Welcome to issue 192 of the HWN, a newsletter covering developments in the Haskell community. This release covers the week of July 17 to 23, 2011. [1] http://goo.gl/8hDku You can find an HTML rendition of this issue at: http://contemplatecode.blogspot.com/2011/07/haskell-weekly-news-issue-192.ht... Announcements Nicolas Wu announced the 4th edition of the Haskell Parallel Digest. The digest is made possible by the Parallel GHC Project. [2] http://goo.gl/lm5T1 Quotes of the Week * copumpkin: perhaps I should stop eating people I've never met * Saizan: agda is webscale in the sense that you need half of The Cloud to run the typechecker * kmc: my algorithm is O(1), but the constant factor grows quadratically as the problem size increases * cmccann: C++ is dual to Haskell in a sense: it's much too hard for the average programmer to use safely, but they do anyway with disastrous results; whereas Haskell isn't actually that difficult to use but people don't even try Top Reddit Stories * What Haskell Doesn't Have Domain: elaforge.blogspot.com, Score: 73, Comments: 58 On Reddit: [3] http://goo.gl/17UDu Original: [4] http://goo.gl/u4Ozy * Take the State of Haskell 2011 Survey Domain: blog.johantibell.com, Score: 55, Comments: 0 On Reddit: [5] http://goo.gl/Q7iip Original: [6] http://goo.gl/jq1Je * Economic Interpreter for Haskell Domain: pnyf.inf.elte.hu, Score: 40, Comments: 5 On Reddit: [7] http://goo.gl/BmBqf Original: [8] http://goo.gl/92mfS * Haskell on Heroku Domain: yesodweb.com, Score: 38, Comments: 5 On Reddit: [9] http://goo.gl/LYHZY Original: [10] http://goo.gl/Ly4n7 * Haskell Stickers! Domain: redbubble.com, Score: 33, Comments: 7 On Reddit: [11] http://goo.gl/WVXoH Original: [12] http://goo.gl/RpQ0f * Rewritten Agda introduction Domain: pnyf.inf.elte.hu, Score: 31, Comments: 34 On Reddit: [13] http://goo.gl/gz6TJ Original: [14] http://goo.gl/oTg5J * A plugin for GHC to turn Haskell into a strict language Domain: github.com, Score: 28, Comments: 18 On Reddit: [15] http://goo.gl/BK4os * What is the state of HackageDB 2.0? Domain: hackage.haskell.org, Score: 26, Comments: 8 On Reddit: [16] http://goo.gl/nrMTc Original: [17] http://goo.gl/tui2x * wxHaskell: The road to the Haskell Platform? Domain: sourceforge.net, Score: 26, Comments: 33 On Reddit: [18] http://goo.gl/vqfPC Original: [19] http://goo.gl/KNa16 * Just do It: Simple Monadic Equational Reasoning [pdf] Domain: cs.ox.ac.uk, Score: 24, Comments: 2 On Reddit: [20] http://goo.gl/GG0cs Original: [21] http://goo.gl/7MHGw * Cabal-dev 0.8 is out with improvements to: flag parsing, user cabal settings, cabal-dev ghci and more! Domain: github.com, Score: 24, Comments: 15 On Reddit: [22] http://goo.gl/YO6Q6 * Functors, applicative functors, monads – their relationship by example Domain: heh.fi, Score: 23, Comments: 0 On Reddit: [23] http://goo.gl/bkJ4Y Original: [24] http://goo.gl/bf6zo * Snap 0.5.2 released Domain: snapframework.com, Score: 23, Comments: 0 On Reddit: [25] http://goo.gl/0RCh3 Original: [26] http://goo.gl/jeFU5 Top StackOverflow Questions * Help in understanding pointfree code votes: 14, answers: 1 Read on SO: [27] http://goo.gl/Ryy5c * How can I combine Handles in Haskell? votes: 12, answers: 2 Read on SO: [28] http://goo.gl/25W4E * Current state of integrating unit tests with Haskell's Cabal? votes: 9, answers: 1 Read on SO: [29] http://goo.gl/nm8Zc * Does iteratee I/O make sense in non-functional languages? votes: 9, answers: 2 Read on SO: [30] http://goo.gl/f8YhP * Literate Haskell: References And Indexing votes: 8, answers: 1 Read on SO: [31] http://goo.gl/QYPBK * Call C Functions from Haskell at runtime votes: 7, answers: 1 Read on SO: [32] http://goo.gl/oj0R7 * Type-class instances for types with 2 parameters when the type-class has only one votes: 7, answers: 2 Read on SO: [33] http://goo.gl/JmxBr * List of options: equivalent of sequence in Scala? votes: 7, answers: 4 Read on SO: [34] http://goo.gl/MnZg8 * Is it necessary to specify every superclass in a class context of a class declaration? votes: 7, answers: 1 Read on SO: [35] http://goo.gl/OxoSN * Partial decoding of ByteStrings to Text votes: 7, answers: 1 Read on SO: [36] http://goo.gl/9JSKw * Haskell, algorithms and school votes: 7, answers: 1 Read on SO: [37] http://goo.gl/bsM5v 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.parallel/14 3. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/iuhc0/what_haskell_doesnt_have/ 4. http://elaforge.blogspot.com/2011/07/what-haskell-doesnt-have.html 5. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/irxtf/take_the_state_of_haskell_201... 6. http://blog.johantibell.com/2011/07/its-time-for-this-years-state-of.html 7. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/iuswk/economic_interpreter_for_hask... 8. http://pnyf.inf.elte.hu/fp/Economic_en.xml?yes 9. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/iuoun/haskell_on_heroku/ 10. http://www.yesodweb.com/blog/2011/07/haskell-on-heroku 11. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/iwm3r/haskell_stickers/ 12. http://www.redbubble.com/products/configure/6390818-sticker 13. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/itkii/rewritten_agda_introduction/ 14. http://pnyf.inf.elte.hu/fp/Overview_en.xml?fuckyoureddit#agda 15. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/iur1n/a_plugin_for_ghc_to_turn_hask... 16. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/isqmc/what_is_the_state_of_hackaged... 17. http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/wiki/HackageDB/2.0 18. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/itwl5/wxhaskell_the_road_to_the_has... 19. http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=alpine.DEB.2.00.1106202127060.32496%40anubis.informatik.uni-halle.de&forum_name=wxhaskell-devel 20. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/it13r/just_do_it_simple_monadic_equ... 21. http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/jeremy.gibbons/publications/mr.pdf 22. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/it50b/cabaldev_08_is_out_with_impro... 23. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/it3lh/functors_applicative_functors... 24. http://heh.fi/haskell/functors/ 25. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/iv6g3/snap_052_released/ 26. http://snapframework.com/blog/2011/07/20/snap-0.5.2-released 27. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6797247/help-in-understanding-pointfree-c... 28. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6736790/how-can-i-combine-handles-in-hask... 29. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6787231/current-state-of-integrating-unit... 30. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6795384/does-iteratee-i-o-make-sense-in-n... 31. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6736482/literate-haskell-references-and-i... 32. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6740850/call-c-functions-from-haskell-at-... 33. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6747083/type-class-instances-for-types-wi... 34. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6750609/list-of-options-equivalent-of-seq... 35. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6782389/is-it-necessary-to-specify-every-... 36. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6786328/partial-decoding-of-bytestrings-t... 37. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6797216/haskell-algorithms-and-school