November 2019 - Haskell-Cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] [FP] Postdoc position at University of Bristol in functional programming
by Meng Wang 04 Nov '19

04 Nov '19

Dear Haskellers, The programming languages group at Bristol has an open post doc position in the area of functional programming. Haskell programmers are particularly welcome. Please pass it on to anyone who might be interested. Thanks! Best regards, Meng Meng Wang, PhD (Oxon) Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) Department of Computer Science University of Bristol Merchant Venturers Building, Woodland Road, Clifton BS8 1UB +44 (0) 117 954 5145 meng.wang(a)bristol.ac.uk We are looking for an enthusiastic, self-motivated individual to contribute to an EPSRC-funded project, which aims to design programming languages that guarantee strong properties, and the application of them. The post holder will be based in the programming languages group at the University of Bristol Computer Science Department, which consists of three academics, two PDRAs, and a number of PhD students. You will also be working with a network of partners from Oxford, Edinburgh, Tohoku Japan, Chalmers Sweden, and industrial partner DFINITY Foundations providing expertise on WebAssembly. You should have a PhD in programming languages, or a closely related field. This post is available immediately and is offered on a full-time based for an initial term of three years. Appointment at a higher salary point than grade I is possible based on relevant experience. Informal enquiries should be addressed to Dr. Meng Wang (meng.wang(a)bristol.ac.uk) For more details about this position, please see: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/details.html?nPostingID=57894&nPostingTa… Deadline: 25 November 2019

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2019 State of Haskell Survey
by Taylor Fausak 04 Nov '19

04 Nov '19

Hi friends! I am excited to announce the third annual State of Haskell Survey. I’d appreciate it if you could take a few minutes to fill it out. Thanks! https://haskellweekly.news/survey/2019.html

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Journal of Functional Programming - Call for PhD Abstracts
by Graham Hutton 04 Nov '19

04 Nov '19

============================================================ CALL FOR PHD ABSTRACTS Journal of Functional Programming Deadline: 30th November 2019 http://tinyurl.com/jfp-phd-abstracts ============================================================ PREAMBLE: Many students complete PhDs in functional programming each year. As a service to the community, twice per year the Journal of Functional Programming publishes the abstracts from PhD dissertations completed during the previous year. The abstracts are made freely available on the JFP website, i.e. not behind any paywall. They do not require any transfer of copyright, merely a license from the author. A dissertation is eligible for inclusion if parts of it have or could have appeared in JFP, that is, if it is in the general area of functional programming. The abstracts are not reviewed. Please submit dissertation abstracts according to the instructions below. We welcome submissions from both the PhD student and PhD advisor/supervisor although we encourage them to coordinate. ============================================================ SUBMISSION: Please submit the following information to Graham Hutton <graham.hutton(a)nottingham.ac.uk> by 30th November 2019: o Dissertation title: (including any subtitle) o Student: (full name) o Awarding institution: (full name and country) o Date of PhD award: (month and year; depending on the institution, this may be the date of the viva, corrections being approved, graduation ceremony, or otherwise) o Advisor/supervisor: (full names) o Dissertation URL: (please provide a permanently accessible link to the dissertation if you have one, such as to an institutional repository or other public archive; links to personal web pages should be considered a last resort) o Dissertation abstract: (plain text, maximum 350 words; you may use \emph{...} for emphasis, but we prefer no other markup or formatting; if your original abstract exceeds the word limit, please submit an abridged version within the limit) Please do not submit a copy of the dissertation itself, as this is not required. JFP reserves the right to decline to publish abstracts that are not deemed appropriate. ============================================================ PHD ABSTRACT EDITOR: Graham Hutton School of Computer Science University of Nottingham Nottingham NG8 1BB United Kingdom ============================================================ This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender and delete the email and attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored where permitted by law.

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hindent: maintainer needed
by Christopher Done 03 Nov '19

03 Nov '19

Hi all, I'm sunsetting my maintenance of hindent. It basically does what I want and has done for the last four years. I've put enough hours into this project that I'm ready to move onto new things. The approach of using GHC to format code is already being explored by at least two other projects: * brittany <http://hackage.haskell.org/package/brittany> * ormolu <https://github.com/tweag/ormolu> So if you still want hindent to continue being updated, I suggest you take over as maintainer, either as a group or an individual. Feel free to comment here. I'm happy to create an organization and move the project into it. In the absence of anyone taking over, the GitHub project will be archived on Jan 31st. By that point, the issues/PRs will be lost. There is a related GitHub issue here: <https://github.com/chrisdone/hindent/issues/557> Cheers, Chris

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Call for maintainer: formatting package
by Christopher Done 03 Nov '19

03 Nov '19

Hi all, The formatting package needs a maintainer. I made this package 6 years ago based on the HoleyMonoid package's idea. I thought it would become a staple package for me. Since then, I have basically never actually used it in a project. It turns out, I don't like the printf-style of doing printing at all, and prefer to just manually append things. As such, it doesn't make sense for me to maintain this package. Feel free to comment here or on the GitHub issue if you are interested: https://github.com/chrisdone/formatting/issues/58 Cheers, Chris

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Expired certificate for prime.haskell.org
by Simon Jakobi 02 Nov '19

02 Nov '19

Hi! I just wanted to give someone a link to the Semigroup-Monoid-proposal, but couldn't open the page in Chromium: https://prime.haskell.org/wiki/Libraries/Proposals/SemigroupMonoid There's already a short email thread regarding the issue from April on the haskell-prime mailing list: https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-prime/2019-April/004448.html It would be nice if proposals like the SMP remained accessible! Cheers, Simon

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