Welcome to issue 249 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the week of October 21 to October 27, 2012.
Quotes of the Week * johnw: ah terminology, just when you think you know something, they redefined "know"... * lispy: The crappy thing about using partial fun*** Exception: Pattern match failure * shachaf: This Useful Information information brought to you by: ghci, and: the letter t * edwardk: i should have picked a better name to minimize confusion cmccann: huh. that's not something I ever expected to hear edwardk say * beaky: why did they settle on bitshiftrightassign (>>=) for monadic bind? Top Reddit Stories * Why is this simple text processing program so much slower than in dynamic languages? Domain: honza.ca, Score: 64, Comments: 189 On Reddit: [1] http://goo.gl/jW5ow Original: [2] http://goo.gl/pPzIb * Fay slides Domain: fay-lang.org, Score: 50, Comments: 42 On Reddit: [3] http://goo.gl/0UM4T Original: [4] http://goo.gl/h8iZE * Haskell for all: "Hello, core!" Domain: haskellforall.com, Score: 48, Comments: 6 On Reddit: [5] http://goo.gl/qXRd2 Original: [6] http://goo.gl/9cBeo * Haskell job opening at Functor AB Domain: alpmestan.com, Score: 35, Comments: 5 On Reddit: [7] http://goo.gl/hQmoa Original: [8] http://goo.gl/ASA9c * Enemy of the Mutable State Domain: ozonehouse.com, Score: 32, Comments: 10 On Reddit: [9] http://goo.gl/Wn3Yv Original: [10] http://goo.gl/r18by * Gloss(ish) and Fay: An Example Domain: zelda.designacourse.com, Score: 29, Comments: 7 On Reddit: [11] http://goo.gl/rtR9Y Original: [12] http://goo.gl/1cF0z * Yesodweb: Future work to improve the performance of Warp Domain: yesodweb.com, Score: 25, Comments: On Reddit: [13] http://goo.gl/0YF64 Original: [14] http://goo.gl/fq7ds * (a,b,c,d) as sugar for (a,(b,(c,d))) ? Domain: self.haskell, Score: 23, Comments: 37 On Reddit: [15] http://goo.gl/cc30R Original: [16] http://goo.gl/cc30R * Using Cloud Haskell in HPC Cluster Domain: malcodigo.blogspot.com.es, Score: 23, Comments: On Reddit: [17] http://goo.gl/LxmqY Original: [18] http://goo.gl/ycmZr * Haskell Platform 2012.4.0.0 release candidates Domain: trac.haskell.org, Score: 23, Comments: 3 On Reddit: [19] http://goo.gl/B4MNc Original: [20] http://goo.gl/Q4fHP Top StackOverflow Questions * Concrete example showing that monads are not closed under composition (with proof)? votes: 24, answers: 3 Read on SO: [21] http://goo.gl/sys7F * Why is there no IO transformer in Haskell? votes: 15, answers: 2 Read on SO: [22] http://goo.gl/04Xc7 * Is it possible to make GHC optimize (deforest) generic functions such as catamorphisms? votes: 14, answers: 1 Read on SO: [23] http://goo.gl/f4ZlU * Confused by the meaning of the 'Alternative' type class and its relationship to other type classes votes: 13, answers: 5 Read on SO: [24] http://goo.gl/RXNuV * How to add fields that only cache something to ADT? votes: 13, answers: 0 Read on SO: [25] http://goo.gl/FjLlX * How to reliably compare runtime of Haskell and C? votes: 10, answers: 1 Read on SO: [26] http://goo.gl/R7whA * Currying Product Types votes: 10, answers: 3 Read on SO: [27] http://goo.gl/7gxIS * Modular Program Design - Combining Monad Transformers in Monad Agnostic functions votes: 9, answers: 2 Read on SO: [28] http://goo.gl/8rh1B * Is there a nicer way to apply a function to both elements of a pair in a list than a list comprehension? votes: 9, answers: 3 Read on SO: [29] http://goo.gl/JF3p5 * How unpacking strict fields goes together with polymorphism? votes: 9, answers: 1 Read on SO: [30] http://goo.gl/58MuT Until next time, Daniel Santa Cruz References 1. http://honza.ca/2012/10/haskell-strings 2. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/120h6i/why_is_this_simple_text_processing_program_so/ 3. http://fay-lang.org/fay-talk/ 4. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/11yrpi/fay_slides/ 5. http://www.haskellforall.com/2012/10/hello-core.html 6. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/11vuzz/haskell_for_all_hello_core/ 7. http://alpmestan.com/posts/2012-10-23-haskell-job-opening-at-functor.html 8. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/11yf8c/haskell_job_opening_at_functor_ab/ 9. http://www.ozonehouse.com/mark/enemy/ 10. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/125zt0/enemy_of_the_mutable_state/ 11. http://zelda.designacourse.com/codeworld.html 12. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/126vdk/glossish_and_fay_an_example/ 13. http://www.yesodweb.com/blog/2012/10/future-work-warp 14. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/11w7wv/yesodweb_future_work_to_improve_the_performance/ 15. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/11ysa5/abcd_as_sugar_for_abcd/ 16. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/11ysa5/abcd_as_sugar_for_abcd/ 17. http://malcodigo.blogspot.com.es/2012/10/using-cloud-haskell-in-hpc-cluster.html 18. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/122m6y/using_cloud_haskell_in_hpc_cluster/ 19. http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/wiki/ReleaseCandidates 20. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/124kje/haskell_platform_2012400_release_candidates/ 21. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13034229/concrete-example-showing-that-monads-are-not-closed-under-composition-with-proo 22. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13056663/why-is-there-no-io-transformer-in-haskell 23. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13099203/is-it-possible-to-make-ghc-optimize-deforest-generic-functions-such-as-catamor 24. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13080606/confused-by-the-meaning-of-the-alternative-type-class-and-its-relationship-to 25. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13098448/how-to-add-fields-that-only-cache-something-to-adt 26. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13009728/how-to-reliably-compare-runtime-of-haskell-and-c 27. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13080074/currying-product-types 28. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13007123/modular-program-design-combining-monad-transformers-in-monad-agnostic-function 29. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13022720/is-there-a-nicer-way-to-apply-a-function-to-both-elements-of-a-pair-in-a-list-th 30. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13098375/how-unpacking-strict-fields-goes-together-with-polymorphism
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