Welcome to issue 180 of the HWN, a newsletter covering developments in the Haskell community. This release covers the week of May 8 to 14, 2011. Announcements Eric Kow released the second edition of Parallel Haskell Digest [http://goo.gl/OXGIw]. Don Stewart sent in a proposal from the Haskell.org committee to incorporate Haskell.org [http://goo.gl/X1j8i]. Lazycat Manatee has released a new version of Manatee [http://goo.gl/vVTgy]. Quotes of the Week * Richard O'Keefe: [On iterators and generators] This being Haskell, I'm expecting to see Cogenerator... * luqui: Haskell is a DSL for writing monad tutorials. * mattmight: Coq is a tool for turning ordinary programs into POPL papers. * kmc: most CS courses will teach you four kinds of Java * geheimdienst: haskell makes hard things easy and easy things a strong lax monoidal endofunctor ... * spoolio: Haskell programmers know the cost of nothing, the type of everything, and might know the value of a few things later. * catamorphism: FP is related to FP in the same way that UML is related to OOP. * geheimdienst: * geheimdienst will from now on use a function carpeTiem aliased to getCurrentTime * edwardk: [on data-accessor] However, its choice of internal representation makes me throw up in my mouth a little bit Top Reddit Stories * Fancy function graphs! Domain: pnyf.inf.elte.hu, Score: 47, Comments: 21 On Reddit: http://goo.gl/ibZO1 Original: http://goo.gl/24hQ6 * Online SVG figures with Haskell Domain: self.haskell, Score: 46, Comments: 11 On Reddit: http://goo.gl/jgxk4 * Erlang-in-Haskell: an implementation of an Erlang-like distributed computing framework for Haskell Domain: hackage.haskell.org, Score: 41, Comments: 2 On Reddit: http://goo.gl/yMMRG Original: http://goo.gl/eq6s3 * Why Eager Languages Don't Have Products and Lazy Languages Don't Have Sums Domain: james-iry.blogspot.com, Score: 38, Comments: 35 On Reddit: http://goo.gl/ngpNe Original: http://goo.gl/2O6yq * Introducing JsonGrammar Domain: martijn.van.steenbergen.nl, Score: 34, Comments: 2 On Reddit: http://goo.gl/wiGI9 Original: http://goo.gl/ns20k * The reasons I don't write all my code in Haskell Domain: codeflow.wordpress.com, Score: 33, Comments: 34 On Reddit: http://goo.gl/HMZ8c Original: http://goo.gl/hyuSa * Experimental GHC with GHCJS built in and Cabal support for JavaScript files Domain: article.gmane.org, Score: 30, Comments: 3 On Reddit: http://goo.gl/8zzZT Original: http://goo.gl/MQMvN * Two fun bits of Haskell teaching news Domain: serpentine.com.nyud.net, Score: 28, Comments: 3 On Reddit: http://goo.gl/JQUtF Original: http://goo.gl/mYz1q * Themes on Streams Domain: byorgey.wordpress.com, Score: 26, Comments: 1 On Reddit: http://goo.gl/ywP1K Original: http://goo.gl/ywPnl * CmdArgs - Fighting the GHC Optimiser Domain: neilmitchell.blogspot.com, Score: 20, Comments: 15 On Reddit: http://goo.gl/0WThF Original: http://goo.gl/CgCgz Top StackOverflow Questions * Safe execution of untrusted Haskell code votes: 19, answers: 2 http://goo.gl/9eHuc * When do I use ByteString and when do I not? votes: 16, answers: 2 http://goo.gl/vVQig * Why can I not make String an instance of a typeclass? votes: 14, answers: 3 http://goo.gl/Pn8DS * Android application in haskell votes: 11, answers: 1 http://goo.gl/UfnA1 * What are the most important abstractions in Haskell? Monads? Applicatives? votes: 9, answers: 3 http://goo.gl/RaXVQ 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