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.
Top Reddit Stories
- Is Haskell the Cure?. From (mathias-biilmann.net), scored 60 with 60 comments.
- Writing Functions With Many Nameless Parameters. From (blog.atnnn.com), scored 41 with 6 comments.
- Want to help with the new hackage server? Jump in now.... From (haskell.org), scored 37 with 0 comments.
- Slides from my talk on benchmarking and other random topics at IFL. From (slideshare.net), scored 32 with 14 comments.
- "OCaml For the Masses" article on Slashdot. From (developers.slashdot.org), scored 30 with 49 comments.
- WebSockets support for WAI/Warp/Yesod: Thanks to Jasper's awesome work. From (github.com), scored 27 with 6 comments.
- A good explanation of the fixed point combinator in Haskell. From (playingwithpointers.com), scored 25 with 9 comments.
- ANNOUNCE: knob, a library for memory-backed handles. From (haskell.org), scored 24 with 9 comments.
- HaTeX 3 is out!. From (deltadiaz.blogspot.com), scored 23 with 17 comments.
- What should I use for web programming?. From (self.haskell), scored 22 with 30 comments.
- Practice for helping Java & C++ programmers learn Haskell: read programs with them, out loud. From (cliffordbeshers.blogspot.com), scored 21 with 4 comments.
- Creative partner request from a Haskell course's message board. From (imgur.com), scored 19 with 5 comments.
Top StackOverflow Questions
- Clean and type-safe state machine implementation in a statically typed language? votes: 17, answers: 11
- What happens if an Enumerator tries to consume input? votes: 16, answers: 1
- Are there type signatures which Haskell can't verify? votes: 11, answers: 2
- Comparision of enumerator vs. iteratee package votes: 11, answers: 1
- Will a value that has a type with class constraints actually be a function at run time? votes: 10, answers: 4
- Overloading (+) votes: 9, answers: 2
- Strange type error in Haskell let-expression -- what's the issue? votes: 9, answers: 3
- Haskell type declarations in 'where' -- what's going on? votes: 8, answers: 2
- Why is `http` in http-enumerator an Iteratee? votes: 8, answers: 1
- How to check for haskell package versions in ./configure? votes: 8, answers: 5
- Polynomial factorization in Haskell votes: 8, answers: 2
Until next time,
Daniel Santa Cruz
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