Welcome to issue 236 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits
of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the
week of July 8 to 14, 2012.
Quotes of the Week
* RichardBuckminsterFuller: When I am working on a problem, I never
think about beauty. But when I have finished, if the solution is
not beautiful, I know that it is wrong.
* Taneb: I'm doing the thing that every bored haskeller does one day
and rewriting Prelude
Top Reddit Stories
* Haskell Performance Patterns
Domain: johantibell.com, Score: 71, Comments: 34
On Reddit: [1] http://goo.gl/gZkMB
Original: [2] http://goo.gl/2rj4t
* Code Us Some Roguelike in Haskell!
Domain: jamiltron.com, Score: 55, Comments: 19
On Reddit: [3] http://goo.gl/VYOx1
Original: [4] http://goo.gl/OOiSG
* I never tested this code before releasing it
Confession of a Haskell Hacker
Domain: r6.ca, Score: 51, Comments: 48
On Reddit: [5] http://goo.gl/EBfT7
Original: [6] http://goo.gl/9zA0u
* Breaking from a loop
Domain: haskellforall.com, Score: 37, Comments: 19
On Reddit: [7] http://goo.gl/yqxqg
Original: [8] http://goo.gl/NtI8j
* The Classy Prelude, an alternate prelude which makes it easier
to use conflicting names via typeclasses, and thereby encourages
usage of more powerful libraries like text and unordered-containers.
Domain: yesodweb.com, Score: 35, Comments: 46
On Reddit: [9] http://goo.gl/cZKM5
Original: [10] http://goo.gl/70d6R
* The Long and Epic Journey of LambdaCase
Domain: unknownparallel.wordpress.com, Score: 33, Comments: 52
On Reddit: [11] http://goo.gl/EAVXs
Original: [12] http://goo.gl/ymkGy
* How is this fibonacci-function memoized?
Domain: stackoverflow.com, Score: 33, Comments: 1
On Reddit: [13] http://goo.gl/lo3LD
Original: [14] http://goo.gl/wwHQb
* errors-1.0: Simplified error handling
Domain: haskellforall.com, Score: 30, Comments: 31
On Reddit: [15] http://goo.gl/tKzP1
Original: [16] http://goo.gl/O10hN
* Influenced by Haskell
Domain: griffsgraphs.com, Score: 30, Comments: 29
On Reddit: [17] http://goo.gl/6ptoi
Original: [18] http://goo.gl/Nrz7K
* Experience Report: Haskell in Computational Biology
(Daniels, Gallant, Ramsey)[pdf 7 pp]
Domain: eecs.tufts.edu, Score: 30, Comments: 11
On Reddit: [19] http://goo.gl/XsvMK
Original: [20] http://goo.gl/TUdnL
* == for Float not referentially transparent
Domain: haskell.org, Score: 23, Comments: 51
On Reddit: [21] http://goo.gl/6qZ1J
Original: [22] http://goo.gl/DR9TE
* My second attempt at writing Haskell
Domain: self.haskell, Score: 21, Comments: 27
On Reddit: [23] http://goo.gl/i7u3p
Original: [24] http://goo.gl/i7u3p
* Announcing split-channel « Melding Monads
Domain: blog.melding-monads.com, Score: 20, Comments: 16
On Reddit: [25] http://goo.gl/XwHdl
Original: [26] http://goo.gl/oh5Ce
* Deriving the Y combinator from first principles
Domain: wellnowwhat.net, Score: 18, Comments: 12
On Reddit: [27] http://goo.gl/5uxYN
Original: [28] http://goo.gl/Q76lk
* Announcing WAI 1.3!
