Welcome to issue 289 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits

of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers

from April 1 to 5, 2014

Quotes of the Week

   * edwardk: Zombies are expensive.

Top Reddit Stories

   * foldl is broken!

     Domain: well-typed.com, Score: 148, Comments: 63

     On Reddit: [1] http://goo.gl/LXmJTV

     Original: [2] http://goo.gl/viOG5O

   * A small Haskell extension

     Domain: augustss.blogspot.nl, Score: 76, Comments: 23

     On Reddit: [3] http://goo.gl/buI46t

     Original: [4] http://goo.gl/LnAV9y

   * New GHC Features for 7.10.1 and Beyond

     Domain: haskell.org, Score: 74, Comments: 26

     On Reddit: [5] http://goo.gl/DdXTfO

     Original: [6] http://goo.gl/g0FPBS

   * Libc considered harmful

     Domain: sylvain-henry.info, Score: 58, Comments: 28

     On Reddit: [7] http://goo.gl/aq39Mf

     Original: [8] http://goo.gl/qdQDXm

   * Category Theory by Tom LaGatta

     Domain: youtube.com, Score: 58, Comments: 53

     On Reddit: [9] http://goo.gl/oIzG1e

     Original: [10] http://goo.gl/DeLu5G

   * Idris 0.9.12 released with major laziness, codata, and documentation updates plus metavars in types

     Domain: idris-lang.org, Score: 55, Comments: 25

     On Reddit: [11] http://goo.gl/4MtXJS

     Original: [12] http://goo.gl/3tXbqC

   * A cool paper I found on "Functional Programming and 3D Games". It discusses everything from collision detection to physics and texturing. [PDF]

     Domain: cse.unsw.edu.au, Score: 52, Comments: 3

     On Reddit: [13] http://goo.gl/6PYB2e

     Original: [14] http://goo.gl/Tf6fa2

   * Error reporting with locations

     Domain: augustss.blogspot.fr, Score: 47, Comments: 28

     On Reddit: [15] http://goo.gl/ikaENm

     Original: [16] http://goo.gl/hntlJT

   * [ANN] Haste now has a website and a mailing list

     Domain: haste-lang.org, Score: 42, Comments: 7

     On Reddit: [17] http://goo.gl/Ife2FA

     Original: [18] http://goo.gl/lRWmhv

   * Haskell in the Newsroom

     Domain: infoq.com, Score: 41, Comments: 5

     On Reddit: [19] http://goo.gl/M4tehD

     Original: [20] http://goo.gl/bpvgLA

   * Haskell application architecture best practices

     Domain: self.haskell, Score: 32, Comments: 23

     On Reddit: [21] http://goo.gl/XjHfNJ

     Original: [22] http://goo.gl/XjHfNJ

Top StackOverflow Questions

   * Haskell - Is it possible to make pointfree functions more readable using different combinators than (.)?

     votes: 11, answers: 1

     Read on SO: [23] http://goo.gl/5b036l

   * How to detect if a program has been compiled using -threaded?

     votes: 10, answers: 2

     Read on SO: [24] http://goo.gl/Cr7pMA

   * What does the star mean in this haskell code?

     votes: 9, answers: 2

     Read on SO: [25] http://goo.gl/qnolS7

   * What about arrows?

     votes: 9, answers: 2

     Read on SO: [26] http://goo.gl/b1wwp4

   * Triggering a documentation update for a Hackage package

     votes: 8, answers: 1

     Read on SO: [27] http://goo.gl/ErTVzf

   * Combining Data.Dynamic and type classes

     votes: 7, answers: 0

     Read on SO: [28] http://goo.gl/n8qMo9

   * Systematically applying a function to all fields of a haskell record

     votes: 6, answers: 3

     Read on SO: [29] http://goo.gl/tNkLGu

   * Transforming a List of 2-Tuples in Haskell

     votes: 6, answers: 3

     Read on SO: [30] http://goo.gl/dDe8QP

   * Error in ghci which I cannot reproduce in written haskell file

     votes: 6, answers: 1

     Read on SO: [31] http://goo.gl/bg8DCw

   * Why can I call a monadic function without supplying a monad?

     votes: 6, answers: 1

     Read on SO: [32] http://goo.gl/xZZ5iO

   * Deriving default instances using GHC.Generics

     votes: 6, answers: 1

     Read on SO: [33] http://goo.gl/Autu6r

Until next time,

[34]+Daniel Santa Cruz

References

   1. http://www.well-typed.com/blog/90/

   2. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/21wvk7/foldl_is_broken/

   3. http://augustss.blogspot.nl/2014/04/a-small-haskell-extension.html

   4. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2239wh/a_small_haskell_extension/

   5. http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2014-April/113373.html

   6. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/21wbme/new_ghc_features_for_7101_and_beyond/

   7. http://sylvain-henry.info/blog/posts/2014-04-01-libc-considered-harmful.html

   8. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/220ae4/libc_considered_harmful/

   9. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6L6XeNdd_k

  10. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/229scs/category_theory_by_tom_lagatta/

  11. http://www.idris-lang.org/idris-0-9-12-released/

  12. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2284s5/idris_0912_released_with_major_laziness_codata/

  13. http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~pls/thesis/munc-thesis.pdf

  14. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/21zush/a_cool_paper_i_found_on_functional_programming/

  15. http://augustss.blogspot.fr/2014/04/haskell-error-reporting-with-locations.html

  16. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/226otd/error_reporting_with_locations/

  17. http://haste-lang.org/

  18. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/21x4wm/ann_haste_now_has_a_website_and_a_mailing_list/

  19. http://www.infoq.com/presentations/haskell-newsroom-nyt

  20. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/222i82/haskell_in_the_newsroom/

  21. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/223i80/haskell_application_architecture_best_practices/

  22. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/223i80/haskell_application_architecture_best_practices/

  23. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22872098/haskell-is-it-possible-to-make-pointfree-functions-more-readable-using-differe

  24. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22839824/how-to-detect-if-a-program-has-been-compiled-using-threaded

  25. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22807728/what-does-the-star-mean-in-this-haskell-code

  26. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22871648/what-about-arrows

  27. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22783637/triggering-a-documentation-update-for-a-hackage-package

  28. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22876370/combining-data-dynamic-and-type-classes

  29. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22807619/systematically-applying-a-function-to-all-fields-of-a-haskell-record

  30. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22828259/transforming-a-list-of-2-tuples-in-haskell

  31. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22839784/error-in-ghci-which-i-cannot-reproduce-in-written-haskell-file

  32. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22841899/why-can-i-call-a-monadic-function-without-supplying-a-monad

  33. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22850983/deriving-default-instances-using-ghc-generics

  34. https://plus.google.com/105107667630152149014/about