[Haskell-cafe] Haskell Weekly News: October 25, 2007

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Issue 66 - October 25, 2007
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   Welcome to issue 66 of HWN, a newsletter covering developments in the
   [1]Haskell community.

   A huge month for the Haskell community, with the Haskell Workshop,
   ICFP and CUFP conferences, the second international Haskell Hackathon,
   and 63 libraries and tools uploaded to hackage! A round of applause to
   everyone involved!

   1. http://haskell.org/

Hackage

   This week's new libraries in [2]the Hackage library database.

   2. http://hackage.haskell.org/

     * SDL 0.5.0. Uploaded by Lemmih. [3]SDL, a binding to libSDL.

     * Stream 0.2.1. Uploaded by Wouter Swierstra. [4]Stream, functions,
       analogous to those from Data.List, to create and manipulate
       infinite lists

     * bktrees 0.1.1. Uploaded by Josef Svenningsson. [5]bktrees,
       Burhard-Keller trees provide an implementation of sets which apart
       from the ordinary operations also has an approximate member
       search, allowing you to search for elements that are of a certain
       distance from the element you are searching for.

     * happy 1.17. Uploaded by Simon Marlow. [6]happy, a parser generator
       for Haskell.

     * HaXml 1.19. Uploaded by Malcolm Wallace. [7]HaXml, utilities for
       parsing, filtering, transforming and generating XML documents.

   3. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/SDL-0.5.0
   4. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/Stream-0.2.1
   5. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/bktrees-0.1.1
   6. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/happy-1.17
   7. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/HaXml-1.19

     * polyparse 1.1. Uploaded by Malcolm Wallace. [8]polyparse, A
       variety of alternative parser combinator libraries, including the
       original HuttonMeijer set. The Poly sets have features like good
       error reporting, arbitrary token type, running state, lazy
       parsing, and so on. Finally, Text.Parse is a proposed replacement
       for the standard Read class, for better deserialisation of Haskell
       values from Strings.

     * bzlib 0.4.0.1 . Uploaded by Duncan Coutts. [9]bzlib, compression
       and decompression in the bzip2 format.

     * zlib 0.4.0.1. Uploaded by Duncan Coutts. [10]zlib, compression and
       decompression in the gzip and zlib formats

     * tar 0.1.1.1. Uploaded by Bjorn Bringert. [11]tar, a library for
       reading and writing TAR archives.

     * unix-compat 0.1.2.0. Uploaded by Bjorn Bringert. [12]unix-compat,
       provides portable implementations of parts of the unix package.
       This package re-exports the unix package when available. When it
       isn't available, portable implementations are used.

   8. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/polyparse-1.1
   9. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/bzlib-0.4.0.1
  10. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/zlib-0.4.0.1
  11. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/tar-0.1.1.1
  12. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/unix-compat-0.1.2...

     * oeis 0.1. Uploaded by Brent Yorgey. [13]oeis, Haskell interface to
       the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences.

     * dataenc 0.9. Uploaded by Magnus Therning. [14]dataenc, Data
       encoding library currently providing Uuencode, Base64, Base64Url,
       Base32, Base32Hex, and Base16.

     * cabal-setup 1.2.1. Uploaded by Simon Marlow. [15]cabal-setup,
       cabal-setup is a user interface to Cabal. It provides the basic
       commands for configuring, building, and installing Cabal packages.

     * cabal-install 0.4.0. Uploaded by cabal-devel@haskell.org.
       [16]cabal-install, apt-get like tool for Haskell. The 'cabal'
       command-line program simplifies the process of managing Haskell
       software by automating the fetching, configuration, compilation
       and installation of Haskell libraries and programs.

     * HTTP 3001.0.0. Uploaded by Bjorn Bringert. [17]HTTP, A library for
       client-side HTTP.

  13. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/oeis-0.1
  14. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/dataenc-0.9
  15. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/cabal-setup-1.2.1
  16. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/cabal-install-0.4...
  17. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/HTTP-3001.0.0

     * iconv 0.4. Uploaded by Duncan Coutts. [18]iconv, provides an
       interface to the POSIX iconv library functions for string encoding
       conversion.

