Welcome to issue 294 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits

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

from April 27 to May 3, 2014

Quotes of the Week

* roconnor: oh no. edwardk and I can never meet otherwise it will be

revealed that I am actually him in a very short costume.

* edwardk: I'm a product mostly of old Wadler monad papers and TaPL

with some Cale thrown in.

* benzrf: zippers are fun / they are zippy! / anyway bye

Top StackOverflow Questions

* What is a good reason to use a type signature for functions when the compiler can infer the types

votes: 14, answers: 4

Read on SO: [35] http://goo.gl/48G9iZ

* Difference between Monad and Applicative in Haskell

votes: 9, answers: 5

Read on SO: [36] http://goo.gl/dL3a4s

Until next time,

[37]+Daniel Santa Cruz

References

1. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=107105028

2. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/24fw5k/nikki_and_the_robots_foss_haskell_game_has_been/

3. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/24hjak/so_i_reimplemented_freenet_in_haskell_what_now/

4. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/24hjak/so_i_reimplemented_freenet_in_haskell_what_now/

5. http://bitemyapp.com/posts/2014-04-29-meditations-on-learning-haskell.html

6. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/24adiv/meditations_on_learning_haskell_from_an_exclojure/

7. http://chrisdone.com/posts/the-printer-haskell-deserves

8. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/246iir/the_printer_haskell_deserves/

9. http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?ref=rss&id=2611829

10. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/243fm4/erik_meijer_the_curse_of_the_excluded_middle/

11. http://www.alfredodinapoli.com/posts/2014-04-27-my-road-to-haskell.html

12. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/246qty/my_road_to_haskell/

13. http://chrisdone.com/posts/identity-monad

14. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/24cq0u/the_identity_monad_trick/

15. http://blog.johantibell.com/2014/05/ekg-04-released.html

16. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/24g513/ekg_04_released/

17. https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/elm-discuss/1acyOfxvasA

18. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/24kvwh/evan_czaplicki_stop_saying_the_monad/

19. http://robots.thoughtbot.com/thinking-in-types

20. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/24k2wz/thinking_in_types/

21. http://www.yesodweb.com/blog/2014/04/disemboweling-wai

22. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/246e39/disemboweling_wai_aka_gutting_out_conduit/

23. https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Status/May14

24. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/246fos/ghc_status_report_may_2014/

25. http://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2014/04/29/what-do-you-think-is-impeding-haskell-from-getting-mainstream-adoption/

26. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/24ddu3/what_do_you_think_is_impeding_haskell_from/

27. https://www.fpcomplete.com/user/icelandj/Pattern%20synonyms

28. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/24fvyz/pattern_synonyms_for_dates_and_an_irc_bot/

29. http://elm-lang.org/blog/announce/0.12.1.elm

30. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/24jo48/elm_0121_fast_immutable_arrays/

31. https://github.com/purescript/purescript/releases/tag/v0.5.0

32. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/244z52/purescript_05_released/

33. http://rs.io/2014/04/30/why-category-theory-matters.html

34. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/24nhfc/why_category_theory_matters/

35. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23401698/what-is-a-good-reason-to-use-a-type-signature-for-functions-when-the-compiler-ca

36. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23342184/difference-between-monad-and-applicative-in-haskell

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