Welcome to issue 178 of the HWN, a newsletter covering developments in the Haskell community. This release covers the week of April 10 to 16, 2011.
You can find the HTML version at: http://bit.ly/feMLgB Announcements Simon Marlow commented (http://goo.gl/XythI) on plans to have a Hackathon at MSR Cambridge this summer. Dr. Heinrich Hordegen informed us (http://goo.gl/lQvqw) of the creation of a Munich funtional programmers' user group. Help us spread the word to anyone interested in functional programming in general. Eric Y. Kow announced (http://goo.gl/PYdKI) the creation of the parallel-haskell mailing list. "The group exists to bring together the various groups in the Haskell community that are working on parallelism. It is intended to provide some visibility into the various efforts and to encourage collaboration." Don Stewart announced (http://goo.gl/0nWn2) the release of the Haskell Platform 2011.2.0.1. "This release adds support for GHC 7.0.3, and significant improvements for Mac OS X users." Quotes of the Week * Gregory Collins: "Easy to use" and "high performance" don't have to be contradictory, but you shouldn't neglect the latter. * xplat: haskell is good for portability. it can run well on any sort of x86 unix, which is all there is after all. * Spockz: it's just that my first name isn't Simon so I'm not allowed to use unsafePerformIO :P * djahandarie: Category theorists are morphisms for turning cofree theorems into free theorems. * monochrom: lambdabot is partially broken and partially correct when it comes to utf-8 * mm_freak: > case analysis of syntax -> bullshit <lambdabot> True Top Reddit Stories * Simon Peyton-Jones – A Taste Of Haskell Domain: ontwik.com, Score: 57, Comments: On Reddit: http://goo.gl/fCxtx Original: http://goo.gl/4LpJQ * Really, HaskellWiki, really? Domain: i.imgur.com, Score: 43, Comments: 13 On Reddit: http://goo.gl/HTigS Original: http://i.imgur.com/fPpby.png * Haskell Platform 2011.2.0.1 is out -- major improvements for Mac users Domain: hackage.haskell.org, Score: 39, Comments: 9 On Reddit: http://goo.gl/BJWwp Original: http://goo.gl/5vbN8 * Tracing the compilation of Hello Factorial in GHC Domain: blog.ezyang.com, Score: 36, Comments: 1 On Reddit: http://goo.gl/WNA2Z Original: http://goo.gl/fsVtS * acid-state: use regular Haskell data structures without worrying about data loss or durability Domain: haskell.org, Score: 32, Comments: 5 On Reddit: http://goo.gl/2hgGj Original: http://goo.gl/tKpV2 * Persistence of Memory: persistent vs ephemeral data structures Domain: existentialtype.wordpress.com, Score: 28, Comments: 5 On Reddit: http://goo.gl/Ss70R Original: http://goo.gl/XHdJV * Bugs from using the wrong variable Domain: blog.ezyang.com, Score: 26, Comments: 11 On Reddit: http://goo.gl/x7RId Original: http://goo.gl/3HJs2 * Cost of calling Haskell from C? Domain: stackoverflow.com, Score: 20, Comments: 1 On Reddit: http://goo.gl/6OiRH Original: http://goo.gl/XfmRe * Comparing Snap and Yesod Domain: stackoverflow.com, Score: 19, Comments: 4 On Reddit: http://goo.gl/P0Gr6 Original: http://goo.gl/dvbEe * Announcing: Heist v0.5.1 Domain: snapframework.com, Score: 17, Comments: On Reddit: http://goo.gl/cIja8 Original: http://goo.gl/d7FWG Top StackOverflow Questions * Comparing Haskell's Snap and Yesod web frameworks votes: 28, answers: 4 Read on SO: http://goo.gl/AhFH5 * Haskell library for 2D drawing votes: 19, answers: 4 Read on SO: http://goo.gl/61C4e * One REPL to bind them all? votes: 19, answers: 3 Read on SO: http://goo.gl/JUFS2 * Performance considerations of Haskell FFI / C? votes: 16, answers: 4 Read on SO: http://goo.gl/tldoX * What is Haskell's style of polymorphism? votes: 13, answers: 1 Read on SO: http://goo.gl/z3JzT About the Haskell Weekly News To help create new editions of this newsletter, please send stories to dstc...@gmail.com. Until next time, Daniel Santa Cruz _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