     * binary 0.4.1. Uploaded by the Binary Strike Team. [19]binary,
       efficient, pure binary serialisation using lazy ByteStrings.
       Haskell values may be encoded to and form binary formats, written
       to disk as binary, or sent over the network. Serialisation speeds
       of over 1 G/sec have been observed, so this library should be
       suitable for high performance scenarios.

     * Cabal 1.2.1. Uploaded by cabal-devel@haskell.org. [20]Cabal: the
       Haskell Common Architecture for Building Applications and
       libraries = Libraries: a framework defining a common interface for
       authors to more easily build their Haskell applications in a
       portable way. The Haskell Cabal is meant to be a part of a larger
       infrastructure for distributing, organizing, and cataloging
       Haskell libraries and tools.

     * bytestring 0.9. Uploaded by Don Stewart and Duncan Coutts.
       [21]bytestring. fast, packed, strict and lazy byte arrays with a
       list interface.

     * arrows 0.3. Uploaded by Ross Paterson. [22]arrows, Several classes
       that extend the Arrow class, and some transformers that implement
       or lift these classes.

  18. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/iconv-0.4
  19. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/binary-0.4.1
  20. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/Cabal-1.2.1
  21. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/bytestring-0.9
  22. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/arrows-0.3

     * sat 1.0. Uploaded by Andrii Zvorygin. [23]sat, CNF(Clausal Normal
       Form) SATisfiability Solver and Generator.

     * pcap 0.4. Uploaded by Bryan O'Sullivan. [24]pcap,
       system-independent interface for user-level packet capture

     * hslogger4j 0.1.1. Uploaded by Bjorn Buckwalter. [25]hslogger4j,
       provides handlers for hslogger (John Goerzen's Haskell logging
       library) that are compatible with log4j's XMLLayout. In particular
       log messages created by the handlers can be published directly to
       the GUI-based log viewer Chainsaw v2.

     * IndentParser 0.2.1. Uploaded by Piyush P Kurur. [26]IndentParser,
       provides two modules, Text.ParserCombinators.Parsec.IndentParser
       and Text.ParserCombinators.Parsec.IndentToken, for constructing
       parser combinators for indentation based syntactic structures. The
       former exports the basic indentation parser combinators and the
       later together with Text.ParserCombinators.Parsec.Language and
       Text.ParserCombinators.Parsec.Token can be used to define
       tokenisers for programming languages.

     * lazysmallcheck 0.1. Uploaded by Matthew Naylor and Fredrik
       Lindblad. [27]lazysmallcheck, a library for exhaustive,
       demand-driven testing of Haskell programs. It is based on the idea
       that if a property holds for a partially-defined input then it
       must also hold for all fully-defined instantiations of the that
       input. Compared to `eager' input generation as in SmallCheck, Lazy
       SmallCheck may require significantly fewer test-cases to verify a
       property for all inputs up to a given depth.

  23. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/sat-1.0
  24. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/pcap-0.4
  25. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/hslogger4j-0.1.1
  26. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/IndentParser-0.2....
  27. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/lazysmallcheck-0....

     * HPDF 1.2. Uploaded by alpheccar. [28]HPDF, A PDF library with
       support for several pages, page transitions, outlines,
       annotations, compression, colors, shapes, patterns, jpegs, fonts,
       typesetting ...

     * xmonad. Uploaded by Spencer Janssen and Don Stewart. [29]xmonad,
       xmonad is a tiling window manager for X. Windows are arranged
       automatically to tile the screen without gaps or overlap,
       maximising screen use. All features of the window manager are
       accessible from the keyboard: a mouse is strictly optional. xmonad
       is written and extensible in Haskell. Custom layout algorithms,
       and other extensions, may be written by the user in config files.
       Layouts are applied dynamically, and different layouts may be used
       on each workspace. Xinerama is fully supported, allowing windows
       to be tiled on several screens.

