Welcome to issue 187 of the HWN, a newsletter covering developments in the Haskell community. This release covers the week of June 12 to 18, 2011.
Announcements Ian Lynagh announced a new patchlevel release of GHC (7.0.4). "This release contains a handful of bugfixes relative to 7.0.3, so we recommend upgrading." http://goo.gl/hOvdA Nicolas Wu released the third instance fo Haskell Parallel Digest. Many thanks to Nick and Eric for putting this together. http://goo.gl/s5muy Jeroen Janssen invited us to the 8th Ghent Functional Programming Group Meeting, to be held on Thursday, the 30th of June, in the Technicum building of Ghent University. http://goo.gl/G081Q Quotes of the Week * monochrom: if I were dying to learn covariance, I would not be looking for entertainment, like, I'm dying, I only have 5 minutes to learn covariance, thank you very much * hpc: the categorical dual of a hippomorphism should be a giraffomorphism * ksf: but, as, maybe indeed or not apparently, english, in, or especially in, punctuation matters is an utter mess. * 00:56:03 <benmachine> @faq can haskell tell if I am lagging [...] 00:57:18 <lambdabot> The answer is: Yes! Haskell can do that. Top Reddit Stories * Haskell: the Craft of Functional Programming, 3rd edition is out! Domain: haskellcraft.com, Score: 44, Comments: 10 On Reddit: http://goo.gl/6ZInj Original: http://goo.gl/t0GAX * GHC 7.0.4 is out Domain: haskell.org, Score: 42, Comments: 2 On Reddit: http://goo.gl/oxSJH Original: http://goo.gl/EzWUP * SafeHaskell pushed into GHC Domain: haskell.org, Score: 39, Comments: 5 On Reddit: http://goo.gl/sOrjr Original: http://goo.gl/2Rw56 * Minimum footprint for a GHC program: or, think about your TSOs Domain: stackoverflow.com, Score: 23, Comments: 0 On Reddit: http://goo.gl/eIF0o Original: http://goo.gl/dRgLG * Pieces of Yesod: Inverting a Haskell Function Domain: chplib.wordpress.com, Score: 21, Comments: 8 On Reddit: http://goo.gl/NFJNH Original: http://goo.gl/x2cz2 * The 2011 ICFP contest is starting in just 6 hours! Domain: icfpcontest.org, Score: 20, Comments: 15 On Reddit: http://goo.gl/BS7XI Original: http://goo.gl/oqj0Y * A pattern for avoiding allocation : Inside T5 Domain: blog.ezyang.com, Score: 19, Comments: 12 On Reddit: http://goo.gl/thuRP Original: http://goo.gl/IZCIh * Package of the Day: an improved runghc for fast repeated runs Domain: hackage.haskell.org, Score: 16, Comments: 9 On Reddit: http://goo.gl/k6mQK Original: http://goo.gl/a0DAC * The Supero Supercompiler Domain: community.haskell.org, Score: 16, Comments: 2 On Reddit: http://goo.gl/vBeFO Original: http://goo.gl/3QsmC * Galois Video: Building an Open-Source Autonomous Quad-Copter Domain: corp.galois.com, Score: 15, Comments: 3 On Reddit: http://goo.gl/HZghO Original: http://goo.gl/6AcMw Top StackOverflow Questions * Why does performGC fail to release all memory? votes: 17, answers: 2 Read on SO: http://goo.gl/dRgLG * OSX, ghci, dylib, what is the correct way? votes: 17, answers: 1 Read on SO: http://goo.gl/0s9Tu * Why does Haskell's `head` crash on an empty list (or why *doesn't* it return an empty list)? (Language philosophy) votes: 15, answers: 6 Read on SO: http://goo.gl/tghQR * Towards understanding CodeGen* in the Haskell LLVM bindings votes: 13, answers: 1 Read on SO: http://goo.gl/LPZ2F * What happens to you if you break the monad laws? votes: 13, answers: 3 Read on SO: http://goo.gl/Trvny * Is anyone using delimited continuations to do web development in Haskell? votes: 12, answers: 3 Read on SO: http://goo.gl/hGjuB * The concept of Bottom in Haskell votes: 12, answers: 1 Read on SO: http://goo.gl/9b1ZJ 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 _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
