--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haskell Weekly News http://sequence.complete.org/hwn/20080913 Issue 85 - September 13, 2008 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to issue 85 of HWN, a newsletter covering developments in the [1]Haskell community. Announcements citeproc-hs. Andrea Rossato [2]announced the first release of [3]citeproc-hs, a Haskell implementation of the [4]Citation Style Language. citeproc-hs adds a Bibtex-like citation and bibliographic formatting and generation facility to [5]Pandoc. Twidge. John Goerzen [6]announced the release of [7]Twidge, a command-line Twitter and Identi.ca client. Real World HAppS: Cabalized, Self-Demoing HAppS Tutorial (Version 3). Thomas Hartman [8]announced a new version of [9]happs-tutorial, with a correspondingly updated [10]online demo. generic list functions fixed. Jim Apple reported that genericTake, genericDrop, and genericSplitAt have [11]been fixed so they are now total functions (they used to fail on negative integer inputs, unlike their ungeneric counterparts). The Monad.Reader (13) - Call for copy. Wouter Swierstra [12]announced a call for copy for Issue 13 of the [13]Monad.Reader. The deadline for submitting articles is February 13, 2009. Heads Up: code.haskell.org is upgrading to darcs 2. Duncan Coutts [14]announced that /usr/bin/darcs on code.haskell.org will soon be upgraded to version 2. Most users should be unaffected as darcs 2 works just fine with repositories in darcs 1 format, and has been extensively tested for correctness. Discussion packages and QuickCheck. Conal Elliott [15]asked what methods of organization people use to package up QuickCheck tests for their libraries. Hackage needs a theme song!. Jason Dagit wrote a [16]theme song for Hackage! Jobs Gamr7. Lionel Barret De Nazaris [17]announced that [18]Gamr7, a startup in France focused on procedural city generation for the game and simulation market, is looking for a senior developer/technical director. senior role at Credit Suisse. Ganesh Sittampalam [19]announced that [20]Credit Suisse is seeking to recruit an expert in functional programming for a senior role in the Global Modelling and Analytics Group (GMAG) in the Securities Division. Blog noise [21]Haskell news from the [22]blogosphere. * Douglas M. Auclair (geophf): [23]What is declarative programming?. * John Goerzen (CosmicRay): [24]New Twitter Client: Twidge. * Mark Jason Dominus: [25]Return return. Mark's mind is blown by the code "return return" appearing in a paper by Mark Jones. * Eric Kow (kowey): [26]darcs weekly news #3. * Ketil Malde: [27]The FastQ file format for sequences. * >>> Nathan Sanders: [28]Real World Haskell. Nathan experiments with porting some of his Python code to Haskell. * Andrea Vezzosi (Saizan): [29]Results from GSoC. Andrea's GSoC work on a high-level dependency framework for Cabal is going to be released in a separate package for now, [30]hbuild. * >>> Ricky Clarkson: [31]An IRC Bot in Haskell, 20% code, 80% GRR. Ricky shares his experiences, frustrations, and eventual success writing a simple IRC bot in Haskell. * >>> Yaakov Nemoy: [32]Xmonad 0.8 released. * Luke Palmer: [33]The problem with Coq. ...is, according to Luke, that it doesn't have a nice graphical interface. * >>> James Cowie: [34]Haskell! yes no?. James dives into learning some Haskell. Verdict so far: a "very nice language". Quotes of the Week * EvilTerran: this is hard to express in this type system. i'm going to make my own type system instead! About the Haskell Weekly News New editions are posted to [35]the Haskell mailing list as well as to [36]the Haskell Sequence and [37]Planet Haskell. 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