     * HCL 1.2. Uploaded by Justin Bailey. [30]HCL, provides a set of
       functions for building simple command-line interfaces. It allows
       interfaces which collect values (such as Integers, Dates, or other
       structured values), build lists of values, and use simple menus.
       It is not intended to build complex interfaces with full cursor
       control. It is oriented towards line-based interfaces.

     * safecopy 0.2. Uploaded by David Himmelstrup. [31]safecopy, an
       extension to Data.Binary with built-in version control.

     * selenium 0.2.1. Uploaded by Aaron Tomb. [32]selenium, Haskell
       bindings to communicate with a Selenium Remote Control server.
       This package makes it possible to use Haskell to write test
       scripts that exercise web applications through a web browser.

  28. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/HPDF-1.2
  29. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/xmonad-0.4
  30. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/HCL-1.2
  31. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/safecopy-0.2
  32. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/selenium-0.2.1

     * HsOpenSSL 0.2. Uploaded by PHO. [33]HsOpenSSL, a (part of) OpenSSL
       binding for Haskell. It can generate RSA and DSA keys, read and
       write PEM files, generate message digests, sign and verify
       messages, encrypt and decrypt messages.

     * X11-extras 0.4. Uploaded by Spencer Janssen. [34]X11-extras,
       missing bindings to the X11 graphics library.

     * X11-1.2.3. Uploaded by Don Stewart. [35]X11, a Haskell binding to
       the X11 graphics library.

     * flow2dot-0.2. Uploaded by Dmitry Astapov. [36]flow2dot, generates
       sequence diagrams from textual descriptions with help of Graphviz
       graph drawing tool.

     * hsSqlite3-0.0.1. Uploaded by Evgeny Jukov. [37]hsSqlite, Bindings
       for Sqlite3

  33. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/HsOpenSSL-0.2
  34. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/X11-extras-0.4
  35. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/X11-1.2.3
  36. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/flow2dot-0.2
  37. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/hsSqlite3-0.0.1

     * X11-xft-0.1. Uploaded by Clemens Fruhwirth. [38]X11-xft, Bindings
       to the Xft, X Free Type interface library, and some Xrender parts.

     * metaplug-0.1.1. Uploaded by Austin Seipp. [39]metaplug, a ghc-api
       wrapper, designed to make the api more transparent across releases
       and offer eval and plugin esque facilities in the form of a
       simple, easy to modify library.

     * dimensional. Uploaded by Bjorn Buckwalter. [40]dimensional, a
       library providing data types for performing arithmetic with
       physical quantities and units. Information about the physical
       dimensions of the quantities and units is embedded in their types
       and the validity of operations is verified by the type checker at
       compile time. The boxing and unboxing of numerical values as
       quantities is done by multiplication and division with units. The
       library is designed to, as far as is practical, enforce/encourage
       best practices of unit usage.

     * ProbabilityMonads. Uploaded by Eric Kidd. [41]ProbabilityMonads,
       tools for random sampling, explicit enumeration of possible
       outcomes, and applying Bayes' rule. Highly experimental, and
       subject to change. In particular, the Data.Probability API is
       rather poor and could stand an overhaul.

     * MonadRandom. Uploaded by Eric Kidd . [42]MonadRandom, support for
       computations which consume random values.

  38. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/X11-xft-0.1
  39. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/metaplug-0.1.1
  40. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/dimensional-0.7
  41. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/ProbabilityMonads...
  42. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/MonadRandom-0.1.0

     * MaybeT. Uploaded by Eric Kidd. [43]MaybeT, Support for
       computations with failures.

     * network-bytestring. Uploaded by Johan Tibell.
       [44]network-bytestring, Faster and more memory efficient low-level
       socket functions using Data.ByteStrings instead of Strings.

     * irc. Uploaded by Trevor Elliott. [45]irc, a set of combinators and
       types for parsing IRC messages.

     * clevercss. Uploaded by Georg Brandl. [46]clevercss, a CSS
       preprocessing library that allows defining variables and nesting
       selectors so that you don't need to Repeat Yourself.

