Hi, Could/should the Haskell Weekly News be posted to the beginners list as well?
I normally don't follow haskell-cafe (too much traffic and generally above my level I must admit...), but I like to follow what's going on in the Haskell community. Patrick On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 3:47 AM, <jfred...@gmail.com> wrote: > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Haskell Weekly News > http://sequence.complete.org/hwn/20091010 > Issue 134 - October 10, 2009 > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Welcome to issue 134 of HWN, a newsletter covering developments in the > [1]Haskell community. > > What with Don Stewart's [2]call to [3]arms to lead Haskell to conquest > over (E)DSL-land, I've once again tried to highlight discussion of > EDSL's this week. Fortunately, it was actually more difficult choosing > what _not_ to include this week, since there was so much discussion > about DSLs and Syntax extensions (a related notion, in my opinion). > Also, this week Bryan O'Sullivan put his Criterion Library to good use > on the `text` package, leading to [4]code which is more than ten times > faster than before! With all this fantastic news, I won't hold you up > any longer, Haskellers, the Haskell Weekly News! > > Announcements > > CfPart: FMICS 2009, 2-3 November 2009, Final Call. FMICS 2009 workshop > chair [5]announced the final call for particpaction for FMICS 2009 > > ICFP videos now available. Wouter Swierstra [6]announced the > availablity of videos from the International Conference on Functional > Programming (ICFP) > > GPipe-1.0.0: A functional graphics API for programmable GPUs. Tobias > Bexelius [7]announced the first release of GPie, a functional graphics > API for programmable GPUs. > > text 0.5, a major revision of the Unicode text library. Bryan > O'Sullivan [8]announced a new, major version of the text package. New > API features, and huge improvments in speed, as Bryan says, 'Get it > while it's fresh on Hackage, folks!' > > vty-ui 0.2. Jonathan Daugherty [9]announced a new version of the vty-ui > package, with fewer bugs, more widgets, and cleaner code due to new > more powerful abstractions. > > htzaar-0.0.1. Tom Hawkins [10]announced HTZAAR, a Haskell > implementation of TZAAR > > Graphalyze-0.8.0.0 and SourceGraph-0.5.5.0. Ivan Lazar Miljenovic > [11]announced To keep this editor happy, Ivan released two new packaged > in one announcement. This time, he's added Legend support to > Graphalyze, but also many new changes to SourceGraph, including a > legend so you can see what all the symbols mean, Better color support, > and much more. > > TxtSushi 0.4.0. Keith Sheppard [12]announced a new version of TxtSushi, > a set of command line utilities for processing CSV and TSV files. > > Discussion > > Applicative do? Philippa Cowderoy [13]asked about a `do` like syntax > for Applicative functors. > > How to add use custom preprocessor in cabal. Bernd Brassel [14]asked > how to add a custom preprocessor to the build chain of a cabal file. > > On DSLs - one last time. Gunther Schmidt [15]summarized his impressions > on al the recent discussion of DSLs > > What is a DSL? Oleg [16]offered some insight into different > [17]properties that can be part of a single tagless framework. He also > pointed to some slides and other materials such as a website [18]here > and slides [19]here about DSL implementations and definitions. > > What is a DSL? Gunther Schmidt [20]posed the question, 'What is a DSL', > and with some further questions added by yours truly, a lively > discussion about the definition of a DSL ensued. > > Finally tagless - stuck with implementation of 'lam'. Gunther Schmidt > [21]asked another question about Finally Tagless DSLs and resolving an > issue with the implementation of 'lam' > > Blog noise > > [22]Haskell news from the [23]blogosphere. Blog posts from people new > to the Haskell community are marked with >>>, be sure to welcome them! > * Darcs: [24]darcs weekly news #43. > * JP Moresmau: [25]What client for an Haskell Multi Player Game?. > * Mikael Vejdemo Johansson (Syzygy-): [26][MATH198] Third lecture is > up. > * Bryan O'Sullivan: [27]Announcing a major revision of the Haskell > text library. > * Eric Kow (kowey): [28]darcs hashed-storage work merged (woo!). > * David Amos: [29]Symmetries of PG(n,Fq). > * The GHC Team: [30]Parallelism /= Concurrency. > * >>> Nefigah: [31]Fake World Haskell. Nefigah, a recent addition to > the community, has been working through RWH, and is providing some > excellent examples. Though, This editor prefers the title 'Real > Life Haskell' as opposed to his choice. > * Tom Schrijvers: [32]Release 0.6 of Monadic Constraint Programming. > * Neil Brown: [33]Concurrency Can Be Deterministic (But The Type > System Doesn't Know It). > * Clint Moore: [34]Curiously Parallel. > * Galois, Inc: [35]Tech Talk: Constructing A Universal Domain for > Reasoning About Haskell Datatypes. > * Neil Brown: [36]Terminal Concurrency: The Printing