Welcome to issue 200 of the HWN, a newsletter covering developments in
the Haskell community. This release covers the week of September 11 to
17, 2011.
You can find the HTML version of this issue at:
Announcements
Chris Smith is exploring the interest of holding a Virtual
Hackathon, using Google+ and a Wiki. Come check it out if you would be
interested in being part of it!
Valentin Robert has completed Apprendre Haskell vous fera le plus
grand bien!, a translation of Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! into
French, and has also created a wiki page with basic information
about Haskell for the French speaking world. Kudos to Valentin for his
work on this project!
New and Updated Projects
* netwire (Ertugrul Soeylemez; 1.2.5) Multiple major and minor
changes.
* webwire (Ertugrul Soeylemez; 0.1.0) An experimental web
framework based on the functional reactive programming library
netwire.
* numerals (Roel van Dijk) Contains functions to convert numbers
to words in a number of languages.
* splaytree (Jehn Lato; 0.1) Provides splay tree based
implementations of Sets, Seqs, and RangeSets.
* qrcode (Chris Yuen) Intended to be a full featured QR Code
library with encoding and decoding and other advanced features.
* haskdogs (Sergey Mironov; 0.1) Project-level ctag file
generator.
Quotes of the Week
* Jafet: Can oleg create a term so complicated that even he could not
type-check it?
* ion: let es = ["vim", "emacs", "nano"] in map
(\e -> intercalate " and " (delete e es) ++ " suck, learn " ++ e) es
* cmccann: [on using SomeException] just catch all exceptions, then
ignore them. it's the industry-proven way
* kmc: une monade est comme une crepe. una monada es como un
burrito. eine Monade ist wie ein Strudel.
* dylukes: I learned PBMMPPULCDADMABRRRBBBLLTAAMMBBC. It's the
operator precedence of C.
* benmachine: ozataman: does it have a main, or a thing with type IO
thing which looks sort of mainish?
Top Reddit Stories
* Categorized Weaknesses from the State of Haskell 2011 Survey
* Haskell B. Curry, born Sept. 12, 1900
* The Records problem in Haskell - help build a consensus about how to fix it, finally
* Wrriten in Haskell: The Dynamic Scheduling System for the Green Bank Telescope
Domain: self.haskell, Score: 51, Comments: 4
* Announcing: Sirkel, a Haskell implementation of the Chord DHT with fault tolerance and replication!
* Not going to ICFP? Here's an excuse for you
* Announce: Yesod 0.9.2 - Everything Just Works
* A play in one act
* HaTeX 3 - New version of the Haskell LaTeX library.
* Open Quark: Another haskell like language on JVM. Much more older and mature than Frege. Yet unknown and forgotten.
Top StackOverflow Questions
* Proving “no corruption” in Haskell
votes: 17, answers: 3
* How to handle feature requests that add new package dependencies
votes: 13, answers: 3
* Left and Right Folding over an Infinite list
votes: 12, answers: 4
* Shorter way to write this code
votes: 11, answers: 6
* Can't link OpenCL on Windows with GHC
votes: 10, answers: 1
* What's the point of 'const' in the Haskell Prelude?
votes: 10, answers: 4
* Haskell functional dependency conflict
votes: 9, answers: 2
* DatatypeContexts Deprecated in Latest GHC: Why?
votes: 9, answers: 2
* Clojure equivalent of Haskell's “Scrap Your Boilerplate” (SYB)
votes: 8, answers: 1
* Why using functions defined in the same module faster than the same function defined in another?
votes: 8, answers: 2
* repeatedly applying a function until the result is stable
votes: 8, answers: 4
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Daniel Santa Cruz
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