     * HsHyperEstraier. Uploaded by PHO. [47]HsHyperEstraier, a
       HyperEstraier binding for Haskell. HyperEstraier is an embeddable
       full text search engine which is supposed to be independent to any
       particular natural languages.

  43. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/MaybeT-0.1.0
  44. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/network-bytestrin...
  45. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/irc-0.2.3
  46. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/clevercss-0.1
  47. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/HsHyperEstraier-0...

     * libmpd. Uploaded by Ben Sinclair. [48]libmpd, client library for
       MPD, the Music Player Daemon.

     * hS3. Uploaded by Greg Heartsfield. [49]hS3, provides an interface
       to Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3), allowing Haskell
       developers to reliably store and retrieve arbitrary amounts of
       data from anywhere on the Internet.

     * infinity. Uploaded by Austin Seipp. [50]infinity, tiny IRC bot,
       extendable through plugins written in haskell

     * WURFL. Uploaded by alpheccar. [51]WURFL, support for the WURLF
       file format

     * hburg. Uploaded by Igor Boehm. [52]hburg, a program that generates
       tree parsers for cost-augmented tree grammars. It is useful for
       writing code generators for compilers. Given a mapping of a tree
       structured intermediate representation onto target machine
       instructions, HBURG generates a code generator that can be plugged
       into the instruction selection phase of a compiler.

  48. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/libmpd-0.1.3
  49. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/hS3-0.2
  50. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/infinity-0.1.1
  51. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/WURFL-0.1
  52. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/hburg-1.1

     * ipprint. Uploaded by Gleb Alexeyev. [53]ipprint, tiny helper for
       pretty-printing values in ghci console

     * numbers. Uploaded by Lennart Augustsson. [54]numbers, instances of
       the numerical classes for a variety of different numbers:
       (computable) real numbers, arbitrary precision fixed numbers,
       arbitrary precision floating point numbers, differentiable
       numbers, symbolic numbers, natural numbers, interval arithmetic.

     * numeric-quest. Uploaded by Henning Thielemann. [55]numeric-quest,
       List based linear algebra, similtaneous linear equations,
       eigenvalues and eigenvectors, roots of polynomials, transcendent
       functions with arbitrary precision implemented by continued
       fractions, quantum operations, tensors

     * shell-pipe. Uploaded by Henning Thielemann. [56]shell-pipe, shell
       scripting stuff.

     * hstats. Uploaded by Marshall Beddoe. [57]hstats, library of
       commonly used statistical functions.

  53. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/ipprint-0.3
  54. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/numbers-2007.9.25
  55. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/numeric-quest-0.1
  56. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/shell-pipe-0.1
  57. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/hstats-0.2

Libraries

   This week's proposals and extensions to the [58]standard libraries.

     * [59]In base, for Data.Version, change the meaning of comparisons

     * [60]Add Compositor class as superclass of Arrow

  58. http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Library_submissions
  59. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.libraries/7847
  60. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.libraries/7663

Conference roundup

   Haskell papers presented at the Haskell Workshp, ICFP and CUFP, in
   Freiburg, Germany.

     * [61]Andy Gill and Colin Runciman. Haskell Program Coverage (pdf)

  61. http://www.unsafeperformio.com/papers/Hpc07.pdf

     * [62]Simon Marlow, José Iborra, Bernard Pope and Andy Gill. A
       Lightweight Interactive Debugger for Haskell (pdf)

  62. http://www.haskell.org/~simonmar/papers/ghci-debug.pdf

     * [63]Wouter Swierstra and Thorsten Altenkirch. Beauty in the Beast:
       A Functional Semantics of the Awkward Squad (pdf)

  63. http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~txa/publ/beast.pdf

     * [64]Matthew Naylor, Emil Axelsson and Colin Runciman. A
       Functional-Logic Library for Wired (acm.org)

  64. http://tinyurl.com/2mw6jo

     * [65]Neil Mitchell and Colin Runciman. Uniform Boilerplate and List
       Processing; Or: Scrap Your Scary Types (pdf)

