December 8, 2011

Haskell Weekly News: Issue 210

Welcome to issue 210 of the HWN, a newsletter covering developments in the Haskell community. This release covers the week of November 27 to December 3, 2011.

Announcements

Heinrich Hordegen announced a tentative 2012 meeting schedule for Munich Haskell group.

New and Updated Projects

  • data-timeout (Mikhail Vorozhtsov) Allows one to specify time units for timeouts and convert between them.
  • Netwire (Ertugrul Soylemez; 3.0.0) Major API change.
  • monad-control (Bas van Dijk; 0.3) New and improved API.

Quotes of the Week

  • Jafet: They're not nasty; their niceness is just distributed over more people
  • copumpkin: U NEED MOANAD
  • xplat: i have a feeling that trying to write an interesting dependently-typed program in Shen at any time in the near future would be like trying to host a holiday dinner starting with an empty lot, 2x4s, a stack of window panes, some cables and wiring boxes, sheets of drywall, disconnected appliances, roof shingles, rolls of insulation and bags of concrete
  • Axman6: {-# PRAGMA ThisShitNeedsMoarFast #-}

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Until next time,
Daniel Santa Cruz

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