Haskell Weekly News: Issue 177

Welcome to issue 177 of the HWN, a newsletter covering developments in the Haskell community. This release covers the week of April 3 to 9, 2011.

Announcements

Brent Yorgey sent out a call for contributions for the second edition of Typeclassopedia.

Roel van Dijk started what became a popularthread on the mailing list about encodings of Haskell source files.

What would you like to see here? I have gotten mixed feedback on what constitutes interesting items for the "announcements" section of the mailing list. Some have pointed out that package announcements tend to be noisy and not all that interesting to the community at large, or that have a bias towards only pointing out packages where the maintainer decides to send an email to the mailing list. What do *you* think? How about the "calls for papers"? Do those catch your attention? Let me hear what you think.

Quotes of the Week

• ion: It’s a well-known historical fact cave men writing Haskell hated the ASCII pseudoglyphs.
• shapr: I persuaded academics to show up and hang out. [...] I told the academics that there were academics worth chatting with on #haskell :-)
• pjscott: If you really want to see something ridiculous, try looking at the auto-generated library documentation for anything involving regular expressions. The type declarations in Text.Regex.TDFA are like something H. P. Lovecraft might write about.
• monochrom: the road to haskell is paved with good abstractions

Top Reddit Stories

• Typeclassopedia second edition: call for contributions
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• High-Performance Web Applications In Haskell : Gregory Collins : QCon London :: PDF
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• Haskell For the Cloud (new paper by Jeff Epstein, Andrew Black, and and Simon Peyton Jones)
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• Yhc is dead !?
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• What is a functional language? :: Robert Harper
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• Functions are values
  From (existentialtype.wordpress.com), scored 27 with 16 comments.
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• Understanding practical API design, static typing and functional programming.
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• Platform Robots in Nikki and the Robots: a Haskell platform game
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• A Model for Denotative Continuous-Time Programming (AKA: FRP)
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• Type Kata: Local data type
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Top StackOverflow Questions

• Difference between State, ST, IORef, and MVar votes: 16, answers: 3
• Duality approaches in functional programming votes: 11, answers: 1
• What are the main differences of language features between Haskell and the functional part of F#? [closed] votes: 9, answers: 5
• Using the Maybe Monad in "reverse" in Haskell votes: 9, answers: 3
• How to reason about space complexity in Haskell votes: 8, answers: 1

About the Haskell Weekly News

To help create new editions of this newsletter, please send stories to dstcruz@gmail.com. I'm in dire need of finding good "quotes of the week". If you happen to come across any, please don't hesitate to send it along.

Until next time,
Daniel Santa Cruz