Welcome to issue 155 of the HWN, a newsletter covering developments in
the [1]Haskell community in the week of October 10 - 16.
This time around we again have 87 posts to HackageDB. Instead of
posting the individual packages, we get to see and celebrate the 43
people behind these efforts.
Want to keep a close eye on the haskellers that lurk twitter? Don
Steward made [2]a twitter list of tweeting haskellers! Let him know if
you'd like to be added to the list.
There were a total of 24 new stories posted to the Haskell Reddit
channel, 27 new questions taged with Haskell in StackOverflow, and 408
messages posted to Haskell-Cafe.
So, what was hot last week?
Announcements
Gregory Crosswhite is pleased to [3]announce the release of a family of
packages for type-level natural numbers. He also [4]announced
tagged-list, a package which provides fixed-length lists that are
tagged with a phantom type-level natural number corresponding to the
length.
Janis Voigtlander [5]announced that it is time to collect contributions
for the 19th edition of the Haskell Communities & Activities Report.
The submission deadline is November 1, 2010.
Alexander Solla [6]announced his new "Facts" library. The Facts
hierarchy is meant to contain commonly used, relatively static facts
about the "real world."
Kevin Jardine [7]announced polyToMonoid: a library that supplies two
very general polyvariadic functions that can map their arguments into
any monoid you specify.
Simon Hengel [8]announced a new version of DocTest. DocTest now uses
Haddock for parsing of comments.
Interesting Threads on Haskell-Cafe
Michael Snoyman [9]reported that Haskellers.com has become popular a
lot falter that he anticipated. Read up on what changes are planned for
Haskellers.com. Michael is very interested in some help with running
the site.
Jacek Generowicz [10]asked how to deal with dynamic dispatch on
extensible sets of types.
Uwe Schmidt [11]replied to a question about why HXT uses arrows as
opposed to using monads. Good comments followed.
Jason Dusek [12]asked if there is a way to write a Haskell data
structure that is necessarily only one or two or seventeen items long;
but that is nonetheless statically guaranteed to be of finite length?
Twenty-three messages followed.
Simon Thompson [13]annouced the availability of books for review for
the Journal of Functonial Programming.
Andrew Copping [14]summarized a report produced by Google Szwitzerland
on taking a Python system and rewriting bits of it in Haskell, some of
which is now in production use.
Ben Franksen [15]ranted about the current "Haskell Blurb" on the first
paragraph of haskell.org. Quite the read to end the week :)
Top Reddit Stories
* Using Haskell’s ‘newtype’ in C
Domain: blog.nelhage.com
Score: 37, Comments: 5
On Reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/dptzh/using_haskells_newtype_in_c/
Original: http://blog.nelhage.com/2010/10/using-haskells-newtype-in-c/
* The Haskell theme: consistent visual branding for Haskell
Domain: haskell.org
Score: 34, Comments: 11
On Reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/dqiej/the_haskell_theme_consistent_visual_branding_for/
Original:
http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2010-October/084781.html
* Haskellers: Survey results and new site features
Domain: haskellers.com
Score: 22, Comments: 6
On Reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/dr37b/haskellers_survey_results_and_new_site_features/
Original: http://www.haskellers.com/news/1/
* My Experience Learning Haskell
Domain: blog.virtucal.com
Score: 21, Comments: 6
On Reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/drgcz/my_experience_learning_haskell/
Original:
http://blog.virtucal.com/cyclical/2010/10/14/my-experience-learning-haskell.html
* Invertible monads for exception handling and memory allocations
Domain: docs.yesodweb.com
Score: 21, Comments: 0
On Reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/drkdj/invertible_monads_for_exception_handling_and/
Original:
http://docs.yesodweb.com/blog/invertible-monads-exceptions-allocations/
* Accelerating Haskell Array Codes with Multicore GPUs
Domain: justtesting.org
Score: 19, Comments: 0
On Reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/dq1yo/accelerating_haskell_array_codes_with_multicore/
Original:
http://justtesting.org/accelerating-haskell-array-codes-with-multico
* Unicode text performance improvements
Domain: serpentine.com
Score: 17, Comments: 1
On Reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/drinz/unicode_text_performance_improvements/
Original:
http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2010/10/15/unicode-text-performance-improvements/
* Like a coding challenge? Check out Code Quarterly!
Domain: serpentine.com
Score: 16, Comments: 9
On Reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/dpjgv/like_a_coding_challenge_check_out_code_quarterly/
Original:
http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2010/10/11/like-a-coding-challenge-check-out-code-quarterly/
* C9 Lecture: Ralf Lämmel on Monads
Domain: channel9.msdn.com
Score: 16, Comments: 0
On Reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/dq614/c9_lecture_ralf_lämmel_on_monads/
Original:
http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/C9-Lectures-Dr-Ralf-Lmmel-AFP-The-Quick-Essence-of-Functional-Programming
* Take the Haskellers.com survey
Domain: spreadsheets.google.com
Score: 15, Comments: 3
On Reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/dq7xj/take_the_haskellerscom_survey/
Original:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dG8tcVhBdzRSS1lkdVV6U281emtRMWc6MQ
Top StackOverflow Questions
* When is memoization automatic in GHC Haskell?
