[Haskell-cafe] ANN: NY Haskell presents Edward Kmett on Lenses, Folds, and Traversals -- Wed., December 12

2012-11-20 Thread Gershom B
The first NY Haskell Users Group meetup was a great success -- with roughly sixty attendees and conversations that stretched far too late for a weekday night. Video and slides are available for both the Practical Data Processing and Cloud Haskell talks: Video: http://vimeo.com/53906049 Slides on P

[Haskell-cafe] ANN: New York Haskell Users Group -- First Meeting on Wed., Nov 14.

2012-10-09 Thread Gershom B
The (arguably) greatest city in the U.S. now (finally) has a users group for (unarguably) the greatest programming language anywhere. We're very happy to announce the inaugural meeting of the New York Haskell Users Group. We intend this group to be welcoming to new developers, but with enough subst

[Haskell-cafe] A Modest Records Proposal

2012-03-31 Thread Gershom B
The records discussion has been really complicated and confusing. But I have a suggestion that should provide a great deal of power to records, while being mostly[1] backwards-compatible with Haskell 2010. Consider this example: data A a = A{a:a, aa::a, aaa :: a -> A (a -> a)} data B a = B

[Haskell-cafe] ANN: JMacro 0.3.2, A library/dsl for generating Javascript

2010-09-25 Thread Gershom B
JMacro on hackage: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/jmacro This is the first official release announcement for JMacro, which has been on hackage in some form for over a year, and in the current version since July. JMacro is a library for the programmatic generation of Javascript code. It is des