Welcome to issue 180 of the HWN, a newsletter covering developments in the Haskell community. This release covers the week of May 29 to Jun 4, 2011. You can find the HTML version at: http://goo.gl/Tm1Qu Announcements Sebastian Fischer wrote in to inform us of of a student internship for parallel Haskell at the National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo. The internship is for up to three months, between July and September 2011. http://goo.gl/xHjkn EIJIRO Sumii reminded us that the ICFP Programming Contest 2011 will be starting on June 17. http://goo.gl/eumwm Quotes of the Week * Tom Murphy: Great! New I really can say "Come on! It's fun! I can write foldr with foldl!" * Cale: C++, Y U SO UGLY? * xplat: nae, that'd be 'arr, my small example ain't half near as yellow as a lily-livered spaniard! scupper me wi' a cutlass, arr.' * Cale: rnf accidentally the entire data structure Top Reddit Stories * Haskell and parallelism in the Economist Domain: economist.com, Score: 66, Comments: 5 On Reddit: http://goo.gl/rBnc1 Original: http://goo.gl/vFtGY * I have the world's coolest hoodie (X-post from r/programming) Domain: imgur.com, Score: 28, Comments: 15 On Reddit: http://goo.gl/bk5wt Original: http://goo.gl/CT3fb * An OpenGL in Haskell anecdote which illustrates the obvious, HOpenGL is low level and imperative. Domain: haskell.org, Score: 27, Comments: 24 On Reddit: http://goo.gl/QtDNy Original: http://goo.gl/LUoL9 * Yesod for non-Haskellers (also, for Haskellers) Domain: yesodweb.com, Score: 27, Comments: 2 On Reddit: http://goo.gl/ekOQJ Original: http://goo.gl/UCyIv * Fast forwarding lrand48() Domain: blog.sigfpe.com, Score: 24, Comments: 0 On Reddit: http://goo.gl/Ki0in Original: http://goo.gl/5ICat * Silk (Haskell, semantic web start up) is hiring in Amsterdam Domain: news.ycombinator.com, Score: 24, Comments: 0 On Reddit: http://goo.gl/GUFVP Original: http://goo.gl/j8fRW * Nikki and the Robots 0.3 is out Domain: joyridelabs.de, Score: 23, Comments: 7 On Reddit: http://goo.gl/w3yrF Original: http://goo.gl/sJdwj * Introducing the Yesod Wiki Domain: yesodweb.com, Score: 19, Comments: 0 On Reddit: http://goo.gl/4TStP Original: http://goo.gl/noMVO * Communicating Haskell Processes: The Long And The Short Of It Domain: chplib.wordpress.com, Score: 19, Comments: 0 On Reddit: http://goo.gl/mC8cw Original: http://goo.gl/hHHoH * What libraries from scientific computing have yet to be written? Domain: self.haskell, Score: 17, Comments: 23 On Reddit: http://goo.gl/QXwyA Top StackOverflow Questions * "A proof is a program; the formula it proves is a type for the program" [migrated] votes: 17, answers: 0 Read on SO: http://goo.gl/LfzPM * Writing foldl using foldr votes: 16, answers: 2 Read on SO: http://goo.gl/O7I0Z * Binary Serialization for Lists of Undefined Length in Haskell votes: 13, answers: 1 Read on SO: http://goo.gl/pZkyI * From C ++ to Haskell Classes and States votes: 12, answers: 2 Read on SO: http://goo.gl/yYt9R * Why does Haskell force data constructor's first letter to be upper case? votes: 11, answers: 3 Read on SO: http://goo.gl/dnGIl * Why is such a function definition not allowed in haskell ? votes: 10, answers: 5 Read on SO: http://goo.gl/0RoHY About the Haskell Weekly News To help create new editions of this newsletter, please send stories to dstcruz@gmail.com. Until next time, Daniel Santa Cruz