Welcome to issue 201 of the HWN, a newsletter covering developments in
the Haskell community. This release covers the week of September 18 to
24, 2011.
You can find the HTML version of this issue at:
http://contemplatecode.blogspot.com/2011/09/haskell-weekly-news-issue-201.html
Announcements
Jasper Van der Jeugt sent more details about the 9th GhentFPG
meeting, which will take place on October the 4th, at 19:30 in the
Technicum building of Ghent University. You don't have to be a
Functional Programming guru to attend, everyone eager to learn is
welcome.
[1] http://goo.gl/hAa5Zn
New and Updated Projects
* usb, bindings-libusb, usb-iteratee (Bas van Dijk; 1.0, 1.4.4,
0.4) Wrapers around the portable C library libusb-1.0
[2] http://goo.gl/lTMNJn
* ivy-web (James Deng; 0.1) A lightweight web framework, with
type-safe routes, based on invertible syntax, and i18n support,
influenced by Django, Snap and Yesod.
[3] http://goo.gl/dTcPEn
* lushtags (Bit Connor) ctags compatible tags files for Haskell
programs.
[4] http://goo.gl/30TYen
* lightweight monadic regions family (Bas van Dijk; multiple
versions) Updates to regios, regions-mtl, regions-monadstf,
regional-pointers, safer-file-handles,
safer-file-handles-bytestring, safer-file-handles-text, and
usb-safe.
[5] http://goo.gl/g8P6Kn
* skein (Felipe Almeida Lessa; 0.1) A family of fast secure
cryptographic hash functions.
[6] http://goo.gl/xwafmn
Quotes of the Week
* dafis: I thought a C++ friend class was one you allowed to touch
your private parts
* edwardk: any time i can help, just ask. i may not actually help, but
i'll be sure to note your suffering.
* edwardk: i have a lot fewer [haddock problems] now since i stopped
bothering trying to document ;)
* edwardk: Had i thought of it earlier i could have named trifecta
kessel run. at this point it looks like it'll contain at least 12
parsecs.
* ddarius: The history of iteratees is making a simple idea complex.
* shachaf: You can never escape having learned monads. If you learn
two monads, though, you can go back to only knowing one.
Top Reddit Stories
* GHCi now supports all top-level declarations
Domain: github.com, Score: 104, Comments: 35
On Reddit: [7] http://goo.gl/GfTc9n
Original: [8] http://goo.gl/Md5B3n
* The best ghc bug ever
Domain: twitter.com, Score: 93, Comments: 27
On Reddit: [9] http://goo.gl/3sCHUn
Original: [10] http://goo.gl/N7IGdn
* Running a startup on Haskell
Domain: bos.github.com, Score: 73, Comments: 33
On Reddit: [11] http://goo.gl/HevD3n
Original: [12] http://goo.gl/IsXedn
* No chrome, Haskell is not Danish.
Domain: i.imgur.com, Score: 73, Comments: 26
On Reddit: [13] http://goo.gl/AYyq4n
Original: [14] http://goo.gl/whKijn
* Did Haskell Platform miss the July release? It's already September.
Domain: trac.haskell.org, Score: 46, Comments: 12
On Reddit: [15] http://goo.gl/6m8Yln
Original: [16] http://goo.gl/r9k6tn
* Iteratees at Tsuru Capital: various contributions to the hackage
iteratee library used in a production trading system
Domain: blog.kfish.org, Score: 36, Comments: 12
On Reddit: [17] http://goo.gl/rCTO6n
Original: [18] http://goo.gl/PikaAn
* Apprendre Haskell vous fera le plus grand bien ! -- LYAH in French
Domain: lyah.haskell.fr, Score: 33, Comments: 15
On Reddit: [19] http://goo.gl/pV3jvn
Original: [20] http://goo.gl/ixiXWn
* Would You Bet $100,000,000 on Haskell?
Domain: digitalmars.com, Score: 28, Comments: 44
On Reddit: [21] http://goo.gl/oPI5Kn
Original: [22] http://goo.gl/YYeOln
* Galois offers Haskell course: The Tao of Functional Programming
Domain: corp.galois.com, Score: 26, Comments: 9
On Reddit: [23] http://goo.gl/6HX8Kn
Original: [24] http://goo.gl/n7urdn
Top StackOverflow Questions
* What are Haskell's strictness points?
votes: 59, answers: 7
Read on SO: [25] http://goo.gl/5PiDHn
* Can someone explain the traverse function in Haskell
votes: 14, answers: 3
Read on SO: [26] http://goo.gl/P5WtFn
* Why do we have map, fmap and liftM?
votes: 13, answers: 1
Read on SO: [27] http://goo.gl/TCRKwn
* Does a function like this already exist? (Or, what's a better name for
this function?)
votes: 12, answers: 4
Read on SO: [28] http://goo.gl/QY6i8n
* Question about the ~ and @ operators in Haskell
votes: 11, answers: 2
Read on SO: [29] http://goo.gl/pXnV6n
* Folding across Maybes in Haskell
votes: 8, answers: 5
Read on SO: [30] http://goo.gl/y1ALtn
* How is foldl lazy?
votes: 7, answers: 4
Read on SO: [31] http://goo.gl/LQAxNn
* avoid explicit passing of lookup table
votes: 7, answers: 4
Read on SO: [32] http://goo.gl/tKh2wn
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