--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haskell Weekly News http://sequence.complete.org/hwn/20100117 Issue 146 - January 17, 2010 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to issue 146 of HWN, a newsletter covering developments in the [1]Haskell community. This has been a pretty light week in terms of discussion and announcments, but even in this comparative news lull we have the release of several new versions of packages. Inlcluding the start of a new IDE, some new job and graduate program openings, and some really excellent blog noise. Until next week, Haskellers, your Haskell Weekly News. Announcements haskell-src-exts 1.7.0. Niklas Broberg [2]announced a new release of haskell-src-exts Lite Haskell IDE. Mambo Banda [3]announced a new Haskell IDE, as part of his effort to learn Haskell. Functional Programming Bibliography. James Russell [4]announced the Functional Programming Bibliography, a new resource for the FP community. It, though in it's early stages, contains oer 1500 references (most of which are Haskell-related) to resources within the Functional Programming World. hakyll-1.0. Jasper Van der Jeugt [5]announced the release of version 1.0 of his static site generation tool, hakyll. From all (one) of us at the HWN, contragulations on the big 1.0! afv-0.0.0. Tom Hawkins [6]announced the initial release of 'Atom's Formal Verifier', a tool for verifying C code generated by Atom chp-2.0.0, chp-plus-1.0.0. Neil Brown [7]announced released new versions of his Comminicating Haskell Processes (CHP) packages. CHP is a message-passing concurrency library for Haskell. The major change in this version is a split of CHP into two packages, one containing core functionality, and one containing additional capabilities. Update for type-level library (0.2.4). Seyed Hosein Attarzadeh Niaki [8]announced a new version of his type-level library for type-level programming. This is a minor update to fix compatibility issues with dependencies. Two PhD positions in theoretical computer science. Alexandra Silva [9]announced vacancies for PhD positions in theoretical computer science at Leiden University. HaXml-1.20.1. Malcolm Wallace [10]announced a new, stable release of HaXml AST 2010 reminder--call for papers and presentations. John Hughes [11]reminded us of the AST 2010 call for papers and presentations. The submission deadline is only one week away. Job at Mylife. Julien Verlaguet [12]announced an availabiity for an OCaml developer at MyLife. Open Position (PhD student or Postdoc), U Tubingen, Germany. Torsten Grust [13]announced an open PhD/Postdoc position at the University of Tubingen in Germany. (ED: Apologies for the improper 'u' -- it should have an umlaut, but the compilation software is not cooperating) Palindromes 0.2. Johan Jeuring [14]announced a new release of the Palindromes package, including many new features and upgrades. Discussion From records to a type class. Taru Karttunen [15]asked about turning records into type classes, in an effort to make his bindings for Fuse more elegant. AlternativePrelude extension. Sjur Gjostein Karevoll [16]suggested a language pragma for alternative preludes. (ED: Again, apologies for the look-alike, but improper character). Blog noise [17]Haskell news from the [18]blogosphere. Blog posts from people new to the Haskell community are marked with >>>, be sure to welcome them! * Holumbus: [19]Linking Hayoo! Search Results. * Jeff Heard: [20]SPDE, Semi-functional programming for Processing. * Neil Mitchell: [21]Using .ghci files to run projects. * Neil Mitchell: [22]Better .ghci files. * Neil Brown: [23]Darcs. * Neil Brown: [24]Splitting CHP. * Darcs: [25]darcs weekly news #50. * Bryan O'Sullivan: [26]Progress on GHC's I/O manager. * Michael Snoyman: [27]New blog address. * Conal Elliot: [28]Exact Numeric Integration. I had missed this one last week (amidst the myriad, I failed to see it), so it is presented in this week's edition. Quotes of the Week * Jafet: <gwern> closures are a poor man's object <ddarius> objects are a poor man's closure <Berengal> objects are a rich man's structs <Jafet> Poor programmers should start unions * monochrom: Time flies like an Arrow. Space leaks like a Monad. * monochrom: Haskell already has natural language support. Just switch your natural language to simple-typed lambda calculus. * edwardk: @remember Baugn @remember lambdabot fasta says: I think the @remember command is way overused. * Berengal: data Neither a b = Left | Right * Cale: Removing monad comprehensions was actually the snowball which caused the avalanche of fail in Haskell 98 About the Haskell Weekly News New editions are posted to [29]the Haskell mailing list as well as to [30]the Haskell Sequence and [31]Planet Haskell. [32]RSS is also available, and headlines appear on [33]haskell.org. To help create new editions of this newsletter, please see the information on [34]how to contribute. Send stories to jfredett . at . gmail . dot . com. The darcs repository is available at darcs get [35]http://patch-tag.com/r/jfredett/HWN2/pullrepo HWN2 . 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