September 28, 2011

Haskell Weekly News: Issue 201

Welcome to issue 201 of the HWN, a newsletter covering developments in the Haskell community. This release covers the week of September 18 to 24, 2011.

Announcements

Jasper Van der Jeugt sent more details about the 9th GhentFPG meeting, which will take place on October the 4th, at 19:30 in the Technicum building of Ghent University. "You don't have to be a Functional Programming guru to attend, everyone eager to learn is welcome."

New and Updated Projects

  • usb, bindings-libusb, usb-iteratee (Bas van Dijk; 1.0, 1.4.4, 0.4) Wrapers around the portable C library libusb-1.0
  • ivy-web (James Deng; 0.1) A lightweight web framework, with type-safe routes, based on invertible syntax, and i18n support, influenced by Django, Snap and Yesod.
  • lushtags (Bit Connor) ctags compatible tags files for Haskell programs.
  • lightweight monadic regions family (Bas van Dijk; multiple versions) Updates to regios, regions-mtl, regions-monadstf, regional-pointers, safer-file-handles, safer-file-handles-bytestring, safer-file-handles-text, and usb-safe.
  • skein (Felipe Almeida Lessa; 0.1) A family of fast secure cryptographic hash functions.

Quotes of the Week

  • dafis: I thought a C++ friend class was one you allowed to touch your private parts
  • edwardk: any time i can help, just ask. i may not actually help, but i'll be sure to note your suffering.
  • edwardk: i have a lot fewer [haddock problems] now since i stopped bothering trying to document ;)
  • edwardk: Had i thought of it earlier i could have named trifecta kessel run. at this point it looks like it'll contain at least 12 parsecs.
  • ddarius: The history of iteratees is making a simple idea complex.
  • shachaf: You can never escape having learned monads. If you learn two monads, though, you can go back to only knowing one.

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Until next time,
Daniel Santa Cruz

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