Welcome to issue 218 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the week of March 11 to 17, 2012. Quotes of the Week * cmccann: * cmccann needs to hurry up and get his stream processing library finished before all the possible synonyms for "thing that other things flow through" are taken * shergill: silver bullets don't respect eta equivalency. it needs to be made of silver, and not simply *act* like one :P Top Reddit Stories * Shelly: Write your shell scripts in Haskell Domain: yesodweb.com, Score: 65, Comments: 34 On Reddit: [1] http://goo.gl/lZdyV Original: [2] http://goo.gl/HHIU0 * The Glasgow Haskell Compiler (draft chapter for "The Architecture of Open Source Applications, Volume 2") Domain: community.haskell.org, Score: 53, Comments: 28 On Reddit: [3] http://goo.gl/qVoFj Original: [4] http://goo.gl/Rc42A * Announcing the Yesod Platform Domain: yesodweb.com, Score: 52, Comments: 13 On Reddit: [5] http://goo.gl/TzW0w Original: [6] http://goo.gl/z3fwC * The Cabal of my dreams Domain: blog.johantibell.com, Score: 42, Comments: 19 On Reddit: [7] http://goo.gl/VTpJu Original: [8] http://goo.gl/wrrNP * Announcing: Snap Framework v0.8 Domain: snapframework.com, Score: 39, Comments: 6 On Reddit: [9] http://goo.gl/19EyG Original: [10] http://goo.gl/USfny * Leksah 0.12 Domain: haskell.org, Score: 32, Comments: 9 On Reddit: [11] http://goo.gl/5Ft8w Original: [12] http://goo.gl/K6OEx * uncurryWith and concatenative programming Domain: self.haskell, Score: 30, Comments: 4 On Reddit: [13] http://goo.gl/dzzXH Original: [14] http://goo.gl/dzzXH * New course on parallel functional programming at Chalmers Domain: cse.chalmers.se, Score: 29, Comments: 2 On Reddit: [15] http://goo.gl/vwH6F Original: [16] http://goo.gl/zKQjh * Announcing Haskell project support on travis-ci.org Domain: about.travis-ci.org, Score: 28, Comments: 8 On Reddit: [17] http://goo.gl/uH7g3 Original: [18] http://goo.gl/KbE7I * Anyone in the Toronto area looking for a job? Domain: self.haskell, Score: 28, Comments: 22 On Reddit: [19] http://goo.gl/NHdwz Original: [20] http://goo.gl/NHdwz * Building a Concurrent Web Scraper With Haskell Domain: adit.io, Score: 26, Comments: 1 On Reddit: [21] http://goo.gl/G7QXM Original: [22] http://goo.gl/FV2LO * Using Text.Parsec.Indent to parse an indentation-sensitive language with Haskell’s Parsec library. Domain: spin.atomicobject.com, Score: 26, Comments: 7 On Reddit: [23] http://goo.gl/dXkzO Original: [24] http://goo.gl/9BFa3 * Coapplicative Functor? Domain: self.haskell, Score: 21, Comments: 37 On Reddit: [25] http://goo.gl/4eluT Original: [26] http://goo.gl/4eluT * HalVM: Easy install on Fedora 16 + 64bit support Domain: community.galois.com, Score: 21, Comments: 2 On Reddit: [27] http://goo.gl/goN4p Original: [28] http://goo.gl/6EQAu Top StackOverflow Questions * How do you represent a graph in Haskell? votes: 18, answers: 4 Read on SO: [29] http://goo.gl/t5vij * Impredicative types vs. plain old subtyping votes: 16, answers: 0 Read on SO: [30] http://goo.gl/3cmCj * Can GHC really never inline map, scanl, foldr, etc.? votes: 14, answers: 3 Read on SO: [31] http://goo.gl/se91V * Redefine IO to simplify debugging? votes: 11, answers: 1 Read on SO: [32] http://goo.gl/s62s9 * Quadratic programming in Haskell votes: 11, answers: 1 Read on SO: [33] http://goo.gl/jYWEP * How can I test a higher-order function using QuickCheck? votes: 11, answers: 2 Read on SO: [34] http://goo.gl/1YHql * Haskell: how to map a tuple? votes: 10, answers: 7 Read on SO: [35] http://goo.gl/fk7LE * Repacking monads — any generic way? votes: 9, answers: 4 Read on SO: [36] http://goo.gl/QklWI * Is there any reason not to use the INLINABLE pragma for a function? votes: 9, answers: 1 Read on SO: [37] http://goo.gl/t75CV * Repa 3 performance and correct usage of 'now' votes: 9, answers: 1 Read on SO: [38] http://goo.gl/PbyzK Until next time, Daniel Santa Cruz References 1. http://www.yesodweb.com/blog/2012/03/shelly-for-shell-scripts 2. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/qt17p/shelly_write_your_shell_scrip... 3. http://community.haskell.org/~simonmar/papers/aos.pdf 4. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/qvyup/the_glasgow_haskell_compiler_... 5. http://www.yesodweb.com/blog/2012/03/announcing-yesod-platform 6. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/qxopq/announcing_the_yesod_platform... 7. http://blog.johantibell.com/2012/03/cabal-of-my-dreams.html 8. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/qwj5j/the_cabal_of_my_dreams/ 9. http://snapframework.com/blog/2012/03/16/snap-0.8-released 10. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/qzzfe/announcing_snap_framework_v08... 11. http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2012-March/100023.html 12. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/qro91/leksah_012/ 13. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/qy8h2/uncurrywith_and_concatenative... 14. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/qy8h2/uncurrywith_and_concatenative... 15. http://www.cse.chalmers.se/edu/course/pfp/ 16. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/quc64/new_course_on_parallel_functi... 17. http://about.travis-ci.org/blog/announcing_support_for_haskell_on_travis_ci/ 18. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/qsyr5/announcing_haskell_project_su... 19. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/qw99e/anyone_in_the_toronto_area_lo... 20. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/qw99e/anyone_in_the_toronto_area_lo... 21. http://adit.io/posts/2012-03-10-building_a_concurrent_web_scraper_with_haske... 22. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/qvp1u/building_a_concurrent_web_scr... 23. http://spin.atomicobject.com/2012/03/16/using-text-parsec-indent-to-parse-an... 24. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/qzeyk/using_textparsecindent_to_par... 25. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/qsrmq/coapplicative_functor/ 26. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/qsrmq/coapplicative_functor/ 27. http://community.galois.com/pipermail/halvm-devel/2012-March/000022.html 28. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/qynuq/halvm_easy_install_on_fedora_... 29. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9732084/how-do-you-represent-a-graph-in-h... 30. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9732766/impredicative-types-vs-plain-old-... 31. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9658438/can-ghc-really-never-inline-map-s... 32. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9656734/redefine-io-to-simplify-debugging 33. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9672686/quadratic-programming-in-haskell 34. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9686665/how-can-i-test-a-higher-order-fun... 35. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9722689/haskell-how-to-map-a-tuple 36. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9684252/repacking-monads-any-generic-way 37. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9709823/is-there-any-reason-not-to-use-th... 38. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9713378/repa-3-performance-and-correct-us...