On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 3:47 AM,
<jfredett@gmail.com> wrote:
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Haskell Weekly News
http://sequence.complete.org/hwn/20091010
Issue 134 - October 10, 2009
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Welcome to issue 134 of HWN, a newsletter covering developments in the
[1]Haskell community.
What with Don Stewart's [2]call to [3]arms to lead Haskell to conquest
over (E)DSL-land, I've once again tried to highlight discussion of
EDSL's this week. Fortunately, it was actually more difficult choosing
what _not_ to include this week, since there was so much discussion
about DSLs and Syntax extensions (a related notion, in my opinion).
Also, this week Bryan O'Sullivan put his Criterion Library to good use
on the `text` package, leading to [4]code which is more than ten times
faster than before! With all this fantastic news, I won't hold you up
any longer, Haskellers, the Haskell Weekly News!
Announcements
CfPart: FMICS 2009, 2-3 November 2009, Final Call. FMICS 2009 workshop
chair [5]announced the final call for particpaction for FMICS 2009
ICFP videos now available. Wouter Swierstra [6]announced the
availablity of videos from the International Conference on Functional
Programming (ICFP)
GPipe-1.0.0: A functional graphics API for programmable GPUs. Tobias
Bexelius [7]announced the first release of GPie, a functional graphics
API for programmable GPUs.
text 0.5, a major revision of the Unicode text library. Bryan
O'Sullivan [8]announced a new, major version of the text package. New
API features, and huge improvments in speed, as Bryan says, 'Get it
while it's fresh on Hackage, folks!'
vty-ui 0.2. Jonathan Daugherty [9]announced a new version of the vty-ui
package, with fewer bugs, more widgets, and cleaner code due to new
more powerful abstractions.
htzaar-0.0.1. Tom Hawkins [10]announced HTZAAR, a Haskell
implementation of TZAAR
Graphalyze-0.8.0.0 and SourceGraph-0.5.5.0. Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
[11]announced To keep this editor happy, Ivan released two new packaged
in one announcement. This time, he's added Legend support to
Graphalyze, but also many new changes to SourceGraph, including a
legend so you can see what all the symbols mean, Better color support,
and much more.
TxtSushi 0.4.0. Keith Sheppard [12]announced a new version of TxtSushi,
a set of command line utilities for processing CSV and TSV files.
Discussion
Applicative do? Philippa Cowderoy [13]asked about a `do` like syntax
for Applicative functors.
How to add use custom preprocessor in cabal. Bernd Brassel [14]asked
how to add a custom preprocessor to the build chain of a cabal file.
On DSLs - one last time. Gunther Schmidt [15]summarized his impressions
on al the recent discussion of DSLs
What is a DSL? Oleg [16]offered some insight into different
[17]properties that can be part of a single tagless framework. He also
pointed to some slides and other materials such as a website [18]here
and slides [19]here about DSL implementations and definitions.
What is a DSL? Gunther Schmidt [20]posed the question, 'What is a DSL',
and with some further questions added by yours truly, a lively
discussion about the definition of a DSL ensued.
Finally tagless - stuck with implementation of 'lam'. Gunther Schmidt
[21]asked another question about Finally Tagless DSLs and resolving an
issue with the implementation of 'lam'
Blog noise
[22]Haskell news from the [23]blogosphere. Blog posts from people new
to the Haskell community are marked with >>>, be sure to welcome them!
* Darcs: [24]darcs weekly news #43.
* JP Moresmau: [25]What client for an Haskell Multi Player Game?.
* Mikael Vejdemo Johansson (Syzygy-): [26][MATH198] Third lecture is
up.
* Bryan O'Sullivan: [27]Announcing a major revision of the Haskell
text library.
* Eric Kow (kowey): [28]darcs hashed-storage work merged (woo!).
* David Amos: [29]Symmetries of PG(n,Fq).
* The GHC Team: [30]Parallelism /= Concurrency.
* >>> Nefigah: [31]Fake World Haskell. Nefigah, a recent addition to
the community, has been working through RWH, and is providing some
excellent examples. Though, This editor prefers the title 'Real
Life Haskell' as opposed to his choice.
* Tom Schrijvers: [32]Release 0.6 of Monadic Constraint Programming.
* Neil Brown: [33]Concurrency Can Be Deterministic (But The Type
System Doesn't Know It).
* Clint Moore: [34]Curiously Parallel.
* Galois, Inc: [35]Tech Talk: Constructing A Universal Domain for
Reasoning About Haskell Datatypes.
* Neil Brown: [36]Terminal Concurrency: The Printing Process.
* Sean Leather: [37]'Upwards and downwards accumulations on trees'
translated into Haskell.
* Mikael Vejdemo Johansson (Syzygy-): [38][MATH 198] Second lecture.
* Chris Smith: [39]View Patterns as Pattern Matching for Records.
* Chris Smith: [40]Playing With Records.
* FP Lunch: [41]Left Kan extensions of containers.
Quotes of the Week
* Baughn: Blum Blum Shub, a PRNG derived from poking around R'Lyeh.
* ksf: * lambdabot locks up ksf in a Monad <ksf> mmmmh it's warm and
fuzzy in here.
* monochrom: Don't wrap your head around Haskell. Immerse! Wrap
Haskell around your head.
* chak: ... In other words, FP is inevitable.
* robreim: I'm in your base hacking all your lambdas
* gwern: RAM is overrated, swap is where it's at ;)
* idnar: [to gwern] swap to a ramdisk! ;P
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References
1. http://haskell.org/
2. http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2009-October/067203.html
3. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/9qk54/haskell_should_own_the_edsl_space_a_call_to_arms/
4. http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2009/10/09/announcing-a-major-revision-of-the-haskell-text-library/
5. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/17555
6. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/17552
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14. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/64558
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24. http://blog.darcs.net/2009/10/darcs-weekly-news-43.html
25. http://jpmoresmau.blogspot.com/2009/10/what-client-for-haskell-multi-player.html
26. http://blog.mikael.johanssons.org/archive/2009/10/math198-third-lecture-is-up/
27. http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2009/10/09/announcing-a-major-revision-of-the-haskell-text-library/
28. http://koweycode.blogspot.com/2009/10/darcs-hashed-storage-work-merged-woo.html
29. http://haskellformaths.blogspot.com/2009/10/symmetries-of-pgnfq.html
30. http://ghcmutterings.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/parallelism-concurrency/
31. http://my.life-is-virtual.com/2009/10/07/fake-world-haskell-part-1/
32. http://tomschrijvers.blogspot.com/2009/10/release-06-of-monadic-constraint.html
33. http://chplib.wordpress.com/2009/10/07/concurrency-can-be-deterministic/
34. http://www.l2mlogistics.com/2009/10/curiously-parallel.html
35. http://www.galois.com/blog/2009/10/06/huffman-universal/
36. http://chplib.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/the-printing-process/
37. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/splonderzoek/~3/4E8TZPDZ-aM/upwards-and-downwards-accumulations-on.html
38. http://blog.mikael.johanssons.org/archive/2009/10/math-198-second-lecture/
39. http://cdsmith.wordpress.com/2009/10/04/view-patterns-as-pattern-matching-for-records/
40. http://cdsmith.wordpress.com/2009/10/03/playing-with-records/
41. http://sneezy.cs.nott.ac.uk/fplunch/weblog/?p=237
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47. http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/HWN
48. http://patch-tag.com/r/jfredett/HWN2/pullrepo%20HWN2
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