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Haskell Weekly News
http://sequence.complete.org/hwn/20091003
Issue 134 - October 03, 2009
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Welcome to issue 134 of HWN, a newsletter covering developments in
the
[1]Haskell community.
I have a nasty sinus infection this week, so we're somewhat light on
content. Lots of good discussion about DSL related stuff this week.
Bryan O'Sullivan also release 'Criterion' this week, a new
benchmarking
library that Don Stewart described (on reddit) as 'awesome and game
changing.' A new TMR editor -- someone familiar -- was announced.
Also,
there was some talk about homework policies on the mailinglists
and in
the irc channels. There is a [2]page on the Haskell wiki about this,
but to sum it up in a maxim, remember, 'Help, don't do'. Until next
week, the Haskell Weekly News!
Announcements
New TMR editor. Wouter Swierstra [3]announced that he would be
stepping
down from the editorship of 'The Monad Reader', with former HWN
editor
Brent Yorgey taking his place. Much thanks for Wouter's hard work
and
good luck to Brent on his new editor job!
SourceGraph 0.5.{0,1,2}.0. Ivan Lazar Miljenovic [4]announced
three new
releases of the SourceGraph packages, this links to the latest
release.
json-b-0.0.4. Jason Dusek [5]announced a new version of the json-b
package, which fixes defective handling of empty objects and arrays.
rss2irc 0.4 released. Simon Michael [6]announced a new release of
rss2irc, with many new improvements and features.
vty-ui 0.1. Jonathan Daugherty [7]announced vty-ui, which is an
extensible library of user interface widgets for composing and
laying
out Vty user interfaces.
atom-0.1.1. Tom Hawkins [8]announced Atom, a Haskell DSL for
designing
hard real-time embedded applications.
Graphalyze-0.7.0.0. Ivan Lazar Miljenovic [9]announced (in an
apparent
effort to take over hackage by submitting dozens of quality
packages at
absurdly high speed), Graphalyze, a library for using graph-
theoretic
techniques to analyse the relationships inherent within discrete
data.
Criterion. Bryan O'Sullivan [10]announced (without tacking on an
'ANN'
tag, I might add, I almost missed it!) Criterion, a benchmarking
library he describes [11]here.
ListTree 0.1. yair...@gmail.com [12]announced ListTree, a package
for
combinatorial search and pruning of trees.
usb-0.1. Bas van Dijk [13]announced a library for interacting with
usb
modules from userspace.
(Deadline extended to October 5th) APLAS 2009 Call for Posters.
Kiminori Matsuzaki [14]announced a deadline extension to the call
for
posters for the APLAS conference.
graphviz-2999.6.0.0. Ivan Lazar Miljenovic [15]announced a new
version
of the graphviz library, which features various new features and
small
changes.
Discussion
Testing polymorphic properties with QuickCheck. Jean-Philippe
Bernardy
[16]gave an excellent overview about how to use QuickCheck to test
polymorphic properties.
Designing a DSL? Gunther Schmidt [17]asked about different methods
employed for designing a DSL.
DSL and GUI Toolkits. Gunther Schmidt [18]also asked about different
DSLs for working with GUIs
error on "--++ bla bla bla". Hong Yang [19]asked about why '--++'
wasn't being parsed in the way he thought it was.
Haskell for Physicists. edgar [20]requested name suggestions for the
talk he is giving about Physics and Haskell.
Blog noise
[21]Haskell news from the [22]blogosphere. Blog posts from people
new
to the Haskell community are marked with >>>, be sure to welcome
them!
* Sean Leather: [23]'Extensibility and type safety in
formatting: the
design of xformat' at the Dutch HUG.
* Martijn van Steenbergen: [24]let 5 = 6.
* Lee Pike: [25]Writer's unblock.
* Manuel M T Chakravarty: [26]NVIDIAs next generation GPU
architecture has a lot for HPC to love.
* David Amos: [27]Finite geometries, part 4: Lines in PG(n,Fq).
* Bryan O'Sullivan: [28]New criterion release works on Macs.
* Neil Brown: [29]Poison: Concurrent Termination.
* The GHC Team: [30]Heads up: what you need to know about
Unicode I/O
in GHC 6.12.1.
* Galois, Inc: [31]Tech Talk: Roll Your Own Test Bed for Embedded
Real-Time Protocols: A Haskell Experience.
* Bryan O'Sullivan: [32]Criterion, a new benchmarking library for
Haskell.
* Tom Schrijvers: [33]Monadic Constraint Programming.
* Neil Brown: [34]Growing Sort Pump.
Quotes of the Week
* dekudekuplex: (Unfortunately (unless intentional)) the preceding
(by ksf (in the 'Quotes of the Week' section)) quote had
mismatched
(one too many opening) parentheses (although it was still funny
(even though it could have been edited (to make the parentheses
match (even though that is not an important issue)))).
* pozic: I think if you want to contact dons, you have to say that
you found a bug in ByteString.
* Veinor: [about dibblego kicking a whole bunch of spammers]
crouching dibblego, hidden op
* allbery_b: [on UndecidableInstances] 'this exceeds my easy
threshold, turn on wizard mode' (at which point it becomes a lot
smarter but may start contemplating its navel without warning)
* byorgey: a bus error? try recompiling with -fsubway, perhaps
* jafet: 'Zygomorphism' sounds like a reproductive disorder
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References
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15. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/17520
16. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/17535
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28.
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29. http://chplib.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/poison-concurrent-termination/
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