/dq614/c9_lecture_ralf_lämmel_on_monads/ > Original: > http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/C9-Lectures-Dr-Ralf-Lmmel-AFP-The-Quick-Essence-of-Functional-Programming > > * Take the Haskellers.com survey > Domain: spreadsheets.google.com > Score: 15, Comments: 3 > On Reddit: > http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/dq7xj/take_the_haskellerscom_survey/ > Original: > https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dG8tcVhBdzRSS1lkdVV6U281emtRMWc6MQ > > Top StackOverflow Questions > > * When is memoization automatic in GHC Haskell? > Question (votes: 14, answers: 3) > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3951012/when-is-memoization-automatic-in-ghc-haskell > > * Why is my code using monadic lists from the List package so slow? > Question (votes: 12, answers: 3) > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3916444/why-is-my-code-using-monadic-lists-from-the-list-package-so-slow > > * Haskell: lift vs liftIO > Question (votes: 8, answers: 2) > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3921237/haskell-lift-vs-liftio > > * Can anyone suggest a good constraint library for Haskell? > Question (votes: 8, answers: 2) > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3926656/can-anyone-suggest-a-good-constraint-library-for-haskell > > * Library function to compose a function with itself n times > Question (votes: 6, answers: 4) > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3911060/library-function-to-compose-a-function-with-itself-n-times > > * Evaluation of a small math type language that supports one variable > Question (votes: 5, answers: 1) > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3906231/evaluation-of-a-small-math-type-language-that-supports-one-variable > > * What's the difference of a “class” in Haskell and in an “abstract > class” in OO language? > Question (votes: 5, answers: 4) > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3938779/whats-the-difference-of-a-class-in-haskell-and-in-an-abstract-class-in-oo-l > > * Haskell and State > Question (votes: 5, answers: 4) > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3944170/haskell-and-state > > * Can Haskell guard on abstract data types in a polymorphic function? > Question (votes: 5, answers: 3) > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3944756/can-haskell-guard-on-abstract-data-types-in-a-polymorphic-function > > Quotes of the Week > > * pumpkin: sounds like a lot of work! it's easier for me to just > bitch about it > * OlegKiselyov: Haskell is inconsistent in yet another way. > * monochrom: just add #! /usr/bin/runghc to your haskell file. then > type errors occur at runtime only. > * IIcke: [haskell] is like wearing a corset, at the beginning is > annoying, but then your tits look bigger and the world becomes a > better place > > Contributors to HackageDB > > Who contributed, and how many uploads did they make? > > MichaelSnoyman (14), BryanOSullivan (11), GregoryCrosswhite (5), > AndyStewart (5), GregoryCollins (4), JosePedroMagalhaes (3), > StephenBlackheath (2), SjoerdVisscher (2), PaulTalaga (2), MichaelZuo (2), > DanielDiaz (2), ConalElliott (2), AristidBreitkreuz (2), > AlexanderSolla (2), YuriyIskra (1), VivianMcPhail (1), TristanSkudlik (1), > TonyMorris (1), StephenTetley (1), SimonHengel (1), ReinierLamers (1), > OlegBelozeorov (1), NeilMitchell (1), MaxBolingbroke (1), > MatthiasBartsch (1), MatthewSottile (1), MasatakeDaimon (1), > MarkSnyder (1), ManuelChakravarty (1), LeePike (1), KiYungAhn (1), > KevinJardine (1), JustinBailey (1), IlyaPortnov (1), GeoffHulette (1), > EugeneKirpichov (1), DonaldStewart (1), DanielSeidel (1), DanielSchoepe (1), > CarlHowells (1), BenFranksen (1), ArieMiddelkoop (1), AlexSuraci (1) > > About the Haskell Weekly News > > New editions are posted to [16]the Haskell mailing list as well as to > [17]the Haskell Sequence and [18]Planet Haskell. 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The code used to produce this version > of the newsletter is not yet publicly available, as it is a complete > hack designed to get things started again. > > Until next time, > Daniel Santa Cruz > > References > > 1. http://haskell.org/ > 2. http://twitter.com/#!/donsbot/haskellers > 3. > http://groups.google.com/group/haskell-cafe/browse_thread/thread/c0071547638d7cb0 > 4. > http://groups.google.com/group/haskell-cafe/browse_thread/thread/ff95d6c78ded677f > 5. http://groups.google.com/group/haskell-cafe/msg/d9d227b0f38bcf51 > 6. > http://groups.google.com/group/haskell-cafe/browse_thread/thread/fc86bd03d091c4bf > 7. > http://groups.google.com/group/haskell-cafe/browse_thread/thread/4ba5741441d7bb33 > 8. > http://groups.google.com/group/haskell-cafe/browse_thread/thread/7982f0ad3bc9ce1d > 9. > http://groups.google.com/group/haskell-cafe/browse_thread/thread/2440a1683fe3e739 > 10. > http://groups.google.com/group/haskell-cafe/browse_thread/thread/f0a05dd5b58dc3d2 > 11. > http://groups.google.com/group/haskell-cafe/browse_thread/thread/38185e7ba6509563/c6063929f39a7197?#c6063929f39a7197 > 12. > http://groups.google.com/group/haskell-cafe/browse_thread/thread/7ba4b3b0386fb3d6 > 13. http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/sjt/JFP/available.html > 14. > http://groups.google.com/group/haskell-cafe/browse_thread/thread/81707fea2b1568ee > 15. > http://groups.google.com/group/haskell-cafe/browse_thread/thread/a7c7b569dd524934 > 16. http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell > 17. http://sequence.complete.org/ > 18. http://planet.haskell.org/ > 19. http://sequence.complete.org/node/feed > 20. http://haskell.org/ > _______________________________________________ > Haskell mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell >
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