Glad you are reading this issue! This is issue 186, not 180... Seems that the last couple of issues got stuck on 180. Hopefully you will find pointers to interesting things happening in the Haskell community. This issue covers the week of June 05 to 11, 2011.
Announcements Hakim Cassimally shared with us slides and screencast from Geekup's first ever "Functional Programming Night." http://goo.gl/1oCO8 Johannes Waldmann sent an invite to a Local Haskell Meeting (Stammtisch) in Leipzig, Germany on June 27. http://goo.gl/UM9ci We are very proud of the two Simons, Simon Peyton Jones and Simon Marlow. Isaac Potoczny-Jones relayed the announcement from ACM SIGPLAN of the SIGPLAN Programming Language Software Award. Many congrats! http://goo.gl/sAuVv Quotes of the Week * augustss: So JHC has bad code. GHC had a lot of that a long time ago, and they have slowly been converting to the pure way. It's the only sensible way. * <geheimdienst> monochrom: i thought it maybe would end executing the current do block ... <monochrom> use "when". <mm_freak_> use "goto" <hpc> use Java * cmccann: programming is a lot easier if you avoid working with dates/times, text, or numbers. I say stick to category theory, it's simpler * xplat: the underlying graph of a category is transitive. transitive graphs have no bridges. this is why trolls always have problems with category theory. Top Reddit Stories * SIGPLAN Programming Languages Software Award, to Simon Peyton Jones and Simon Marlow for GHC Domain: permalink.gmane.org, Score: 115, Comments: 12 On Reddit: http://goo.gl/d1yww Original: http://goo.gl/ym5q9 * Haskell gets a new super-fast hash table library Domain: gregorycollins.net, Score: 80, Comments: 20 On Reddit: http://goo.gl/gNcRa Original: http://goo.gl/O6oc6 * Pinpointing space leaks in big programs : Inside T5 Domain: blog.ezyang.com, Score: 47, Comments: 4 On Reddit: http://goo.gl/T3ZVs Original: http://goo.gl/4rL1y * iPad app that is a lisp interpreter written in haskell by David Pollak, creator of the Scala web framework Lift. Domain: github.com, Score: 37, Comments: 16 On Reddit: http://goo.gl/eXf03 Original: http://goo.gl/c859K * Memory footprints of some common data types Domain: blog.johantibell.com, Score: 36, Comments: 23 On Reddit: http://goo.gl/bjvFC Original: http://goo.gl/QVrIN * Gilad Bracha: Types are Anti-Modular Domain: gbracha.blogspot.com, Score: 22, Comments: 22 On Reddit: http://goo.gl/rnbeF Original: http://goo.gl/44kCd * Biggest / most popular / most trafficked web app written in Haskell? Janrain, TypLAB, or ... ? Domain: reddit.com, Score: 19, Comments: 15 On Reddit: http://goo.gl/eMn8Y Original: http://goo.gl/hUzFc * Three Haskell web frameworks Domain: blogs.linux.ie, Score: 17, Comments: 3 On Reddit: http://goo.gl/5HGd6 Original: http://goo.gl/oR6Zu * Parallel GHC project: new opportunity for an organisation to participate Domain: well-typed.com, Score: 17, Comments: 0 On Reddit: http://goo.gl/rppqC Original: http://goo.gl/CB4ZG * Building Ajax Sites With Snap - Imagining Heist-Async Domain: blog.dbpatterson.com, Score: 17, Comments: 0 On Reddit: http://goo.gl/o8jTF Original: http://goo.gl/j1y2o Top StackOverflow Questions * why write type declarations in Haskell? votes: 11, answers: 4 Read on SO: http://goo.gl/SqM4y * Creating functions over Enumerations votes: 11, answers: 5 Read on SO: http://goo.gl/0lguE * Understanding a recursively defined list (fibs in terms of zipWith) votes: 10, answers: 3 Read on SO: http://goo.gl/kbVtC * Speeding up SHA256 in Haskell votes: 10, answers: 1 Read on SO: http://goo.gl/whGhV * Poor performance with transpose and cumulative sum in Repa votes: 10, answers: 1 Read on SO: http://goo.gl/abxuD * Would you mind to explain the code in the forum ? votes: 9, answers: 1 Read on SO: http://goo.gl/ftoI3 About the Haskell Weekly News To help create new editions of this newsletter, please send stories to [email protected]. Until next time, Daniel Santa Cruz _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
