On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 22:45:40 +0200, Jason Dagit
Anyway, back to the original topic, some of the big items that I would mention to your friend include: * cabal/cabal-dev * hackage (and some of the better known libraries, Data.Vector/Data.Text/Data.ByteString) * Type Families * Haskell 2010 is the current rev of the language standard
Don't forget: - Haddock - Cabal (the standard, not the program) - Darcs - Hoogle - Hayoo - Better documentation in the base libraries - The Haskell Platform - Better performance of compiled Haskell programs - Improved Windows support - The ongoing Haskell Prime process for updating the Haskell language (See http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_prime ) - IDEs: EclipseFP and Leksah - The popular xmonad ( http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad ) - The debugger in GHCi - The popularity of Haskell on Reddit, Stack Overflow, IRC channels - The new site http://www.haskellers.com/ - More books, see http://members.chello.nl/hjgtuyl/tourdemonad.html - An enormous growth of e-mail on the mailing lists - An enormous growth of the number of packages - QuickCheck (this one is not very new) - The Industrial Haskell Group - The haskell.org committee (was formed a year ago to formalise the previously ad-hoc arrangements around managing the haskell.org infrastructure and money, see http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell.org_committee ) - New concepts for I/O: enumerators/iteratees, conduits - Many new extensions to the language, in GHC There is probably even more. For changes in the Haskell language, see http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_2010 Regards, Henk-Jan van Tuyl -- http://Van.Tuyl.eu/ http://members.chello.nl/hjgtuyl/tourdemonad.html Haskell programming --