October 12, 2011

Haskell Weekly News: Issue 203

Welcome to issue 203 of the HWN, a newsletter covering developments in the Haskell community. This release covers the week of October 2 to 8, 2011.

Announcements

Eric Y. Kow has released the 6th issue of the Parallel Haskell Digest.

Janis Voigtlander issued an invitation to send in contributions for the 21st edition of the Haskell Communities & Activities Report. The more the merrier!

New and Updated Projects

  • clientsession (Felipe Almeida Lessa; 0.7.3.1) Fix for security vulnerability.
  • hit (Vincent Hanquez) An implementation of low level git operations to read and write to a git repository.
  • OpenCL (Luis Cabellos; 1.0.1.3) An aparent fork of OpenCLRRaw package, done due to lack of updates from upstream.
  • HaTeX (Daniel Diaz Casanueva; 3) A set of combinators which allow you to build LaTeX code, following the LaTeX syntax in a type-safe manner.
  • Parsec (Antoine Latter; 3.1.2) A minor point release to the popular monadic combinator library.
  • knob (John Millikin) Allows creation of memory-backed handles.

Quotes of the Week

  • heatsink: Maybe, (), and Bool go to the Lone Star Bar. The bouncer stops Maybe and says, "we don't serve your kind here."
  • DanBurton: correction - there will always be a job for programmers to write code to share pictures of cats
  • quicksilver: what we need is an adapter package any-lens which uses whichever lens package is available then we get potentially the disadvantages of all, without being able to guarantee the advantages of any.
  • mauke: Go too considered harmful
  • ddarius: isJust :: Maybe a -> Bool; isJust = unsafeCoerce
  • ddarius: Well when people say you need a PhD to program Haskell, you can point out that SPJ doesn't have a PhD.

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Until next time,
Daniel Santa Cruz

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