Welcome to issue 191 of the HWN, a newsletter covering developments in the Haskell community. This release covers the week of July 10 to 16, 2011. [1] http://haskell.org/
You can find the HTML (and mobile) version of the issue at: http://contemplatecode.blogspot.com/2011/07/haskell-weekly-news-issue-191.html Announcements Brent Yorgey put out a call for articles for the next Monad.Reader, which will be focused on parallelism and concurrency. [2] http://goo.gl/Qh6na Quotes of the Week * PenguinOfDoom: Being enlightened gentlemen, we split all programming languages into two groups, sucks and doesn't-suck and put all of them into the first group. * cmccann: beta reducing the chainsaws can be tricky * kmc: edwardk measures API lifetime in hours * _Ray_: the difference in mathematical/CS knowledge of the average haskeller, and the average PHPer, is likely similar to that of the average PHPer and a banana * quicksilver: [on LYAH] by the time I read it I knew everything it was trying to teach, so I just thought "Yay! Cute caterpillar". * edwardk: shapr is the only person i know of who just decides to drive across the country with a car full of machetes * copumpkin is now known as contrapumpkin. contrapumpkin is now known as yoda. yoda is now known as coyoda. + Eduard_Munteanu: Yonoda + coedwardk: i keep reading coyoda as coyoneda + monochrom: I read it as toyota + Eduard_Munteanu: Mmm, the monad is strong in this one... + monochrom: rumours actually say that it should be toyoda but the japaneses want it easier on americans, so toyota Top Reddit Stories * The Haskell School of Music - new book being written by Paul Hudak Domain: plucky.cs.yale.edu, Score: 66, Comments: 9 On Reddit: [3] http://goo.gl/9Jjrd Original: [4] http://goo.gl/r54xG * Confusion between (.) and ($) operators Domain: self.haskell, Score: 41, Comments: 27 On Reddit: [5] http://goo.gl/eFqRj Original: [6] http://goo.gl/eFqRj * Fitter, happier, more productive UTF-8 decoding Domain: serpentine.com, Score: 35, Comments: 6 On Reddit: [7] http://goo.gl/o2REx Original: [8] http://goo.gl/dKB04 * Static Single Assignment for Functional Programmers Domain: wingolog.org, Score: 30, Comments: On Reddit: [9] http://goo.gl/13sSP Original: [10] http://goo.gl/90MEH * [GSoC] Text/UTF-8: Initial results Domain: jaspervdj.be, Score: 29, Comments: 14 On Reddit: [11] http://goo.gl/nJ4pJ Original: [12] http://goo.gl/uPkBl * Data Driven Programming in haskell - live screencast. What are your tips/suggestions? Domain: entirelysubjective.com, Score: 29, Comments: 17 On Reddit: [13] http://goo.gl/kIiX8 Original: [14] http://goo.gl/28k6p * Ur/Web is hiring: web metaprogramming with class Domain: haskell.org, Score: 28, Comments: 11 On Reddit: [15] http://goo.gl/nWf5S Original: [16] http://goo.gl/l9HhI * Monads in C++. Bartosz Milewski's Programming Cafe Domain: bartoszmilewski.wordpress.com, Score: 23, Comments: 0 On Reddit: [17] http://goo.gl/IJnVa Original: [18] http://goo.gl/Bq4Lq * The Typeable class is changing Domain: haskell.org, Score: 22, Comments: 2 On Reddit: [19] http://goo.gl/x1InO Original: [20] http://goo.gl/E2jVK * Reverse Engineering of Compiled Haskell Domain: self.haskell, Score: 18, Comments: 22 On Reddit: [21] http://goo.gl/GCrfN Original: [22] http://goo.gl/GCrfN Top StackOverflow Questions * Haskell - How to avoid typing the same context over and over again? votes: 18, answers: 3 Read on SO: [23] http://goo.gl/0h1qF * Haskell iteratee: simple worked example of stripping trailing whitespace votes: 14, answers: 1 Read on SO: [24] http://goo.gl/bYujx * Parametrised data type in Scala votes: 12, answers: 2 Read on SO: [25] http://goo.gl/4NyZw * How to organize Haskell modules with instances: stick to data type vs type class? votes: 10, answers: 1 Read on SO: [26] http://goo.gl/Tivoh * On improving Haskell's performance compared to C in fibonacci micro-benchmark votes: 10, answers: 3 Read on SO: [27] http://goo.gl/q5O8Q * Constructing a tuple (or list) from already-existing objects - what is the cost? votes: 9, answers: 2 Read on SO: [28] http://goo.gl/UuKft * Writing A Function Polymorphic In A Type Family votes: 9, answers: 1 Read on SO: [29] http://goo.gl/vPpoH * Haskell Lazy ByteString + read/write progress function votes: 9, answers: 1 Read on SO: [30] http://goo.gl/LfNEN About the Haskell Weekly News To help create new editions of this newsletter, please send stories to dstc...@gmail.com. Until next time, Daniel Santa Cruz References 1. http://haskell.org/ 2. http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/18844 3. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/in1my/the_haskell_school_of_music_new_book_being/ 4. http://plucky.cs.yale.edu/cs431/reading.htm 5. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/ipfok/confusion_between_and_operators/ 6. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/ipfok/confusion_between_and_operators/ 7. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/im82t/fitter_happier_more_productive_utf8_decoding/ 8. http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2011/07/11/fitter-happier-more-productive-utf-8-decoding/ 9. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/ip2de/static_single_assignment_for_functional/ 10. http://wingolog.org/archives/2011/07/12/static-single-assignment-for-functional-programmers/ 11. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/ilif5/gsoc_textutf8_initial_results/ 12. http://jaspervdj.be/posts/2011-07-10-text-utf8-initial-results.html 13. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/insp1/data_driven_programming_in_haskell_live/ 14. http://entirelysubjective.com/programming/data-driven-programming-haskell-1/ 15. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/ips56/urweb_is_hiring_web_metaprogramming_with_class/ 16. http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2011-July/093994.html 17. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/imzaj/monads_in_c_bartosz_milewskis_programming_cafe/ 18. http://bartoszmilewski.wordpress.com/2011/07/11/monads-in-c/ 19. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/imm0j/the_typeable_class_is_changing/ 20. http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2011-July/093947.html 21. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/iqz0l/reverse_engineering_of_compiled_haskell/ 22. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/iqz0l/reverse_engineering_of_compiled_haskell/ 23. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6706248/haskell-how-to-avoid-typing-the-same-context-over-and-over-again 24. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6643495/haskell-iteratee-simple-worked-example-of-stripping-trailing-whitespace 25. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6694269/parametrised-data-type-in-scala 26. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6641105/how-to-organize-haskell-modules-with-instances-stick-to-data-type-vs-type-class 27. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6716315/on-improving-haskells-performance-compared-to-c-in-fibonacci-micro-benchmark 28. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6655902/constructing-a-tuple-or-list-from-already-existing-objects-what-is-the-cost 29. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6663547/writing-a-function-polymorphic-in-a-type-family 30. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6668716/haskell-lazy-bytestring-read-write-progress-function _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe