August 10, 2011

Haskell Weekly News: Issue 194

Welcome to issue 194 of the HWN, a newsletter covering developments in the Haskell community. This release covers the week of July 31 to August 6, 2011.

Announcements

Andy Gill has issued a call for papers for the 23rd Symposium on Implementation and Application of Functinal Languages (IFL 2011) to be held at the University of Kansan, in Lawrence, Kansas, USA. The symposium is scheduled for October 3-5, 2011.

Anil Madhavapeddy issued a call for participation to the Commercial Users of Functional Programming Workshop (CUFP 2011), which will be co-located with the ICFP 2011 in Tokyo, Japan, on September 22-24, 2011.

The GHC team annouced the release of GHC 7.2.1

New and Updated Projects

  • Eddie (Mike Meyer): A tool for shell scripting with haskell.
  • HROOT (Ian-Woo Kim): Haskell binding to the ROOT analysis package.
  • vector-algorithms (Dan Doel): Efficient Algorithms for Vector Arrays.
  • Alex (Simon Marlow): Update. A lexical analyser generator for Haskell.

Quotes of the Week

  • kmc: when computer scientists rebuild the world after the apocalypse, we will have hanging gardens with trees that grow downward
  • kmc: a wise man once said that the entire world can be described as convex combinations of drugs, math, and cardboard
  • roconnor: as a rule of thumb, avoid any packages shipped with the Haskell Plaform.
  • kmc: Try the new GHC IO Scheduler! It's got what plants crave!
  • kmc: I refuse to believe that any loving god would invent the monomorphism restriction
  • AlanPerlis: It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
  • [kmc] do you have a theory where the stack overflow is coming from? [copumpkin] joel spolsky
  • cmccann: @faq is it possible to find things Haskell can't do? [lambdabot] The answer is: Yes! Haskell can do that.
  • kmc: Haskell isn't really designed by mathematicians. it's designed by people who programmers would consider to be mathematicians and mathematicians would consider to be programmers

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Until next time,
Daniel Santa Cruz

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