Welcome to issue 165 of the HWN, a newsletter covering developments in the [1]Haskell community. This release covers the week of January 9 to 15, 2011. Announcements Brent Yorgey [2]announced the release of issue 17 of The Monad.Reader, containing the following three articles: List Leads Off with the Letter Lambda by Douglas M. Auclair, The InterleaveT Abstraction: Alternative with Flexible Ordering by Neil Brown, and The Reader Monad and Abstraction Elimination by Petr Pudlak. Andy Stewart [3]sent an invite to anyone interested in joining the Manatee team. Manatee is a Haskell integrated environment written in Haskell. Follow the link to see some videos posted for a better idea of what the tool is. Niklas Broberg [4]announced the release of version 1.10.1 of haskell-src-extensions. Huibiao Zhu [5]sent a call for papers to the 13th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods to be held in Durham, UK on October 25-28 2011. Read on to see what was hot in the Haskell community around the net... Quotes of the Week * ion: ddarius: Yeah, abstract concepts absolutely hate being anthropomorphized. * gwern: there are no beginnings or ends to the circular list; but a cons cell thunked in Amador... * tac-tics: If you wish to create the universe from scratch, you must first invent the continuation. * sproingie: hm. Â i can't remember how to use @remember * NOTE: Just say @remember :) I'm grepping the logs to find these things * Kaidelong: <Kaidelong> take 6 "bananas" <lambdabot> "banana" <Kaidelong> clearly lambdabot is keeping the bananas to itself and lying about it * hpc: functor and applicative are easy, since you can remember them as "those things what look like function application, sort of" Top Reddit Stories * RFC: migrating GHC development to git Domain: haskell.org, Score: 51, Comments: 66 On Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/ezgvs/rfc_migrating_ghc_development... Original: http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/glasgow-haskell-users/2011-January/019752.h... * [CCC] On how Haskell’s Arrows are NOT just function compositions with a fancier name Domain: ro-che.info, Score: 38, Comments: 4 On Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/f3e06/ccc_on_how_haskells_arrows_ar... Original: http://ro-che.info/ccc/12.html * foldl vs foldl', and why you should always use the latter Domain: reddit.com, Score: 35, Comments: 8 On Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/f25iv/foldl_vs_foldl_and_why_you_sh... Original: http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/f150x/whats_wrong_with_my_haskell_n... * ~Haskell 2011 Domain: haskell.org, Score: 32, Comments: 5 On Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/ezmzh/haskell_2011/ Original: http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell/2011-January/022497.html * The Monad.Reader: Issue 17 Domain: themonadreader.wordpress.com, Score: 30, Comments: 10 On Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/ezft9/the_monadreader_issue_17/ Original: http://themonadreader.wordpress.com/2011/01/09/issue-17/ * Painless NP-complete problems: an embedded DSL for SMT solving Domain: donsbot.wordpress.com, Score: 27, Comments: 2 On Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/f3fp6/painless_npcomplete_problems_... Original: http://donsbot.wordpress.com/2011/01/16/painless-np-complete-problems-an-emb... * Oregon Programming Languages Summer School: Types, Semantics, and Verification Domain: lists.seas.upenn.edu, Score: 22, Comments: 20 On Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/f15rm/oregon_programming_languages_... Original: http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/pipermail/types-announce/2011/002241.html * Announcing Web Application Interface 0.3.0 (now with more speed) Domain: docs.yesodweb.com, Score: 20, Comments: 2 On Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/f0e6f/announcing_web_application_in... Original: http://docs.yesodweb.com/blog/announcing-wai-0-3/ * A bran new functional programming (Haskell inter alia) jobs site (corrected link) Domain: functionaljobs.com, Score: 19, Comments: 11 On Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/ezqst/a_bran_new_functional_program... Original: http://functionaljobs.com/ * [PDF] Orthogonal Serialization For Haskell Domain: mathematik.uni-marburg.de, Score: 17, Comments: 3 On Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/f1o8t/pdf_orthogonal_serialization_... Original: http://www.mathematik.uni-marburg.de/~berthold/papers/mainIFL10-withCopyrigh... Top StackOverflow Questions * Monads as adjunctions votes: 15, answers: 3 Read on SO: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4697320/monads-as-adjunctions * What is a VM and why do dynamic languages need one? votes: 11, answers: 8 Read on SO: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4640809/what-is-a-vm-and-why-do-dynamic-l... * Is Haskell a Lisp? votes: 9, answers: 5 Read on SO: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4696618/is-haskell-a-lisp * Are there any connections between Haskell and LINQ? votes: 8, answers: 4 Read on SO: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4683506/are-there-any-connections-between... * Haskell newbie on types votes: 7, answers: 4 Read on SO: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4664429/haskell-newbie-on-types * I can't seem to figure out type variables mixed with classes. votes: 5, answers: 2 Read on SO: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4653102/i-cant-seem-to-figure-out-type-va... * Emacs align-regexp on = but not == votes: 5, answers: 1 Read on SO: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4653575/emacs-align-regexp-on-but-not * Current status of automatic parallelism in Haskell [closed] votes: 5, answers: 3 Read on SO: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4701207/current-status-of-automatic-paral... About the Haskell Weekly News You can find an html version of this newsletter at: http://contemplatecode.blogspot.com/2011/01/haskell-weekly-news-issue-165.ht... To help create new editions of this newsletter, please send stories to dstcruz@gmail.com. I'm in dire need of finding good "quotes of the week". If you happen to come across any, please don't hesitate to send it along. Until next time, Daniel Santa Cruz References 1. http://haskell.org/ 2. http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/18419 3. http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/85224 4. http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/18427 5. http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/18428