  65. http://tinyurl.com/yulkt4

     * [66]Philip Wadler and Simon Peyton Jones. Comprehensions with
       `Order by' and `Group by'

  66. http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/papers/list-comp/index.htm

     * [67]Geoffrey Mainland. Why It's Nice to be Quoted: Quasiquoting
       for Haskell

  67. http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~mainland/ghc-quasiquoting/

     * [68]Louis-Julien Guillemette and Stefan Monnier. A Type-Preserving
       Closure Conversion in Haskell (pdf)

  68. http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~monnier/tcm.pdf

     * [69]Demo 1: George Giorgidze and Henrik Nilsson. Programming
       Modular Synthesizer in Haskell (.mov)

  69. http://www.ludd.ltu.se/~pj/hw2007/modular%20synthesis.mov

     * [70]Demo 2: Martin Grabmüller and Dirk Kleeblatt. Run-time Code
       Generation in Haskell (.mov)

  70. http://www.ludd.ltu.se/~pj/hw2007/harpy.mov

     * [71]Joao Fernandes, Alberto Pardo and João Saraiva. A Shortcut
       Fusion Rule for Circular Program Calculation (pdf)

  71. http://www.fing.edu.uy/~pardo/papers/hw07.pdf

     * [72]Peng Li, Andrew Tolmach, Simon Marlow and Simon Peyton Jones.
       Lightweight concurrency primitives for GHC (pdf)

  72. http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~apt/hw07.pdf

     * [73]Demo 3: Don Stewart XMonad (.mov)

  73. http://www.ludd.ltu.se/~pj/hw2007/xmonad.mov

     * [74]Videos of all the Haskell Workshop talks

  74. http://www.ludd.ltu.se/~pj/hw2007/HaskellWorkshop.html

     * [75]Selected videos from ICFP and IFL

  75. http://www.ludd.ltu.se/~pj/icfp2007/ICFP2007.html

Jobs

   Finance. An NYC finance company [76]requires an expert level Haskell
   user; must be comfortable with monads, monad transformers, type level
   programming (i.e. MPTC, overlapping and undecidable instances), and
   lazy evaluation (i.e. know how to find and eliminate space leaks).

  76. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/30228

   Web Developer. RedNucleus Ltd [77]requires a highly motivated
   programmer for a full or part-time posititon developing social web
   applications. Initially you will develop and maintain applications
   using RubyOnRails or a similar framework, but there will be
   opportunities to explore new web programming paradigms with
   declarative languages. The successful application will have exposure
   to functional programming methodologies, e.g. in Haskell, Lisp or
   Erlang

  77. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/30685

Blog noise

   [78]Haskell news from the [79]blogosphere.

  78. http://planet.haskell.org/
  79. http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Blog_articles

     * [80]Strongly Specified Functions
     * [81]Amazon S3 binding
     * [82]Octane Mech, OpenGL Haskell based mech game; early code and some haskell notes
     * [83]Fast, parallel log file processing in Haskell
     * [84]Haskell in the Hallway: an interview with Simon Peyton Jones
     * [85]Agda Exercise: Sized Mergesort
     * [86]Agda Exercise: Proving that Mergesort Returns Ordered Lists
     * [87]Lazy functions in C# LlNQ
     * [88]Functional Javascript
     * [89]Seemingly impossible functional programs
     * [90]For most programmers learning Haskell will be no picnic : a tutorial

  80. http://sequence.complete.org/node/363
  81. http://scsibug.com/2007/09/23/haskell-s3-library/
  82. http://berlinbrowndev.blogspot.com/2007/09/octane-mech-opengl-haskell-based-...
  83. http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2007/09/25/what-the-heck-is-a-wide-finder-any...
  84. http://port25.technet.com/archive/2007/09/26/haskell-in-the-hallway-sam-inte...
  85. http://www.iis.sinica.edu.tw/~scm/?p=36
  86. http://www.iis.sinica.edu.tw/~scm/?p=37
  87. http://www.aboutcode.net/2007/09/27/Lazy+Functions+In+LINQ.aspx
  88. http://osteele.com/sources/javascript/functional/
  89. http://math.andrej.com/2007/09/28/seemingly-impossible-functional-programs/
  90. http://www.lisperati.com/haskell/ht5.html

