Welcome to issue 194 of the HWN, a newsletter covering developments in
the Haskell community. This release covers the week of July 31 to
August 6, 2011.
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Announcements
Andy Gill has issued a call for papers for the 23rd Symposium on
Implementation and Application of Functinal Languages (IFL 2011) to be
held at the University of Kansan, in Lawrence, Kansas, USA. The
symposium is scheduled for October 3-5, 2011.
Anil Madhavapeddy issued a call for participation to the Commercial
Users of Functional Programming Workshop (CUFP 2011), which will be
co-located with the ICFP 2011 in Tokyo, Japan, on September 22-24,
2011.
The GHC team annouced the release of GHC 7.2.1
New and Updated Projects
* Eddie (Mike Meyer): A tool for shell scripting with haskell.
* HROOT (Ian-Woo Kim): Haskell binding to the ROOT analysis
package.
* vector-algorithms (Dan Doel): Efficient Algorithms for Vector
Arrays.
* Alex (Simon Marlow): Update. A lexical analyser generator for
Haskell.
Quotes of the Week
* kmc: when computer scientists rebuild the world after the
apocalypse, we will have hanging gardens with trees that grow
downward
* kmc: a wise man once said that the entire world can be described as
convex combinations of drugs, math, and cardboard
* roconnor: as a rule of thumb, avoid any packages shipped with the
Haskell Plaform.
* kmc: Try the new GHC IO Scheduler! It's got what plants crave!
* kmc: I refuse to believe that any loving god would invent the
monomorphism restriction
* AlanPerlis: It is easier to write an incorrect program than
understand a correct one.
* [kmc] do you have a theory where the stack overflow is
coming from?
[copumpkin] joel spolsky
* @faq is it possible to find things Haskell can't do?
[lambdabot] The answer is: Yes! Haskell can do that.
* kmc: Haskell isn't really designed by mathematicians. it's designed
by people who programmers would consider to be mathematicians and
mathematicians would consider to be programmers
Top Reddit Stories
* "I'm very tempted to want to move to a functional programming language. Haskell or Ocaml or something" -John Carmack
* That seems like a challenge! Whatever happened to the hs->js compiler?
Domain:
xkcd.com, Score: 48, Comments: 12
* The Conditional Choice Operator
* Haskell For Kids! Introduction to My Upcoming Class
* seL4, a formally verified version of the L4 microkernel, was spec-prototyped in Haskell (PDF)
* Hi guys, I made a Haskell to Clojure translator. Check it out :D
* Moderator Guidelines : Them's the rules.
Domain: self.haskell, Score: 12, Comments: 0
* Library of conditional one-liners and combinators?
Domain: self.haskell, Score: 11, Comments: 39
* Zoom, a thor/rake-like task runner for Haskell (very alpha)
* Yesod form overhaul
* ETA on the Haskell Platform 2011.4.0.0 release?
Domain: self.haskell, Score: 8, Comments: 3
Top StackOverflow Questions
* Speed comparison C vs python vs erlang vs haskell
votes: 50, answers: 8
* Recursion schemes for dummies?
votes: 37, answers: 2
* Is it possible to place inequality constraints on haskell type variables?
votes: 11, answers: 1
* Haskell: Prefer pattern-matching or member access?
votes: 9, answers: 6
* Difference between TVar and TMVar
votes: 7, answers: 2
* Java's Interface and Haskell's type class: differences and similarities?
votes: 7, answers: 6
* Haskell code accompanying the Paul Hudak 1994 US Navy experiment paper [migrated]
votes: 7, answers: 0
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Daniel Santa Cruz
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