Welcome to issue 226 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits
of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the
week of April 29 to May 5, 2012.

Quotes of the Week

   * acowley: I write the most complicated bottoms

   * Cale: OpenGL is the Rubik's Cube of graphics libraries. It's nearly
           impossible to change some things without affecting other things

Top Reddit Stories

   * HJ — Haskell-to-JavaScript compiler (WIP)
     Domain: chrisdone.com, Score: 74, Comments: 23
     On Reddit: [1] http://goo.gl/gP51N
     Original:  [2] http://goo.gl/g32rz

   * Life Without Objects
     Domain: skipoleschris.blogspot.co.uk, Score: 52, Comments: 17
     On Reddit: [3] http://goo.gl/LZmLC
     Original:  [4] http://goo.gl/NLhKH

   * New major release of the containers package
     Domain: blog.johantibell.com, Score: 52, Comments: 25
     On Reddit: [5] http://goo.gl/yjblJ
     Original:  [6] http://goo.gl/DKlmd

   * Haskell and the World: Encodings and the Common Misuse of ByteString
     Domain: a-dimit.blogspot.com, Score: 50, Comments: 27
     On Reddit: [7] http://goo.gl/WloCn
     Original:  [8] http://goo.gl/oeIIW

   * How to write hybrid CPU/GPU programs with Haskell
     Domain: parfunk.blogspot.com.au, Score: 48, Comments: 3
     On Reddit: [9] http://goo.gl/u9A9l
     Original: [10] http://goo.gl/s917R

   * phantom tainting with kind error messages
     Domain: article.gmane.org, Score: 35, Comments: 5
     On Reddit: [11] http://goo.gl/V9qRd
     Original:  [12] http://goo.gl/cx4cD

   * Annotated slides: Comparing Dynamic and Static Language Approaches to 
     Web Frameworks (Rails vs Yesod)
     Domain: cs.kent.ac.uk, Score: 32, Comments: 11
     On Reddit: [13] http://goo.gl/jE2iK
     Original:  [14] http://goo.gl/2dIjQ

   * SPJ talk: Towards Haskell in the Cloud
     Domain: skillsmatter.com, Score: 30, Comments: 16
     On Reddit: [15] http://goo.gl/fVc0e
     Original:  [16] http://goo.gl/NMtPD

   * hotswap -- a simple, high level interface to plugins for hotswapping code
     Domain: hackage.haskell.org, Score: 29, Comments: 8
     On Reddit: [17] http://goo.gl/kvhOS
     Original:  [18] http://goo.gl/VMAe0

   * Online Haskell typechecker
     Domain: haskellonline.org, Score: 29, Comments: 12
     On Reddit: [19] http://goo.gl/uV3HY
     Original:  [20] http://goo.gl/lSwhb

Top StackOverflow Questions

   * Algebraically interpreting polymorphism
     votes: 21, answers: 5
     Read on SO: [21] http://goo.gl/7krnc

   * Absolute value of negative zero - bug, or a part of the floating 
     point standard?
     votes: 16, answers: 3
     Read on SO: [22] http://goo.gl/HDpRc

   * how to implement doubly linked lists
     votes: 10, answers: 1
     Read on SO: [23] http://goo.gl/hXyDM

   * GHC type inference for higher rank types - assigning to monotypes
     votes: 10, answers: 1
     Read on SO: [24] http://goo.gl/TqYtX

   * Communication between Java and Haskell
     votes: 9, answers: 3
     Read on SO: [25] http://goo.gl/zMYwx

   * Default constraint kinds are ignored
     votes: 9, answers: 2
     Read on SO: [26] http://goo.gl/AElL4

   * Scrap Your Boilerplate equivalent in Scala?
     votes: 7, answers: 1
     Read on SO: [27] http://goo.gl/Cd7k4

   * Does the chain function in underscore.js create a monad?
     votes: 7, answers: 1
     Read on SO: [28] http://goo.gl/DUYkB

   * Why do Haskell list comprehensions with multiple generators treat the 
     rightmost generator as the tightest loop?
     votes: 6, answers: 3
     Read on SO: [29] http://goo.gl/BnndW

   * Haskell records, cleaner approach?
     votes: 6, answers: 1
     Read on SO: [30] http://goo.gl/MymyL

Until next time,
Daniel Santa Cruz

References

   1. http://chrisdone.com/hj/
   2. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/t06ej/hj_haskelltojavascript_compiler_wip/
   3. http://skipoleschris.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/life-without-objects.html
   4. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/t1oen/life_without_objects/
   5. http://blog.johantibell.com/2012/05/new-major-release-of-containers-package.html
   6. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/t688l/new_major_release_of_the_containers_package/
   7. http://a-dimit.blogspot.com/2012/04/strings-in-haskell.html
   8. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/syo8h/haskell_and_the_world_encodings_and_the_common/
   9. http://parfunk.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/how-to-write-hybrid-cpugpu-programs.html
  10. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/t7znh/how_to_write_hybrid_cpugpu_programs_with_haskell/
  11. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/98103
  12. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/t6dn7/phantom_tainting_with_kind_error_messages/
  13. http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/~nccb/rails-yesod-slides.pdf
  14. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/t1aw8/annotated_slides_comparing_dynamic_and_static/
  15. http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/home/haskell-cloud/js-4179
  16. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/t0qg0/spj_talk_towards_haskell_in_the_cloud/
  17. http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hotswap-0.1.9.3
  18. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/t24lr/hotswap_a_simple_high_level_interface_to_plugins/
  19. http://haskellonline.org/
  20. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/t41bk/online_haskell_typechecker/
  21. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10453558/algebraically-interpreting-polymorphism
  22. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10395761/absolute-value-of-negative-zero-bug-or-a-part-of-the-floating-point-standard
  23. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10386616/how-to-implement-doubly-linked-lists
  24. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10424375/ghc-type-inference-for-higher-rank-types-assigning-to-monotypes
  25. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10370177/communication-between-java-and-haskell
  26. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10381278/default-constraint-kinds-are-ignored
  27. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10423329/scrap-your-boilerplate-equivalent-in-scala
  28. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10431999/does-the-chain-function-in-underscore-js-create-a-monad
  29. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10399577/why-do-haskell-list-comprehensions-with-multiple-generators-treat-the-rightmost
  30. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10427217/haskell-records-cleaner-approach