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Haskell Weekly News
http://sequence.complete.org/hwn/20091213
Issue 142 - December 13, 2009
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Welcome to issue 142 of HWN, a newsletter covering developments in the
[1]Haskell community.
First of all, apologies for the late edition, I've only one set of
finals left, and then everything should return to a normal schedule (at
least, that's the plan). This week brings lots of development on the
various usb utilities, an edition of the Haskell Web News (which
covers, in summary, the events of the previous month in the Haskell
online community), and some really great discussion about why Haskell
is Pure. Until next week, Haskeller's, your Haskell Weekly News!
Announcements
Next meeting: December 17th at MIT (32-G882). Ravi Nanavati
[2]announced the next meeting of the Boston Area Haskell User Group.
Ryan Newton will be talking about Intel Concurrent Collections for
Haskell.
PCLT-0.1 and PCLT-DB-0.1. Andrey Sisoyev [3]announced his first two
packages he's developed in Haskell. Both of his new packages relate to
localization of packages.
Announcing a summer internship for a NASA-sponsored project. Lee Pike
[4]announced a new summer internship sponsored by NASA and Galois, Inc.
unicode-symbols-0.1.1. Roel van Dijk [5]announced the release of his
package 'unicode-symbols'. This packages offers alternative symbols for
a number of common function and operators from the base and container
packages.
ls-usb-0.1.0.2. Roel van Dijk [6]announced a minor update of ls-usb,
his package for listing USB devices connected to your system.
usb-safe-0.1. Bas van Dijk [7]announced the release of his package
usb-safe, which provides an abstract interface to the bindings-libusb
library.
usb-0.3. Bas van Dijk [8]announced a new release of his 'usb' library
for high-level communication with usb devices from Haskell.
bindings-libusb-1.4.2. Bas van Dijk [9]announced a new version of
bindings-libusb, a DSL based, low level binding to libusb
The Haskell Web News: December 2009 Edition. Don Stewart [10]announced
the Haskell Web News for December.
new installment of failure framework. Michael Snoyman [11]announced the
next installment of the Failure Framework.
PortAudio Windows Tutorial and Binaries. M Xyz [12]announced a tutorial
for setting up PortAudio on Windows
readline-statevar-1.0.1.0. Krzysztof Skrzetnicki [13]announced a small
wrapper for readline.
hakyll-0.1. Jasper van der Jeugt [14]announced Hakyll, a simple static
site generator written in Haskell.
Discussion
Why? John D. Earle [15]asked about what benefits of purity in Haskell.
Type system speculation. Andrew Coppin [16]asked about why we
Haskeller's (including himself) are so obsessed with the type system.
To Hackage or not to Hackage. John Van Enk [17]asked about whether it
was worth putting a package on Hackage.
Hayoo and Hoogle (beginner question). drostin77 [18]asked our
'Hopefully Helpful Haskell Community' about the differences between
Hoogle and Hayoo.
Blog noise
[19]Haskell news from the [20]blogosphere. Blog posts from people new
to the Haskell community are marked with , be sure to welcome them!
* Manuel M T Chakravarty: [21]Using DTrace to track scheduler events
of GHC's runtime.
* Darcs: [22]darcs weekly news #47.
* Brent Yorgey: [23]Mgu's and universal properties.
* Philip Wadler: [24]Computer Science Education Week.
* Bryan O'Sullivan: [25]The performance of Data.Text.
* Neil Brown: [26]Solving the Santa Claus Problem with Conjunction.
* Douglas M. Auclair (geophf): [27]Don't know; don't care: Whatever.
* Ivan Lazar Miljenovic: [28]Command Input/Output and blocking.
* Galois, Inc: [29]Tech Talk: John Launchbury presents Conal
Elliottâs âBeautiful Differentiationâ.
* Well-Typed.Com: [30]Talk at the Functional Programming eXchange.
* Neil Brown: [31]The Problem with Parallel Participants Professing
Priority.
* Sean Leather: [32]Draft: Pull-Ups, Push-Downs, and Passing It
Around: Exercises in Functional Incrementalization.
* Mikael Vejdemo Johansson (Syzygy-): [33]Coordinatization with hom
complexes.
* Haskell Web News: [34]What's new in Haskell? December 2009.
* Dan Piponi (sigfpe): [35]Where do monads come from?.
* Michael Snoyman: [36]Two language extensions.
Quotes of the Week
* sproingie: | {-# LANGUAGE NoTypeChecking #-}
* kmc: the usual structure for a Haskell program is a crunchy IO
shell with a gooey chocolate pure function center
* sproingie: if it makes Cale's brane asplode, i think there's no
hope for me understanding it
* Wikipedia: In topology, the long line (or Alexandroff line) is a