     * [91]Haskell in industry: a surprising encounter!
     * [92]Exhaustive search over infinite binary trees
     * [93]How to Install HAppS
     * [94]Simple Haskell Web Programming with HAppS
     * [95]Haskell Web Spider, Part 1: HaXML
     * [96]Haskell Web Spider, Part 2: HXT, or I Was Promised There Would Be No Side Effects
     * [97]In praise of implementation-defined languages
     * [98]Arboreal Isomorphisms from Nuclear Pennies
     * [99]Higher-dimensional enumeration
     * [100]Haskell and my preception of programming languages

  91. http://pinderkent.blogsavy.com/archives/133
  92. http://conway.rutgers.edu/~ccshan/wiki/blog/posts/Exhaustive/
  93. http://bluebones.net/2007/09/how-to-install-happs/
  94. http://bluebones.net/2007/09/simple-haskell-web-programming-with-happs/
  95. http://kevin.scaldeferri.com/blog/2007/09/29/UrlSpider1HaXML.html
  96. http://kevin.scaldeferri.com/blog/2007/09/30/UrlSpider2HXT.html
  97. http://pozorvlak.livejournal.com/70452.html
  98. http://sigfpe.blogspot.com/2007/09/arboreal-isomorphisms-from-nuclear.html
  99. http://byorgey.wordpress.com/2007/10/01/higher-dimensional-enumeration/
 100. http://serishema.livejournal.com/28327.html

     * [101]Monads in Scala
     * [102]Total stream processors and quantification over infinite number of infinite streams
     * [103]The xmonad experience
     * [104]Wiring Haskell into a FastCGI Web Server
     * [105]A Link-Resolving Library
     * [106]Immutable data structures are the way of the future in C#
     * [107]What do you get when you curry partial application?
     * [108]Universal Architecture
     * [109]lambdacats
     * [110]A venture into functional programming (by a Python programmer)

 101. http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2007/10/monads-are-elephants-part-2.html
 102. http://conway.rutgers.edu/~ccshan/wiki/blog/posts/StreamPEval/
 103. http://braindump.dk/tech/2007/10/01/the-xmonad-experience/
 104. http://mult.ifario.us/articles/2007/10/03/wiring-haskell-into-a-fastcgi-web-...
 105. http://freeshells.ch/~revence/Link.lhs
 106. http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/archive/2007/10/04/path-finding-using-a-in...
 107. http://tinyurl.com/2mdo93
 108. http://luqui.org/blog/archives/2007/10/05/universal-architecture/
 109. http://arcanux.org/lambdacats.html
 110. http://pyside.blogspot.com/2007/10/venture-into-functional-programming.html

     * [111]Is Java Dying?
     * [112]Tracing your code... the dirty way!
     * [113]Using Emacs to insert SCC annotations in Haskell code
     * [114]Erlang and Haskell Books: First Impressions
     * [115]Update on F# and Haskell, especially monads
     * [116]Back from ICFP
     * [117]A Simple RPN Calculator in Haskell
     * [118]Another simple RPN calculator in Haskell
     * [119]A simple regex engine in Haskell
     * [120]The square of the Catalan sequence 

 111. http://fiatdev.com/2007/10/09/is-java-dying
 112. http://monadicheadaches.blogspot.com/2007/10/tracing-your-code-dirty-way.htm...
 113. http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2007/10/09/using-emacs-to-insert-scc-annotati...
 114. http://on-ruby.blogspot.com/2007/04/erlang-and-haskell-books-first.html
 115. http://jan.varwig.org/archiv/update-on-f-and-haskell-especially-monads
 116. http://sneezy.cs.nott.ac.uk/fplunch/weblog/?p=75
 117. http://jcreigh.blogspot.com/2006/11/simple-rpn-calculator-in-haskell.html
 118. http://meta-meta.blogspot.com/2007/10/simple-infix-calculator-in-haskell.htm...
 119. http://jcreigh.blogspot.com/2006/12/simple-regex-engine-in-haskell.html
 120. http://blog.plover.com/2007/10/12/#catalan-squared

