The Monad.Reader (11) - Call for Copy

Call for Copy The Monad.Reader - Issue 11 Please consider writing something for the next issue of The Monad.Reader. The deadline for Issue 11 is ** August 1, 2008 ** It doesn't matter if you're a respected researcher or if you have only just started learning Haskell, get your thoughts together and write an article for The Monad.Reader! The Monad.Reader is a electronic magazine about all things Haskell. It is less formal than journal, but more enduring than a wiki-page or blog. There have been a wide variety of articles, including: exciting code fragments, intriguing puzzles, book reviews, tutorials, and even half-baked research ideas. * Submission Details * Get in touch with me if you intend to submit something -- the sooner you let me know what you're up to, the better. Please submit articles for the next issue to me by e-mail (wss at cs.nott.ac.uk). Articles should be written according to the guidelines available from http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/The_Monad.Reader Please submit your article in PDF, together with any source files you used. The sources will be released together with the magazine under a BSD license. If you would like to submit an article, but have trouble with LaTeX please let me know and we'll sort something out. All the best, Wouter This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses, which could damage your computer system: you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation.

Wouter Swierstra wrote:
Please consider writing something for the next issue of The Monad.Reader.
You know, I'm actually tempted to do just that...
It doesn't matter if you're a respected researcher or if you have only just started learning Haskell, get your thoughts together and write an article for The Monad.Reader!
It probably *does* matter, however, that I don't have anything interesting to say. :-( Ah well.

On 7 May 2008, at 19:56, Andrew Coppin wrote:
Wouter Swierstra wrote:
Please consider writing something for the next issue of The Monad.Reader.
You know, I'm actually tempted to do just that...
Please do! We've had lots of excellent articles written by people who were just learning Haskell. Sometimes a beginner's perspective can be quite refreshing. Feel free to contact me personally if you have any questions. All the best, Wouter This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses, which could damage your computer system: you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation.

Wouter Swierstra wrote:
On 7 May 2008, at 19:56, Andrew Coppin wrote:
Wouter Swierstra wrote:
Please consider writing something for the next issue of The Monad.Reader.
You know, I'm actually tempted to do just that...
Please do! We've had lots of excellent articles written by people who were just learning Haskell. Sometimes a beginner's perspective can be quite refreshing. Feel free to contact me personally if you have any questions.
Without reading through every issue ever published, do you have any specific examples of this that I [or anybody else in cafe] could take a look at?

Without reading through every issue ever published, do you have any specific examples of this that I [or anybody else in cafe] could take a look at?
The following two articles spring to mind: * Kenneth Hoste wrote a gtk2hs tutorial, after having just started using it: http://www.haskell.org/sitewiki/images/9/9d/TMR-Issue1.pdf * Graham Klyne wrote some notes on learning Haskell: http://www.haskell.org/tmrwiki/LearningHaskellNotes Best, Wouter

andrewcoppin:
Wouter Swierstra wrote:
On 7 May 2008, at 19:56, Andrew Coppin wrote:
Wouter Swierstra wrote:
Please consider writing something for the next issue of The Monad.Reader.
You know, I'm actually tempted to do just that...
Please do! We've had lots of excellent articles written by people who were just learning Haskell. Sometimes a beginner's perspective can be quite refreshing. Feel free to contact me personally if you have any questions.
Without reading through every issue ever published, do you have any specific examples of this that I [or anybody else in cafe] could take a look at?
You should read through every issue ever published though -- there's a lot of interesting lessons in TMR for the practical Haskeller. -- Don

Don Stewart wrote:
You should read through every issue ever published though -- there's a lot of interesting lessons in TMR for the practical Haskeller.
That would be entertaining sometime, but how many issues have ac... oh, wait... this is issue 11? Hmm, I hadn't realised that this publication was this new. I was thinking there were several hundred prior issues to wade through or something! :-.

Speaking of old Monad.Reader issues... the wiki says,
"Issues 2 through 5 http://www.haskell.org/tmrwiki/ can be found on the
special tmrwiki – they haven't been included here for licensing reasons. I
hope to move over most of the content soon."
Any chance of those issues being moved over still? I'd prefer to read the
older issues in pdf format, like the new issues.
Thank you!
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Donnie Jones
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Andrew Coppin
Don Stewart wrote:
You should read through every issue ever published though -- there's a lot of interesting lessons in TMR for the practical Haskeller.
That would be entertaining sometime, but how many issues have ac... oh, wait... this is issue 11? Hmm, I hadn't realised that this publication was this new. I was thinking there were several hundred prior issues to wade through or something! :-.
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Hi Donnie,
Any chance of those issues being moved over still? I'd prefer to read the older issues in pdf format, like the new issues.
I have gotten permission from (almost) all the authors to move the content to the new wiki. I've started reformatting everything to the MediaWiki format - for example: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/The_Monad.Reader/Issue2 Unfortunately, progress is pretty slow. The automated tools to convert between MoinMoin and MediaWiki are pretty crummy; reformatting by hand is a fair amount of boring work; I'm writing up my thesis at the moment, so it's not very high on my list of things to do, I'm afraid. If you, or anyone else, would like to help out it would be much appreciated! It's just too much work for me to do by myself. All the best, Wouter

On 2008 May 9, at 2:51, Wouter Swierstra wrote:
Any chance of those issues being moved over still? I'd prefer to read the older issues in pdf format, like the new issues.
I have gotten permission from (almost) all the authors to move the content to the new wiki. I've started reformatting everything to the MediaWiki format - for example:
Put them up as is, let people with haskellwiki accounts reformat them? -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH

Put them up as is, let people with haskellwiki accounts reformat them?
Good idea. All the old content is now available, although some articles do look fairly horrendous: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/The_Monad.Reader/Issue2 http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/The_Monad.Reader/Issue3 http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/The_Monad.Reader/Issue4 http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/The_Monad.Reader/Issue5 If anyone feels inclined to help reformat them, I'd really appreciate it! Wouter This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses, which could damage your computer system: you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation.
participants (6)
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Andrew Coppin
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Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
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Don Stewart
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Donnie Jones
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Wouter Swierstra
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Wouter Swierstra