Question (votes: 14, answers: 3)
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3951012/when-is-memoization-automatic-in-ghc-haskell
* Why is my code using monadic lists from the List package so slow?
Question (votes: 12, answers: 3)
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3916444/why-is-my-code-using-monadic-lists-from-the-list-package-so-slow
* Haskell: lift vs liftIO
Question (votes: 8, answers: 2)
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3921237/haskell-lift-vs-liftio
* Can anyone suggest a good constraint library for Haskell?
Question (votes: 8, answers: 2)
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3926656/can-anyone-suggest-a-good-constraint-library-for-haskell
* Library function to compose a function with itself n times
Question (votes: 6, answers: 4)
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3911060/library-function-to-compose-a-function-with-itself-n-times
* Evaluation of a small math type language that supports one variable
Question (votes: 5, answers: 1)
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3906231/evaluation-of-a-small-math-type-language-that-supports-one-variable
* What's the difference of a “class” in Haskell and in an “abstract
class” in OO language?
Question (votes: 5, answers: 4)
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3938779/whats-the-difference-of-a-class-in-haskell-and-in-an-abstract-class-in-oo-l
* Haskell and State
Question (votes: 5, answers: 4)
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3944170/haskell-and-state
* Can Haskell guard on abstract data types in a polymorphic function?
Question (votes: 5, answers: 3)
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3944756/can-haskell-guard-on-abstract-data-types-in-a-polymorphic-function
Quotes of the Week
* pumpkin: sounds like a lot of work! it's easier for me to just
bitch about it
* OlegKiselyov: Haskell is inconsistent in yet another way.
* monochrom: just add #! /usr/bin/runghc to your haskell file. then
type errors occur at runtime only.
* IIcke: [haskell] is like wearing a corset, at the beginning is
annoying, but then your tits look bigger and the world becomes a
better place
Contributors to HackageDB
Who contributed, and how many uploads did they make?
MichaelSnoyman (14), BryanOSullivan (11), GregoryCrosswhite (5),
AndyStewart (5), GregoryCollins (4), JosePedroMagalhaes (3),
StephenBlackheath (2), SjoerdVisscher (2), PaulTalaga (2), MichaelZuo (2),
DanielDiaz (2), ConalElliott (2), AristidBreitkreuz (2),
AlexanderSolla (2), YuriyIskra (1), VivianMcPhail (1), TristanSkudlik (1),
TonyMorris (1), StephenTetley (1), SimonHengel (1), ReinierLamers (1),
OlegBelozeorov (1), NeilMitchell (1), MaxBolingbroke (1),
MatthiasBartsch (1), MatthewSottile (1), MasatakeDaimon (1),
MarkSnyder (1), ManuelChakravarty (1), LeePike (1), KiYungAhn (1),
KevinJardine (1), JustinBailey (1), IlyaPortnov (1), GeoffHulette (1),
EugeneKirpichov (1), DonaldStewart (1), DanielSeidel (1), DanielSchoepe (1),
CarlHowells (1), BenFranksen (1), ArieMiddelkoop (1), AlexSuraci (1)
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References
1. http://haskell.org/
2. http://twitter.com/#!/donsbot/haskellers
3.
http://groups.google.com/group/haskell-cafe/browse_thread/thread/c0071547638d7cb0
4.
http://groups.google.com/group/haskell-cafe/browse_thread/thread/ff95d6c78ded677f
5. http://groups.google.com/group/haskell-cafe/msg/d9d227b0f38bcf51
6.
http://groups.google.com/group/haskell-cafe/browse_thread/thread/fc86bd03d091c4bf
7.
http://groups.google.com/group/haskell-cafe/browse_thread/thread/4ba5741441d7bb33
8.
http://groups.google.com/group/haskell-cafe/browse_thread/thread/7982f0ad3bc9ce1d
9.
http://groups.google.com/group/haskell-cafe/browse_thread/thread/2440a1683fe3e739
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http://groups.google.com/group/haskell-cafe/browse_thread/thread/f0a05dd5b58dc3d2
11.
http://groups.google.com/group/haskell-cafe/browse_thread/thread/38185e7ba6509563/c6063929f39a7197?#c6063929f39a7197
12.
http://groups.google.com/group/haskell-cafe/browse_thread/thread/7ba4b3b0386fb3d6
13. http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/sjt/JFP/available.html
14.
http://groups.google.com/group/haskell-cafe/browse_thread/thread/81707fea2b1568ee
15.
http://groups.google.com/group/haskell-cafe/browse_thread/thread/a7c7b569dd524934
16. http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
17. http://sequence.complete.org/
18. http://planet.haskell.org/
19. http://sequence.complete.org/node/feed
20. http://haskell.org/
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