Welcome to issue 190 of the HWN, a newsletter covering developments in the Haskell community. This release covers the week of July 3 to 9, 2011. You can find the HTML version of this issue at: http://contemplatecode.blogspot.com/2011/07/haskell-weekly-news-issue-190.ht... Announcements Karel Gardas announced that he, Stephen Blackheath, and David Terei are "working together on ARM registerised port of GHC. The port is using LLVM as a code generator and in kind of working already." Testing is much appreciated! [1] http://goo.gl/TVvGD Matthias Fischmann inveted people to the HacPhi satellite in Berlin on July 29-31. See the post for details. Admission is free, but there is limited space, so don't wait too long! [2] http://goo.gl/XqdvI Quotes of the Week * chrisdone: [on hpaste as motivational tool] When I added hlint I was like 'hey Neil, check this', and he was all 'Oh noes! I must fix all the bugs!' * *amacleod started excising GOTOs from his BASIC code when he was 10. *roconnor started excising GOTOs from his Pascal code when he was 11. *luite used goto's in his C code last year. * AlanPerlis: One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means. * Axman6: well, if C++ is anything to go by, the next Haskell will have lambdas and easy concurrency! * Cale: Constructing a definition from a type is formally the same thing as constructing a proof from a theorem. (Just with different logical systems in place :) * xplat: im in ur Sierpinski space, classifyin' ur subobjects * cmccann: in ContT, flow controls you * [Kron] What is the meaning of life? D: [joe6] learning agda? * camccann: Applying readFile to a file path doesn't return a String value any more than putting a steak next to a meat grinder magically turns them into a hamburger. * blackdog: the type system makes you strong, makes you hard. Top Reddit Stories * GHC on ARM Domain: ghcarm.wordpress.com, Score: 35, Comments: 4 On Reddit: [3] http://goo.gl/idJ7s Original: [4] http://goo.gl/D5zjE * The Monad.Reader Issue 18 Domain: themonadreader.wordpress.com, Score: 32, Comments: 3 On Reddit: [5] http://goo.gl/XA67w Original: [6] http://goo.gl/tzVX2 * Haskell vs. ML in the context of "Worse is Better" Domain: news.ycombinator.com, Score: 31, Comments: 25 On Reddit: [7] http://goo.gl/LpTbP Original: [8] http://goo.gl/bNU4w * Do (side) effects really need a total order? Domain: pchiusano.blogspot.com, Score: 31, Comments: 8 On Reddit: [9] http://goo.gl/jfxWl Original: [10] http://goo.gl/5tmUZ * Call for GUI examples - Any small GUI applications that you would like to see implemented with Functional Reactive Programming? Domain: apfelmus.nfshost.com, Score: 30, Comments: 13 On Reddit: [11] http://goo.gl/MMZJb Original: [12] http://goo.gl/X7IXP * Impredicative Polymorphism - A Use Case Domain: augustss.blogspot.com, Score: 23, Comments: 6 On Reddit: [13] http://goo.gl/QCwpt Original: [14] http://goo.gl/owsJT * Yesod :: Testimonials from a developer and designer Domain: yesodweb.com, Score: 19, Comments: 9 On Reddit: [15] http://goo.gl/5HOKo Original: [16] http://goo.gl/Zad2d * Parallelizing a nonogram solver Domain: jaspervdj.be, Score: 14, Comments: 2 On Reddit: [17] http://goo.gl/5LFlF Original: [18] http://goo.gl/BUbUA * A Haskell newbie's guide to Snap, Part 2 Domain: learnmeahaskell.blogspot.com, Score: 13, Comments: 0 On Reddit: [19] http://goo.gl/KTW50 Original: [20] http://goo.gl/rF1B1 * Losing my mind: Is Rhask (R language+Haskell) a real entity? Domain: self.haskell, Score: 11, Comments: 8 On Reddit: [21] http://goo.gl/O95KN Original: [22] http://goo.gl/O95KN Top StackOverflow Questions * How to gain control of a 5GB heap in Haskell? votes: 27, answers: 1 Read on SO: [23] http://goo.gl/OdZIG * Using higher-order Haskell types in C# votes: 16, answers: 2 Read on SO: [24] http://goo.gl/qzvok * Why applicative functors in Haskell and functional programming votes: 16, answers: 6 Read on SO: [25] http://goo.gl/72kE7 * Is there OS written in Haskell? votes: 16, answers: 3 Read on SO: [26] http://goo.gl/PgOeO * A good way to avoid “sharing”? votes: 15, answers: 1 Read on SO: [27] http://goo.gl/9GLzu * Hard Time Learning Haskell [migrated] votes: 13, answers: 0 Read on SO: [28] http://goo.gl/hhonY * Creating a Haskell REPL within a Haskell application votes: 11, answers: 1 Read on SO: [29] http://goo.gl/jZU7I 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 References 1. http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/90890 2. http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/90922 3. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/ija21/ghc_on_arm/ 4. http://ghcarm.wordpress.com/2011/07/06/armv7-thumb-vfpv3-support-and-github-... 5. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/ihz6h/the_monadreader_issue_18/ 6. http://themonadreader.wordpress.com/2011/07/05/issue-18/ 7. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/ig4yk/haskell_vs_ml_in_the_context_... 8. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2725386 9. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/iihrl/do_side_effects_really_need_a... 10. http://pchiusano.blogspot.com/2011/07/do-side-effects-really-need-total-orde... 11. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/ijsnv/call_for_gui_examples_any_sma... 12. http://apfelmus.nfshost.com/blog/2011/07/08-call-for-gui-examples.html 13. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/il5g5/impredicative_polymorphism_a_... 14. http://augustss.blogspot.com/2011/07/impredicative-polymorphism-use-case-in.... 15. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/iitr1/yesod_testimonials_from_a_dev... 16. http://www.yesodweb.com/page/testimonials 17. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/ihdbh/parallelizing_a_nonogram_solv... 18. http://jaspervdj.be/posts/2011-07-05-parallelizing-a-nonogram-solver.html 19. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/iiksr/a_haskell_newbies_guide_to_sn... 20. http://learnmeahaskell.blogspot.com/2011/07/haskell-newbies-guide-to-snap-pa... 21. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/ig5mk/losing_my_mind_is_rhask_r_lan... 22. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/ig5mk/losing_my_mind_is_rhask_r_lan... 23. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6623391/how-to-gain-control-of-a-5gb-heap... 24. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6562378/using-higher-order-haskell-types-... 25. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6570779/why-applicative-functors-in-haske... 26. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6638080/is-there-os-written-in-haskell 27. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6614023/a-good-way-to-avoid-sharing 28. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6618081/hard-time-learning-haskell-migrat... 29. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6588999/creating-a-haskell-repl-within-a-...