Process. > * Sean Leather: [37]'Upwards and downwards accumulations on trees' > translated into Haskell. > * Mikael Vejdemo Johansson (Syzygy-): [38][MATH 198] Second lecture. > * Chris Smith: [39]View Patterns as Pattern Matching for Records. > * Chris Smith: [40]Playing With Records. > * FP Lunch: [41]Left Kan extensions of containers. > > Quotes of the Week > > * Baughn: Blum Blum Shub, a PRNG derived from poking around R'Lyeh. > * ksf: * lambdabot locks up ksf in a Monad <ksf> mmmmh it's warm and > fuzzy in here. > * monochrom: Don't wrap your head around Haskell. Immerse! Wrap > Haskell around your head. > * chak: ... In other words, FP is inevitable. > * robreim: I'm in your base hacking all your lambdas > * gwern: RAM is overrated, swap is where it's at ;) > * idnar: [to gwern] swap to a ramdisk! ;P > > About the Haskell Weekly News > > New editions are posted to [42]the Haskell mailing list as well as to > [43]the Haskell Sequence and [44]Planet Haskell. [45]RSS is also > available, and headlines appear on [46]haskell.org. > > To help create new editions of this newsletter, please see the > information on [47]how to contribute. Send stories to jfredett . at . > gmail . dot . com. The darcs repository is available at darcs get > [48]http://patch-tag.com/r/jfredett/HWN2/pullrepo HWN2 . > > References > > 1. http://haskell.org/ > 2. > http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2009-October/067203.html > 3. > http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/9qk54/haskell_should_own_the_edsl_space_a_call_to_arms/ > 4. > http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2009/10/09/announcing-a-major-revision-of-the-haskell-text-library/ > 5. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/17555 > 6. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/17552 > 7. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/17546 > 8. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/64591 > 9. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/64529 > 10. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/64516 > 11. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/64399 > 12. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/64301 > 13. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/64616 > 14. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/64558 > 15. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/64552 > 16. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/64533 > 17. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/ > 18. http://dsl09.blogspot.com/ > 19. http://dsl09.blogspot.com/2009/07/panel.html > 20. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/64474 > 21. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/64343 > 22. http://planet.haskell.org/ > 23. http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Blog_articles > 24. http://blog.darcs.net/2009/10/darcs-weekly-news-43.html > 25. > http://jpmoresmau.blogspot.com/2009/10/what-client-for-haskell-multi-player.html > 26. > http://blog.mikael.johanssons.org/archive/2009/10/math198-third-lecture-is-up/ > 27. > http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2009/10/09/announcing-a-major-revision-of-the-haskell-text-library/ > 28. > http://koweycode.blogspot.com/2009/10/darcs-hashed-storage-work-merged-woo.html > 29. http://haskellformaths.blogspot.com/2009/10/symmetries-of-pgnfq.html > 30. > http://ghcmutterings.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/parallelism-concurrency/ > 31. http://my.life-is-virtual.com/2009/10/07/fake-world-haskell-part-1/ > 32. > http://tomschrijvers.blogspot.com/2009/10/release-06-of-monadic-constraint.html > 33. > http://chplib.wordpress.com/2009/10/07/concurrency-can-be-deterministic/ > 34. http://www.l2mlogistics.com/2009/10/curiously-parallel.html > 35. http://www.galois.com/blog/2009/10/06/huffman-universal/ > 36. http://chplib.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/the-printing-process/ > 37. > http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/splonderzoek/~3/4E8TZPDZ-aM/upwards-and-downwards-accumulations-on.html<http://feedproxy.google.com/%7Er/splonderzoek/%7E3/4E8TZPDZ-aM/upwards-and-downwards-accumulations-on.html> > 38. > http://blog.mikael.johanssons.org/archive/2009/10/math-198-second-lecture/ > 39. > http://cdsmith.wordpress.com/2009/10/04/view-patterns-as-pattern-matching-for-records/ > 40. http://cdsmith.wordpress.com/2009/10/03/playing-with-records/ > 41. http://sneezy.cs.nott.ac.uk/fplunch/weblog/?p=237 > 42. http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell > 43. http://sequence.complete.org/ > 44. http://planet.haskell.org/ > 45. http://sequence.complete.org/node/feed > 46. http://haskell.org/ > 47. http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/HWN > 48. http://patch-tag.com/r/jfredett/HWN2/pullrepo%20HWN2 > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > -- ===================== Patrick LeBoutillier Rosemère, Québec, Canada
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