February 4, 2015

Haskell Weekly News: Issue 316

Welcome to issue 316 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers from January 18 to 31, 2015

After doing more than 150 of these, I have come to the conclusion that it is time for me to take a permanent break from HWN. I realize that "we could do better", and have something a bit more edited than a collection of links, and some quotes. I wish I had more time to devote to such endeavor, but my time is currently being taken up by trying to help my 1 year old explore her little world.

If you'd like to be the one to continue the long tradition of HWN, drop me a line.

Thanks for following along for the last 3 years!

Quotes of the Week

  • johnw: "Sir, what weapon did the assailant use against you?" "All I know is that it was done in IO, officer."
  • monochrom: $ can't buy you love, but it can buy you function application
  • hiptobecubic: benzrf, well sure. I'm not suggesting that lens has actually left any operators available for anything

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Until next time,
+Daniel Santa Cruz

January 22, 2015

Haskell Weekly News: Issue 315

Welcome to issue 315 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers from January 4 to 17, 2015

Quotes of the Week

  • mpickering: When is the right time to use Data.ByteString.Char8?
    edwardk: mpickering: some time around 1980
  • tpolecat: any lecture by conal elliott has that flavor. he is the bob ross of functional programming.

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Until next time,
+Daniel Santa Cruz

January 7, 2015

Haskell Weekly News: Issue 314

Welcome to issue 314 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers from December 7, 2014 to January 3, 2015

I know... I know. It's been a while

Quotes of the Week

  • arianvp__: after 5 hours of hacking my code works || now its 3 am || Types make a lot more sense when I'm tired for some reason
  • dmwit: "Any coder worth his salt can do the impossible."
  • hodapp: Math is too hard. Let's use JavaScript.
  • Zemyla: I imagine if [Edward Kmett] had found C++, he would be writing template definitions that would make the faces of the Boost team melt off.

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Until next time,
+Daniel Santa Cruz

December 10, 2014

Haskell Weekly News: Issue 313

Welcome to issue 313 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers from November 16 to December 6, 2014

Quotes of the Week

  • Dijkstra: How do we convince people that in programming simplicity and clarity (in short: what mathematicians call "elegance") are not a dispensable luxury, but a crucial matter that decides between success and failure?
  • Dijkstra: Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better.
  • monochrom: those who have learned from history are bound to helplessly watch other people repeat it.

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Until next time,
+Daniel Santa Cruz

November 19, 2014

Haskell Weekly News: Issue 312

Welcome to issue 312 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers from October 26 to November 15, 2014

Quotes of the Week

  • barsoap: There's no place for half measures in overkill.

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Until next time,
+Daniel Santa Cruz

October 29, 2014

Haskell Weekly News: Issue 311

Welcome to issue 311 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers from October 19 to 25, 2014

Quotes of the Week

    • trap_exit:
    • isn't darcs this haskell powered quantum physics simulator that happens to also keep revisions of files?

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Until next time,
+Daniel Santa Cruz

October 22, 2014

Haskell Weekly News: Issue 310

Welcome to issue 310 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers from October 5 to 18, 2014

Quotes of the Week

  • spopejoy: That [Spineless Tagless G Machine] will always sound like the villian in an upcoming Ghostbusters sequel to me :)
  • pigworker: When you can make data out of potatoes, why would you want to encode them as functions?
  • fishcorn: When someone mentions lens on freenode... zeus-lens!
  • neelk: So constructively we know this style can be used to meet hard performance deadlines in domains where the penalty for failure is literally radioactive flaming death.
  • edwardkmett: At one point we had a type in lens where one of its arguments started taking parameters of the form i m a s t a b u. Upon reflection, we let it win the argument and decided not to implement the function.
  • Ivan Appel: ... while the popular opinion says that the main reason to pick Haskell is "to have fun hacking," in fact it's not so fun to hack in Haskell because there's not such much hacking to do at the first place. For instance, you don't need to spend lots of effort tracing and fixing obscure bugs, so if your definition of "hacking" includes heroic bugfixing, you'd be better off with JavaScript or Perl.

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Until next time,
+Daniel Santa Cruz