Welcome to issue 193 of the HWN, a newsletter covering developments in the Haskell community. This release covers the week of July 24 to 30, 2011. [1] http://goo.gl/8hDku
You can find an HTML rendition of this issue at: http://contemplatecode.blogspot.com/2011/08/haskell-weekly-news-issue-193.html Announcements Wouter Swierstra issued a call for participation to the 16th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Function Programming (ICFP 2011) to be held in Tokyo, Japon on September 19-21, 2011. [2] http://goo.gl/ob6Tq New and Updated Projects These projects were announced in the mailing lists: * syntactic (Emil Axelsson): Update to version 0.5 [3] http://goo.gl/sKutg * Yi (Jeff Wheeler): Update to version 0.6.4.0 [4] http://goo.gl/Tr2Ns Quotes of the Week * sipa: it can optimize non-terminating programs into programs that output "<<loop>>" and quit; that's an optimization of infinity% ! * fazzone: People generally seem to react the same way to "My first assembly was x86" as "My dog died" -- "Oh my god, I'm so sorry" * [danharaj] I hate myself [edwardk] happy to help * bos: the number of people who grok rank-K types is inversely proportional to ackermann(K) * copumpkin: holy shit, I'm unsafeCoerce * quicksilver: edwardk had this brilliant idea of how he could stress-test our package architecture * chrisdone: monoid sounds like a name for a hairless alien species that communicates telepathically from star trek * [copumpkin] I basically translated repa to agda and made it all safe n shit. also all slow n shit [thoughtpolice] safe n shit, like, type systems yo * theorbtwo: Well, that's one way to respond to ghc having overly-long error messages. Just replace all error messges with "that's the stupidist shit I've ever heard". * acowley: I'm 101% sure I never would have figured it out. I was told all hope was lost, then simonmar swung in on his web shooters and figured it out * quicksilver: agda is an alluring trap for haskell programmers who hope to write better code. instead they end up writing no code. Top Reddit Stories * my humble rant about the Haskell learning curve Domain: willowbend.cx, Score: 66, Comments: 134 On Reddit: [5] http://goo.gl/g1buw Original: [6] http://goo.gl/3xDxl * GHC 7.2.* release candidates are now available Domain: haskell.org, Score: 28, Comments: 17 On Reddit: [7] http://goo.gl/0C0gx Original: [8] http://goo.gl/cvec5 * oleg compares iteratee with python's yield Domain: haskell.org, Score: 27, Comments: 12 On Reddit: [9] http://goo.gl/8YQKq Original: [10] http://goo.gl/BafGo * Report from HacPDX-II about progress on the new Hackage server Domain: well-typed.com, Score: 26, Comments: 0 On Reddit: [11] http://goo.gl/vBr7N Original: [12] http://goo.gl/QXy9a * Arrow = Category + Applicative? (Part I) Domain: cdsmith.wordpress.com, Score: 26, Comments: 34 On Reddit: [13] http://goo.gl/Zs5Yg Original: [14] http://goo.gl/AsfL1 * Profunctors in Haskell - A Neighborhood of Infinity Domain: blog.sigfpe.com, Score: 19, Comments: 11 On Reddit: [15] http://goo.gl/58CbB Original: [16] http://goo.gl/IKI9H * BlockedIndefinitelyOnMVar : Inside 1712B Domain: blog.ezyang.com, Score: 19, Comments: 3 On Reddit: [17] http://goo.gl/3Xtn0 Original: [18] http://goo.gl/4osPH * The Great Yesod Reorganization of 2011 Domain: yesodweb.com, Score: 18, Comments: 8 On Reddit: [19] http://goo.gl/ZGNoa Original: [20] http://goo.gl/V4buP * Is there a Haskell code formatter? Domain: stackoverflow.com, Score: 16, Comments: 32 On Reddit: [21] http://goo.gl/lQOX3 Original: [22] http://goo.gl/AthoZ * Building a Rate of Return System in Haskell – Part 3, Annualized Returns Domain: blog.virtucal.com, Score: 9, Comments: 7 On Reddit: [23] http://goo.gl/0QGPB Original: [24] http://goo.gl/R6am5 Top StackOverflow Questions * Is there a Haskell code formatter? votes: 18, answers: 1 Read on SO: [25] http://goo.gl/AthoZ * Help in understanding pointfree code votes: 17, answers: 1 Read on SO: [26] http://goo.gl/Ryy5c * Haskell: What is Weak Head Normal Form? votes: 17, answers: 5 Read