Welcome to issue 286 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits
of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the
weeks of November 03 to 09, 2013.

Quotes of the Week

   * edwardk: (->) is syntax, sadly.

   * chrisdone: my brother was killed by an IO monad
     hpc: i guess it started as an evaluation, but ended up as an
     execution...

   * mauke: no, haskell doesn't support trees

   * un1xguy: first web server was written in php...

Top Reddit Stories

   * Haskell, the Language Most Likely to Change the 
     Way you Think About Programming
     Domain: m.huffpost.com, Score: 54, Comments: 71
     On Reddit: [1] http://goo.gl/E0dfbl
     Original: [2] http://goo.gl/1CGVmK

   * Announcing 24 Days of Hackage 2013 - I need your help!
     Domain: ocharles.org.uk, Score: 53, Comments: 45
     On Reddit: [3] http://goo.gl/7RupOj
     Original: [4] http://goo.gl/6Uog4B

   * Pyret: New teaching language from makers of Racket with 
     ADTs and pattern matching
     Domain: pyret.org, Score: 47, Comments: 25
     On Reddit: [5] http://goo.gl/Xeyyyh
     Original: [6] http://goo.gl/GJmYgI

   * haskintex: Write and run Haskell within LaTeX
     Domain: daniel-diaz.github.io, Score: 42, Comments: 14
     On Reddit: [7] http://goo.gl/1UTbdL
     Original: [8] http://goo.gl/2DbE5I

   * Haskell.org SSL rollout
     Domain: hackage.haskell.org, Score: 41, Comments: 9
     On Reddit: [9] http://goo.gl/2DvgLX
     Original: [10] http://goo.gl/M0QwMh

   * Why Lists?
     Domain: self.haskell, Score: 36, Comments: 54
     On Reddit: [11] http://goo.gl/Y2ma9V
     Original: [12] http://goo.gl/Y2ma9V

   * Frege: a JVM pure functional programming language in the spirit of Haskell
     Domain: github.com, Score: 36, Comments: 22
     On Reddit: [13] http://goo.gl/pyaB8s
     Original: [14] http://goo.gl/kJWFg

   * Switching from imperative to functional programming with games in Elm 
     (xpost from /r/programming)
     Domain: github.com, Score: 35, Comments: 11
     On Reddit: [15] http://goo.gl/CbsMhS
     Original: [16] http://goo.gl/0MpQJ0

   * FP Complete is hiring a Ruby expert Haskeller. 
     Help bring Haskell to Rubyists!
     Domain: self.haskell, Score: 34, Comments: 26
     On Reddit: [17] http://goo.gl/eb6G1s
     Original: [18] http://goo.gl/eb6G1s

   * plaimi’s introduction to Haskell for the Haskell-curious game programmer [PDF]
     Domain: secure.plaimi.net, Score: 31, Comments: 21
     On Reddit: [19] http://goo.gl/khkU80
     Original: [20] http://goo.gl/ZgRzkn

   * The F# Computation Expression Zoo 
     (Why "computation expressions" are not just an "enterprise-y monad")
     Domain: tomasp.net, Score: 31, Comments: 18
     On Reddit: [21] http://goo.gl/qnbrNx
     Original: [22] http://goo.gl/ErKmeU

   * Try PureScript
     Domain: tryps.functorial.com, Score: 30, Comments: 13
     On Reddit: [23] http://goo.gl/mOJCvG
     Original: [24] http://goo.gl/aujnyl

   * Internship at Facebook London working on Haxl
     Domain: haskell.org, Score: 30, Comments: 4
     On Reddit: [25] http://goo.gl/pHjgFp
     Original: [26] http://goo.gl/3qrzyR

   * Soostone is hiring in Turkey
     Domain: haskell.org, Score: 29, Comments: 15
     On Reddit: [27] http://goo.gl/juSJLL
     Original: [28] http://goo.gl/IpYTkJ

   * Mind-bending behavior for deserialization in Haskell
     Domain: justinleitgeb.com, Score: 25, Comments: 75
     On Reddit: [29] http://goo.gl/4BnEVn
     Original: [30] http://goo.gl/wTC06g

   * Hudak and Jones 
     - An Experiment in Software Prototyping Productivity - 1994 [PDF]
     Domain: cs.yale.edu, Score: 24, Comments: 9
     On Reddit: [31] http://goo.gl/krp66H
     Original: [32] http://goo.gl/qK6H98

   * Webcast: Designing Domain Specific Languages with Haskell 
     - Michael Snoyman - 2012-11-14
     Domain: oreillynet.com, Score: 23, Comments: 0
     On Reddit: [33] http://goo.gl/liqoge
     Original: [34] http://goo.gl/X7N0eN

   * Code review request: Wikipedia API for Haskell
     Domain: self.haskell, Score: 23, Comments: 25
     On Reddit: [35] http://goo.gl/VgPCpC
     Original: [36] http://goo.gl/VgPCpC

   * transliterate: A korean transliteration library targeting GHC, Fay, and JS
     Domain: github.com, Score: 21, Comments: 16
     On Reddit: [37] http://goo.gl/oYrL6c
     Original: [38] http://goo.gl/OAZ1z9

   * lens-family 1.0.0
     Domain: comments.gmane.org, Score: 20, Comments: 5
     On Reddit: [39] http://goo.gl/H1HFyZ
     Original: [40] http://goo.gl/oAAd6Z

   * Gershom Bazerman, NYC Haskell Meetup Organizer, 
     interviewed for your great learning
     Domain: rogueleaderr.com, Score: 20, Comments: 0
     On Reddit: [41] http://goo.gl/unTdeJ
     Original: [42] http://goo.gl/0hJ1DL

Top StackOverflow Questions

   * “Eta reduce” is not always held in Haskell?
     votes: 11, answers: 1
     Read on SO: [43] http://goo.gl/G0NZPp

   * Data Constructor promotion in GHC-7.6
     votes: 10, answers: 0
     Read on SO: [44] http://goo.gl/huK32T

   * best way to check arguments of a function in haskell
     votes: 9, answers: 1
     Read on SO: [45] http://goo.gl/Cz5VDs

   * Processing a very large text file with lazy Texts and ByteStrings
     votes: 8, answers: 1
     Read on SO: [46] http://goo.gl/eMtxDx

   * Style vs Performance Using Vectors
     votes: 8, answers: 1
     Read on SO: [47] http://goo.gl/gm9o08

   * Monad with no wrapped value?
     votes: 8, answers: 4
     Read on SO: [48] http://goo.gl/XPBwQd

   * Is it safe to reuse a conduit?
     votes: 7, answers: 1
     Read on SO: [49] http://goo.gl/QTepyV

   * Haskell Repa stencil hacks
     votes: 6, answers: 1
     Read on SO: [50] http://goo.gl/2vEqVg

   * Are Functor instances unique?
     votes: 6, answers: 1
     Read on SO: [51] http://goo.gl/EHm4yq

Until next time,
[52]+Daniel Santa Cruz

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