Welcome to issue 196 of the HWN, a newsletter covering developments in the Haskell community. This release covers the week of August 14 to 20, 2011. [1] http://goo.gl/8hDku New and Updated Projects * graphziz (Update - Ivan Lazar Miljenovic) Wraper around Graphviz. [2] http://goo.gl/gg30u * TKYProf (New - Mitsutoshi Aoe) A web-based interactive visualizer for GHC time and allocation profiling. [3] http://goo.gl/Inqze Quotes of the Week * accel: next time I'll read a few research papers before I start trolling hakell * jmcarthur: your opinions all suck. i'm going back to #haskell (...) oh shit, i'm already there Top Reddit Stories * Haskell For Kids: Week 1 Domain: cdsmith.wordpress.com, Score: 37, Comments: 13 On Reddit: [4] http://goo.gl/RY6li Original: [5] http://goo.gl/azAVz * New IBM CPU has transactional memory built in Domain: nextbigfuture.com, Score: 35, Comments: 4 On Reddit: [6] http://goo.gl/cbjvN Original: [7] http://goo.gl/JOpWx * [GSoC] Text/UTF-8: Aftermath Domain: jaspervdj.be, Score: 32, Comments: 7 On Reddit: [8] http://goo.gl/MTHNy Original: [9] http://goo.gl/esQNO * CamHac post-hackathon report Domain: haskell.org, Score: 31, Comments: 8 On Reddit: [10] http://goo.gl/RHpfF Original: [11] http://goo.gl/GkVaa * GHC 7.4 won't have top-level MonoPatBinds anymore! Domain: hackage.haskell.org, Score: 25, Comments: 5 On Reddit: [12] http://goo.gl/bS1VL Original: [13] http://goo.gl/SK2Tz * Ending GSoC (cabal repl) Domain: lambdasandwich.blogspot.com, Score: 25, Comments: 1 On Reddit: [14] http://goo.gl/Rrzmj Original: [15] http://goo.gl/chb8A * If one of Haskell's goals is concurrency, then why is it based on the λ-calculus and not on a process calculus? Domain: en.wikipedia.org, Score: 23, Comments: 39 On Reddit: [16] http://goo.gl/Qjcgc Original: [17] http://goo.gl/ZSwt1 * University of Reddit Class: "Fixing Imperative Programmers" Domain: reddit.com, Score: 22, Comments: 2 On Reddit: [18] http://goo.gl/1hYlf Original: [19] http://goo.gl/26Qxd * A Command Line Reddit Viewer written in Haskell : programming (xpost : /programming ) Domain: reddit.com, Score: 22, Comments: 0 On Reddit: [20] http://goo.gl/bT9q8 Original: [21] http://goo.gl/VmVfA * Web-Based Environment for Gloss (Early Alpha: READ WARNINGS!) Domain: cdsmith.wordpress.com, Score: 21, Comments: 1 On Reddit: [22] http://goo.gl/e4Tjo Original: [23] http://goo.gl/wVA9H Top StackOverflow Questions * What are practical uses of applicative style? votes: 21, answers: 9 Read on SO: [24] http://goo.gl/Ms6fs * Functional equivalent of decorator pattern? votes: 20, answers: 7 Read on SO: [25] http://goo.gl/o8FhO * Why do 3 and x (which was assigned 3) have different inferred types in Haskell? votes: 18, answers: 2 Read on SO: [26] http://goo.gl/cm9av * Haskell tuple constructor (GHC) and the separation between a language and its implementation votes: 15, answers: 1 Read on SO: [27] http://goo.gl/tFvtk * Polymorphism within higher-order functions? votes: 13, answers: 1 Read on SO: [28] http://goo.gl/hNvkE * What happens to missing type variables in Church-style core? votes: 12, answers: 2 Read on SO: [29] http://goo.gl/kb2TM * Trying to implement Data.Either votes: 12, answers: 1 Read on SO: [30] http://goo.gl/lguDh * How can I make file I/O more transactional? votes: 11, answers: 2 Read on SO: [31] http://goo.gl/BjGFV * Trying to understand the types produced by monad transformers votes: 11, answers: 2 Read on SO: [32] http://goo.gl/YHsRQ * Why doesn't Safe Haskell support Template Haskell? votes: 11, answers: 1 Read on SO: [33] http://goo.gl/E1NCS 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://haskell.org/ 2. http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/18888 3. http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/91743 4. http://cdsmith.wordpress.com/2011/08/16/haskell-for-kids-week-1/ 5. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/jlrva/haskell_for_kids_week_1/ 6. http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/08/ibm-plants-transactional-memory-in-cpu.html... 7. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/jperf/new_ibm_cpu_has_transactional... 8. http://jaspervdj.be/posts/2011-08-19-text-utf8-the-aftermath.html 9. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/jo6cd/gsoc_textutf8_aftermath/ 10. http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/CamHac/PostHackathonReport 11. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/jj5lw/camhac_posthackathon_report/ 12. http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2357#comment:11 13. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/jkeqp/ghc_74_wont_have_toplevel_mon... 14. http://lambdasandwich.blogspot.com/2011/08/ending-gsoc.html 15. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/jn8nl/ending_gsoc_cabal_repl/ 16. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_calculus 17. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/jlipx/if_one_of_haskells_goals_is_c... 18. http://www.reddit.com/r/uorfip/ 19. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/jok49/university_of_reddit_class_fi... 20. http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/jorky/a_command_line_reddit_vie... 21. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/jouql/a_command_line_reddit_viewer_... 22. http://cdsmith.wordpress.com/2011/08/14/haskell-for-kids-a-web-based-environ... 23. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/jis8g/webbased_environment_for_glos... 24. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7103864/what-are-practical-uses-of-applic... 25. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7064389/functional-equivalent-of-decorato... 26. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7055146/why-do-3-and-x-which-was-assigned... 27. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7086668/haskell-tuple-constructor-ghc-and... 28. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7061538/polymorphism-within-higher-order-... 29. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7076517/what-happens-to-missing-type-vari... 30. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7121257/trying-to-implement-data-either 31. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7059223/how-can-i-make-file-i-o-more-tran... 32. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7088085/trying-to-understand-the-types-pr... 33. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7107308/why-doesnt-safe-haskell-support-t...