on SO: [27] http://goo.gl/3CHAB * Understanding GHC assembly output votes: 13, answers: 1 Read on SO: [28] http://goo.gl/ujlve * What are Haskell's monad transformers in categorical terms? votes: 13, answers: 1 Read on SO: [29] http://goo.gl/vMPdO * Managing a stateful computation system in Haskell votes: 12, answers: 1 Read on SO: [30] http://goo.gl/HABkL * Am I using reactive-banana right? votes: 11, answers: 1 Read on SO: [31] http://goo.gl/7jiKr * Is there an object-identity-based, thread-safe memoization library somewhere? votes: 11, answers: 2 Read on SO: [32] http://goo.gl/7vGvl * Is there a practical way of using natural numbers in Haskell? votes: 11, answers: 2 Read on SO: [33] http://goo.gl/hJBK9 * Current state of integrating unit tests with Haskell's Cabal? votes: 10, answers: 1 Read on SO: [34] http://goo.gl/nm8Zc 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.science.types.announce/2446 3. http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/91427 4. http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.editors.yi.devel/5550 5. http://willowbend.cx/2011/07/22/whats-wrong-with-learning-haskell/ 6. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/j0say/my_humble_rant_about_the_haskell_learning_curve/ 7. http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/7.2.1-rc1/ 8. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/j3yly/ghc_72_release_candidates_are_now_available/ 9. http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2011-July/094384.html 10. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/j32c4/oleg_compares_iteratee_with_pythons_yield/ 11. http://www.well-typed.com/blog/57 12. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/iznjs/report_from_hacpdxii_about_progress_on_the_new/ 13. http://cdsmith.wordpress.com/2011/07/30/arrow-category-applicative-part-i/ 14. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/j4h6a/arrow_category_applicative_part_i/ 15. http://blog.sigfpe.com/2011/07/profunctors-in-haskell.html 16. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/iyima/profunctors_in_haskell_a_neighborhood_of_infinity/ 17. http://blog.ezyang.com/2011/07/blockedindefinitelyonmvar/ 18. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/j1ld6/blockedindefinitelyonmvar_inside_1712b/ 19. http://www.yesodweb.com/blog/2011/07/yesod-reorg 20. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/iz2ew/the_great_yesod_reorganization_of_2011/ 21. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6870148/is-there-a-haskell-code-formatter 22. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/j31f4/is_there_a_haskell_code_formatter/ 23. http://blog.virtucal.com/cyclical/2011/7/28/building-a-rate-of-return-system-in-haskell-part-3-annualize.html 24. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/j2gyp/building_a_rate_of_return_system_in_haskell_part/ 25. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6870148/is-there-a-haskell-code-formatter 26. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6797247/help-in-understanding-pointfree-code 27. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6872898/haskell-what-is-weak-head-normal-form 28. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6808867/understanding-ghc-assembly-output 29. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6854303/what-are-haskells-monad-transformers-in-categorical-terms 30. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6835777/managing-a-stateful-computation-system-in-haskell 31. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6812533/am-i-using-reactive-banana-right 32. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6878193/is-there-an-object-identity-based-thread-safe-memoization-library-somewhere 33. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6884220/is-there-a-practical-way-of-using-natural-numbers-in-haskell 34. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6787231/current-state-of-integrating-unit-tests-with-haskells-cabal _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
