Welcome to issue 312 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers from October 26 to November 15, 2014 Quotes of the Week * barsoap: There's no place for half measures in overkill. Top Reddit Stories * Category Theory for Programmers: The Preface Domain: bartoszmilewski.com, Score: 141, Comments: 68 Original: [1] http://goo.gl/nTaVM5 On Reddit: [2] http://goo.gl/9cnWqN * Idris 0.9.15 released: partial evaluator, uniqueness types, library cleanups, and fancier docs. Domain: idris-lang.org, Score: 111, Comments: 55 Original: [3] http://goo.gl/nL9Ptr On Reddit: [4] http://goo.gl/mkHVEl * HaskForce - The Haskell Plugin for IntelliJ IDEA Domain: carymrobbins.github.io, Score: 104, Comments: 34 Original: [5] http://goo.gl/Oa0jBA On Reddit: [6] http://goo.gl/W2jrFW * Haskell for all: How to desugar Haskell code Domain: haskellforall.com, Score: 97, Comments: 50 Original: [7] http://goo.gl/1ZfiyP On Reddit: [8] http://goo.gl/hK3xTo * Functional programming and condescension Domain: superginbaby.wordpress.com, Score: 87, Comments: 147 Original: [9] http://goo.gl/erVkNx On Reddit: [10] http://goo.gl/ncQcxX * Quick Reminder to be Courteous Domain: self.haskell, Score: 85, Comments: 39 Original: [11] http://goo.gl/pmEODB On Reddit: [12] http://goo.gl/pmEODB * Category Theory Applied to Functional Programming Domain: eafit.edu.co, Score: 84, Comments: 14 Original: [13] http://goo.gl/ax59vm On Reddit: [14] http://goo.gl/xZYksD * New Book - Game Programming in Haskell Domain: leanpub.com, Score: 84, Comments: 31 Original: [15] http://goo.gl/hAqaaU On Reddit: [16] http://goo.gl/XePpcJ * "hasql" is up to 2x and 7x faster than "postgresql-simple" and "HDBC" Domain: nikita-volkov.github.io, Score: 72, Comments: 22 Original: [17] http://goo.gl/YwU4OQ On Reddit: [18] http://goo.gl/fnfFAC * Typing Haskell in Haskell (markdownified with syntax highlighting and updated links) Domain: gist.github.com, Score: 68, Comments: 3 Original: [19] http://goo.gl/U6Jnvr On Reddit: [20] http://goo.gl/QeLcak * Using Haskell at Work Domain: self.haskell, Score: 66, Comments: 66 Original: [21] http://goo.gl/265kRm On Reddit: [22] http://goo.gl/265kRm * Category: The Essence of Composition (First section of the Category Theory for Programmers) Domain: bartoszmilewski.com, Score: 60, Comments: 37 Original: [23] http://goo.gl/pdwr4X On Reddit: [24] http://goo.gl/AtYhI3 * PureScript 0.6 released, plus new website Domain: github.com, Score: 55, Comments: 23 Original: [25] http://goo.gl/TSuiEM On Reddit: [26] http://goo.gl/ZRBCHz * Tomatoes are a subtype of vegetables Domain: blog.ezyang.com, Score: 53, Comments: 58 Original: [27] http://goo.gl/1evzHU On Reddit: [28] http://goo.gl/qiiwSS * The Guts of a Spineless Machine Domain: jozefg.bitbucket.org, Score: 49, Comments: 11 Original: [29] http://goo.gl/KxW1iq On Reddit: [30] http://goo.gl/CNQbwk * A Large Scale Study of Programming Languages and Code Quality in Github Domain: macbeth.cs.ucdavis.edu, Score: 47, Comments: 48 Original: [31] http://goo.gl/TEoSBV On Reddit: [32] http://goo.gl/18UfCM * ghci-ng - GHCi plus extra goodies Domain: github.com, Score: 45, Comments: 14 Original: [33] http://goo.gl/g6VMiK On Reddit: [34] http://goo.gl/5Mg7n8 Top StackOverflow Questions * Haskell's type checker is allowing a very wrong type replacement, and the program still compiles votes: 68, answers: 2 Read on SO: [35] http://goo.gl/ikcCmv * Subsumption in polymorphic types votes: 29, answers: 1 Read on SO: [36] http://goo.gl/clKuju * Rewriting as a practical optimization technique in GHC: Is it really needed? votes: 23, answers: 3 Read on SO: [37] http://goo.gl/MNNuhW * Is there an unsigned integer type that will warn about negative literals? votes: 21, answers: 1 Read on SO: [38] http://goo.gl/SmRO3t * How can I make GHCI release memory votes: 19, answers: 1 Read on SO: [39] http://goo.gl/U3qroZ * How much of Pascal's triangle does this evaluate? votes: 15, answers: 1 Read on SO: [40] http://goo.gl/PsaQ3X * Why is super-compilation not implemented more prevalent? votes: 14, answers: 3 Read on SO: [41] http://goo.gl/MFNsrE Until next time, [42]+Daniel Santa Cruz References 1. http://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/10/28/category-theory-for-programmers-the-pr... 2. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2kkrd3/category_theory_for_programm... 3. http://www.idris-lang.org/idris-0-9-15-released/ 4. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2kfosg/idris_0915_released_partial_... 5. http://carymrobbins.github.io/intellij-haskforce/ 6. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2kvzuz/haskforce_the_haskell_plugin... 7. http://www.haskellforall.com/2014/10/how-to-desugar-haskell-code.html 8. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2kf61f/haskell_for_all_how_to_desug... 9. http://superginbaby.wordpress.com/2014/10/28/suddenly-the-opposite-appeared/ 10. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2klj3b/functional_programming_and_c... 11. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2lfofw/quick_reminder_to_be_courteo... 12. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2lfofw/quick_reminder_to_be_courteo... 13. http://www1.eafit.edu.co/asicard/pubs/cain-screen.pdf 14. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2kowzu/category_theory_applied_to_f... 15. https://leanpub.com/gameinhaskell 16. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2m253y/new_book_game_programming_in... 17. http://nikita-volkov.github.io/hasql-benchmarks/ 18. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2lwx9y/hasql_is_up_to_2x_and_7x_fas... 19. https://gist.github.com/chrisdone/0075a16b32bfd4f62b7b 20. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2lo881/typing_haskell_in_haskell_ma... 21. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2lcx8c/using_haskell_at_work/ 22. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2lcx8c/using_haskell_at_work/ 23. http://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/11/04/category-the-essence-of-composition/ 24. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2la0cx/category_the_essence_of_comp... 25. https://github.com/purescript/purescript/releases/tag/v0.6.0 26. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2lt7oc/purescript_06_released_plus_... 27. http://blog.ezyang.com/2014/11/tomatoes-are-a-subtype-of-vegetables/ 28. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2meyxf/tomatoes_are_a_subtype_of_ve... 29. http://jozefg.bitbucket.org/posts/2014-10-28-stg.html 30. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2kswnp/the_guts_of_a_spineless_mach... 31. http://macbeth.cs.ucdavis.edu/lang_study.pdf 32. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2lb3oz/a_large_scale_study_of_progr... 33. https://github.com/chrisdone/ghci-ng 34. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2l9bvb/ghcing_ghci_plus_extra_goodi... 35. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26770247/haskells-type-checker-is-allowin... 36. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26806653/subsumption-in-polymorphic-types 37. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26827663/rewriting-as-a-practical-optimiz... 38. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26574302/is-there-an-unsigned-integer-typ... 39. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26712188/how-can-i-make-ghci-release-memo... 40. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26729146/how-much-of-pascals-triangle-doe... 41. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26605431/why-is-super-compilation-not-imp... 42. https://plus.google.com/105107667630152149014/about