Welcome to issue 296 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers from May 25 to June 7, 2014 Quotes of the Week * mbrock: then you get into a whole thing about the epistemology of abstract algebra, and someone brings up Wittgenstein, somebody brings out a bottle of wine, and it's yet another one of those nights Top Reddit Stories * An alternative Haskell home page Domain: chrisdone.com, Score: 160, Comments: 57 Original: [1] http://goo.gl/Yw2G3a On Reddit: [2] http://goo.gl/m19Ujx * Third generation of the attoparsec parsing library Domain: serpentine.com, Score: 82, Comments: 22 Original: [3] http://goo.gl/kk8i50 On Reddit: [4] http://goo.gl/LZzevb * Music-Suite Domain: music-suite.github.io, Score: 81, Comments: 44 Original: [5] http://goo.gl/u69ybm On Reddit: [6] http://goo.gl/EYKMwI * Erik Meijer: Introduction to Functional Programming Domain: edx.org, Score: 79, Comments: 11 Original: [7] http://goo.gl/YrfbA3 On Reddit: [8] http://goo.gl/oLRm6k * The abject failure of weak typing Domain: techblog.realestate.com.au, Score: 72, Comments: 28 Original: [9] http://goo.gl/h5XDVZ On Reddit: [10] http://goo.gl/nfnLNN * Lazy Dynamic Programming Domain: jelv.is, Score: 64, Comments: 12 Original: [11] http://goo.gl/kdSbkh On Reddit: [12] http://goo.gl/I6XVa8 * First Person 3D Navigation, written in Elm Domain: github.com, Score: 62, Comments: 0 Original: [13] http://goo.gl/qLM3FD On Reddit: [14] http://goo.gl/CRNW6M * Haskell Platform Redesign Domain: self.haskell, Score: 57, Comments: 39 Original: [15] http://goo.gl/A2OqV4 On Reddit: [16] http://goo.gl/A2OqV4 * Benjamin Pierce on clean-slate security architectures Domain: intelligence.org, Score: 54, Comments: 2 Original: [17] http://goo.gl/dCWGlr On Reddit: [18] http://goo.gl/ns7SF6 * Idris 0.9.13 released, featuring a new erasure implementation, Haddock- and Hoogle-inspired tools, and improved IDE support Domain: idris-lang.org, Score: 53, Comments: 6 Original: [19] http://goo.gl/rf9i2U On Reddit: [20] http://goo.gl/tByoYR * Brilliant explanation of Free Monad + Interpreter pattern. Domain: programmers.stackexchange.com, Score: 52, Comments: 16 Original: [21] http://goo.gl/5wVfG1 On Reddit: [22] http://goo.gl/bCb0tD * I got lenses in my Functor Domain: izbicki.me, Score: 52, Comments: 35 Original: [23] http://goo.gl/9xAo4g On Reddit: [24] http://goo.gl/kZBcK8 * The GHC Runtime System [pdf] Domain: scs.stanford.edu, Score: 50, Comments: 15 Original: [25] http://goo.gl/J2iH4W On Reddit: [26] http://goo.gl/B2AiSo * The typeparams library provides a lens-like interface for type level parameters; it allows unboxing unboxed vectors (with benchmarks indicating a 25% performance gain) and supercompilation-like optimizations (with benchmarks showing 40x performance gain in some cases) Domain: github.com, Score: 49, Comments: 14 Original: [27] http://goo.gl/jzIn2E On Reddit: [28] http://goo.gl/fdiRHU * LiquidHaskell: Pointers Gone Wild Domain: goto.ucsd.edu, Score: 48, Comments: 16 Original: [29] http://goo.gl/aKyRnQ On Reddit: [30] http://goo.gl/pexvtf * Sed implementation in Haskell - Episode 6 [youtube] Domain: youtube.com, Score: 45, Comments: 5 Original: [31] http://goo.gl/JQ2ONf On Reddit: [32] http://goo.gl/vLQWVJ * Call Arity [pdf]: A new analysis implemented in GHC Domain: joachim-breitner.de, Score: 44, Comments: 6 Original: [33] http://goo.gl/BdEFfs On Reddit: [34] http://goo.gl/OSv5Rb Top StackOverflow Questions * Understanding Haskell's Bool Deriving an Ord votes: 17, answers: 2 Read on SO: [35] http://goo.gl/7W9WRb * Precise flow control in Haskell votes: 14, answers: 0 Read on SO: [36] http://goo.gl/uoA9i1 * Why aren't there existentially quantified type variables in GHC Haskell votes: 14, answers: 2 Read on SO: [37] http://goo.gl/ZeBJTK * Is the concept of an “interleaved homomorphism” a real thing? votes: 14, answers: 3 Read on SO: [38] http://goo.gl/gpIH6b * Is it possible to get `-=` working with literals? votes: 12, answers: 1 Read on SO: [39] http://goo.gl/R40i7q * How much overhead does sparking incur? votes: 11, answers: 1 Read on SO: [40] http://goo.gl/ixWkKL Until next time, [41]+Daniel Santa Cruz References 1. http://chrisdone.com/posts/haskell-lang 2. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/26rilp/an_alternative_haskell_home_... 3. http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2014/05/31/attoparsec/ 4. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/26xyah/third_generation_of_the_atto... 5. http://music-suite.github.io/docs/ref/ 6. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/27djwy/musicsuite/ 7. https://www.edx.org/course/delftx/delftx-fp101x-introduction-functional-2126 8. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/27bnt7/erik_meijer_introduction_to_... 9. http://techblog.realestate.com.au/the-abject-failure-of-weak-typing/ 10. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/26pi5b/the_abject_failure_of_weak_t... 11. http://jelv.is/blog/Lazy-Dynamic-Programming 12. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/26jh2w/lazy_dynamic_programming/ 13. https://github.com/evancz/first-person-elm#first-person-3d-navigation-in-elm 14. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/26mjak/first_person_3d_navigation_w... 15. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/26g9y8/haskell_platform_redesign/ 16. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/26g9y8/haskell_platform_redesign/ 17. http://intelligence.org/2014/05/11/benjamin-pierce/ 18. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/274k69/benjamin_pierce_on_cleanslat... 19. http://www.idris-lang.org/idris-0-9-13-released/ 20. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/279wl7/idris_0913_released_featurin... 21. http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/242795/what-is-the-free-monad... 22. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2788cw/brilliant_explanation_of_fre... 23. http://izbicki.me/blog/i-got-lenses-in-my-functors 24. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/27h0wk/i_got_lenses_in_my_functor/ 25. http://www.scs.stanford.edu/14sp-cs240h/slides/ghc-rts.pdf 26. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/26qshw/the_ghc_runtime_system_pdf/ 27. https://github.com/mikeizbicki/typeparams#the-typeparams-library 28. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/27avw8/the_typeparams_library_provi... 29. http://goto.ucsd.edu/~rjhala/liquid/haskell/blog/blog/2014/05/28/pointers-go... 30. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/26redl/liquidhaskell_pointers_gone_... 31. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKRjVITL_oA 32. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/26th92/sed_implementation_in_haskel... 33. http://www.joachim-breitner.de/publications/CallArity-TFP.pdf 34. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/26fdxq/call_arity_pdf_a_new_analysi... 35. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23880626/understanding-haskells-bool-deri... 36. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23869547/precise-flow-control-in-haskell 37. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23940487/why-arent-there-existentially-qu... 38. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24090758/is-the-concept-of-an-interleaved... 39. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23875471/is-it-possible-to-get-working-wi... 40. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23877737/how-much-overhead-does-sparking-... 41. https://plus.google.com/105107667630152149014/about