     * [121]Haskell changing your thinking
     * [122]How I started off with Haskell and wound up with Lisp
     * [123]Phantom type problems
     * [124]My first trip to the phantom zone
     * [125]Writing Your Last For-Loop
     * [126]The Curry-Howard Correspondence in Haskell
     * [127]Tuppence Tour of Haskell Concurrency Constructs
     * [128]Is Haskell really expressive?
     * [129]A Quickstart to Haskell
     * [130]Respect C Programmers

 121. http://ephemient.livejournal.com/43696.html
 122. http://blog.vagmim.com/2007/10/how-i-started-off-with-haskell-and.html
 123. http://therning.org/magnus/archives/322
 124. http://therning.org/magnus/archives/323
 125. http://beautifulcode.oreillynet.com/2007/10/writing_your_last_forloop.php
 126. http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/formal/curryhoward/
 127. http://mult.ifario.us/articles/2007/10/21/tuppence-tour-of-haskell-concurren...
 128. http://monadicheadaches.blogspot.com/2007/10/is-haskell-reallt-expressive.ht...
 129. http://www.builderau.com.au/program/soa/A-Quickstart-to-Haskell/0,339024614,...
 130. http://kontsevoy.blogspot.com/2007/10/respect-c-programmers.html

     * [131]Building Functions from Functions, part 2: Function Composition
     * [132]On the Importance of Purity
     * [133]Functional programming - Back to the Roots
     * [134]Simpler, Easier! Or, how to write a simple dependent type checker
     * [135]Is Visual Basic 9 'Haskell for the Masses?'

 131. http://diditwith.net/2007/10/23/BuildingFunctionsFromFunctionsPart2FunctionC...
 132. http://higherlogics.blogspot.com/2007/10/on-importance-of-purity.html
 133. http://blog.codingnaked.com/?p=3
 134. http://augustss.blogspot.com/2007/10/simpler-easier-in-recent-paper-simply.h...
 135. http://blogs.teamb.com/craigstuntz/2007/10/25/37762

Quotes of the Week

     * As someone who has written production code in functional languages
       (Ive written Haskell for the U.S. Navy) and in other languages
       (Perl and Ruby for several startups), I have to say that Haskell
       enabled me to be way more productive than the untyped scripting
       languages. Ruby is fun, but Haskell lets me get the work done
       faster and better.

     * Perhaps if C wants to be taken seriously it should provide
       portability, which has been present in Haskell since the beginning

     * However, since starting learning Haskell I?ve had aha-moments that
       manifest themselves in a single line of code. This has never
       happened before. Ever!

     * Cale: Inheritance? Inheritance is broken, anyway

     * DRMacIver: I dread to think what category theory would look like
       after the software engineering world had got their grubby paws on
       it. Enterprise variant functors. Commutative UML diagrams.

     * DukeDave: Haskell has the greatest unlearning curve

     * Jon Harrop: As Haskell has shown, laziness cannot be implemented efficient at all.

     * Logan Capaldo: All I want for christmas is monad comprehensions

     * Olathe: We can't be totally sure, though. There might be some
       value of 1 that wasn't checked.

     * Pseudonym: Smart programmers naturally write monadic code, even if
       they don't realise it.

     * augustss: Haskell already has enterprise monads; there is a fail method.

     * bitwize: The combinator known as compose; Makes me extremely
       morose; The full stop is better, than writing in letters; Which
       makes it extremely verbose

     * glguy: map became not overloaded in the great polymorphic scare of
       haskell 98

     * mauke: haskell software should move from alpha to beta to eta,
       then lambda

     * pl0nk: I wonder what SPJ sees when he closes his eyes before
       answering a question.

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