Welcome to issue 176 of the HWN, a newsletter covering developments in the Haskell community. This release covers the week of March 27 to April 02, 2011.
Announcements
Wren Ng Thornton announced the release of version 0.3.4 of unix-bytestring.
Ian Lynagh and the GHC team announced version 7.0.3 of GHC, containing a handful of bugfixes.
Jose A. Ortega Ruiz annouced the release of version 0.13 of xmobar. Might want to check it out specially if you are using xmonad!
Jason Dagit annouced release 0.2.0 of the nehe-tuts package, tutorials for using OpenGL.
David Sorokin annouced the release of his new library aivika: a multi-paradigm simulation library.
Tom Hawkins annouced version 0.3.1 of ImProve: an imperative DSL for hard realtime embedded applications.
Eric Y. Kow introduced the first issue of Parallel Haskell Digest, "a newsletter aiming to show off all the work that's going on using parallelism and concurrency in the Haskell community." Here is to hoping we get more of these!
George Giorgidze announced version 0.5.5 of DSH (Database Supported Haskell).
Jasper Van der Jeugt annouced the 7th Ghent Functional Programming Group meeting on Tuesday, April 26, in celebration of the group's first year of existance. The meetup will be at the Technicum building of Ghent University at 19:30.
Quotes of the Week
- lispy: [in response to "C++ is a huge language, the type system is complex"] real and imaginary components :) the imaginary bits are the type safety
- gwern: amazing `catch` (how sweet the type), that saved an exception like me! I once was thrown, but now am caught; was impure, but now pure be
- hpc: appEndo sounds like a harry potter spell
- monochrom: yeah, get out of Turing tarpit, provable termination, only to get into Godel tarpit
- xplat: to me, the great thing about pointfree programming is you don't have to let variable names get in the way of your logic. and the great thing about pointful programming is you don't have to let '(flip .) . (.) . (flip flip . join)' get in the way of your logic. it's nice to have multiple tools in your toolbox
- lispy: I've never looked at the gtk2hs source. I'm not sure I can muster the intestinal fortitude
- kmc: time to play "transfinite ordinal or asian emoticon"
- killing-joke: rip oop. "Object-oriented programming is eliminated entirely from the introductory curriculum, because it is both anti-modular and anti-parallel by its very nature, and hence unsuitable for a modern CS curriculum."
Top Reddit Stories
- Promo code to get Learn You a Haskell 40% off + e- book for free + swag
From (learnyouahaskell.com), scored 68 with 25 comments.
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Read the original post. - Real Time Edge Detection in Parallel Haskell
From (disciple-devel.blogspot.com), scored 39 with 9 comments.
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Read the original post. - Modern OpenGL with Haskell
From (arcadianvisions.com), scored 39 with 10 comments.
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Read the original post. - GHC migration to Git complete
From (haskell.org), scored 37 with 15 comments.
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Read the original post. - Haskell is 21 years old today!
From (twitter.com), scored 37 with 8 comments.
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Read the original post. - Re-implementing XMonad's core in Coq : Wouter Swiestra :: PDF
From (cs.ru.nl), scored 34 with 13 comments.
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Read the original post. - GHC 7.0.3 released
From (haskell.org), scored 33 with 9 comments.
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Read the original post. - "Reactive-banana and the essence of FRP". I implemented a small FRP library that can be mixed freely with imperative code.
From (apfelmus.nfshost.com), scored 30 with 7 comments.
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Read the original post. - New release of OpenGL NeHe tutorials in Haskell
From (self.haskell), scored 27 with 22 comments.
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- Do you read academic papers on a Kindle?
From (dmwit.com), scored 26 with 27 comments.
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Top StackOverflow Questions
- Implementing lazy functional languages votes: 19, answers: 3
- Is it possible to roll your own syntax sugar (like do-notation, or arrow-notation) in Haskell? votes: 12, answers: 2
- Are there any LL Parser Generators for Functional Languages such as Haskell or Scala? votes: 11, answers: 4
- Programming language for functional parallelism: F# vs Haskell votes: 10, answers: 6
- easy "undo" in functional data structures votes: 8, answers: 2
About the Haskell Weekly News
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Until next time,
Daniel Santa Cruz
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