Domain: yesodweb.com, Score: 18, Comments: 11
On Reddit: [29] http://goo.gl/QD769
Original: [30] http://goo.gl/mQFBK
Top StackOverflow Questions
* How is this fibonacci-function memoized?
votes: 43, answers: 3
Read on SO: [31] http://goo.gl/MGjr3
* What is the combinatory logic equivalent of intuitionistic type theory?
votes: 39, answers: 0
Read on SO: [32] http://goo.gl/ki9nT
* Does Haskell have return type overloading?
votes: 15, answers: 5
Read on SO: [33] http://goo.gl/sBGWj
* Is there a way to avoid unnecessary recursion?
votes: 12, answers: 2
Read on SO: [34] http://goo.gl/Gk39e
* Using vectors for performance improvement in Haskell
votes: 12, answers: 2
Read on SO: [35] http://goo.gl/74KOH
* Eliminate Haskell array bounds check for Bounded type?
votes: 11, answers: 1
Read on SO: [36] http://goo.gl/CHDtJ
* Having my cereal and parsing it too
votes: 8, answers: 2
Read on SO: [37] http://goo.gl/1SG24
* How does HOpenGL behave with regards to other threads and
TChans in Haskell?
votes: 8, answers: 2
Read on SO: [38] http://goo.gl/dmoqc
* Number of arguments and point-free in Haskell
votes: 8, answers: 2
Read on SO: [39] http://goo.gl/8Z0B2
* Haskell: Design pattern: classes or pass functions
votes: 7, answers: 3
Read on SO: [40] http://goo.gl/EO7tr
* Haskell — sort list with impure function
votes: 7, answers: 4
Read on SO: [41] http://goo.gl/o9kbc
Until next time,
Daniel Santa Cruz
References
1. http://johantibell.com/files/haskell-performance-patterns.html#%281%29
2.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/wjtms/haskell_performance_patterns/
3. http://jamiltron.com/2012/07/Code_Us_Some_Roguelike_in_Haskell.html
4.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/wd6p3/code_us_some_roguelike_in_haskell/
5. http://r6.ca/blog/20120708T122219Z.html
6.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/w7zd8/i_never_tested_this_code_before_releasing_it/
7. http://www.haskellforall.com/2012/07/breaking-from-loop.html
8. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/wfwyt/breaking_from_a_loop/
9. http://www.yesodweb.com/blog/2012/07/classy-prelude
10.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/wfiao/the_classy_prelude_an_alternate_prelude_which/
11.
http://unknownparallel.wordpress.com/2012/07/09/the-long-and-epic-journey-of-lambdacase-2/
12.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/wbb69/the_long_and_epic_journey_of_lambdacase/
13. http://stackoverflow.com/q/11466284/1288
14.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/whx2k/how_is_this_fibonaccifunction_memoized/
15.
http://www.haskellforall.com/2012/07/errors-10-simplified-error-handling.html
16.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/w7xrv/errors10_simplified_error_handling/
17. http://griffsgraphs.com/2012/07/01/programming-languages-influences/
18. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/w9npe/influenced_by_haskell/
19.
http://www.eecs.tufts.edu/~ndaniels/Noah_files/mrfy_experience_report.pdf
20.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/wf6xe/experience_report_haskell_in_computational/
21.
http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/glasgow-haskell-users/2012-July/022568.html
22.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/wbsd3/for_float_not_referentially_transparent/
23.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/walg1/my_second_attempt_at_writing_haskell/
24.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/walg1/my_second_attempt_at_writing_haskell/
25. http://blog.melding-monads.com/2012/07/10/announcing-split-channel/
26.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/wdhf1/announcing_splitchannel_melding_monads/
27. http://www.wellnowwhat.net/blog/?p=485
28.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/wd5rb/deriving_the_y_combinator_from_first_principles/
29. http://www.yesodweb.com/blog/2012/07/announcing-wai-1-3
30. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/wih94/announcing_wai_13/
31.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11466284/how-is-this-fibonacci-function-memoized
32.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11406786/what-is-the-combinatory-logic-equivalent-of-intuitionistic-type-theory
33.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11420126/does-haskell-have-return-type-overloading
34.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11454936/is-there-a-way-to-avoid-unnecessary-recursion
35.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11481675/using-vectors-for-performance-improvement-in-haskell
36.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11411797/eliminate-haskell-array-bounds-check-for-bounded-type
37.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11424961/having-my-cereal-and-parsing-it-too
38.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11443824/how-does-hopengl-behave-with-regards-to-other-threads-and-tchans-in-haskell
39.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11487171/number-of-arguments-and-point-free-in-haskell
40.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11423749/haskell-design-pattern-classes-or-pass-functions
41.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11469806/haskell-sort-list-with-impure-function
_______________________________________________
Haskell-Cafe mailing list
Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org
http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
