Welcome to issue 160 of the HWN, a newsletter covering developments in the [1]Haskell community in the week of November 21 - 27. My apologies for proving a much shorter version of the weekly news this time around. I'm really short on time this week, but decided to send this abbreviated version rather than skipping it. Hope to resume full coverage next week. Cheers! Top Reddit Stories * Lisk - Lisp and Haskell Domain: chrisdone.com Score: 70, Comments: 83 On Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/ec0kp/lisk_lisp_and_haskell/ Original: http://chrisdone.com/posts/2010-11-25-lisk-lisp-haskell.html * lazycatmanatee is building a enormous suite of graphical, desktop apps in Haskell. Here's the screenshot feed Domain: flickr.com Score: 58, Comments: 11 On Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/eb5kd/lazycatmanatee_is_building_a_... Original: http://www.flickr.com/photos/48809572@N02/ * Category theory for Haskell programmers Domain: geoffhulette.wordpress.com Score: 49, Comments: 7 On Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/eatd6/category_theory_for_haskell_p... Original: http://geoffhulette.wordpress.com/2010/11/22/category-theory-for-haskell-pro... * Duck typing in Haskell Domain: chrisdone.com Score: 45, Comments: 10 On Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/ea99a/duck_typing_in_haskell/ Original: http://chrisdone.com/posts/2010-11-22-duck-typing-in-haskell.html * GHC 7 I/O manager status update: bugs fixed, performance improved, plans afoot! Domain: serpentine.com Score: 41, Comments: 0 On Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/ecls3/ghc_7_io_manager_status_updat... Original: http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2010/11/27/ghc-7-io-manager-status/ * And here I thought they were using Haskell... Domain: i.imgur.com Score: 34, Comments: 11 On Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/ebgnj/and_here_i_thought_they_were_... Original: http://i.imgur.com/ApzhX.png * Fun with monad comprehensions Domain: blog.n-sch.de Score: 33, Comments: 9 On Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/ecu0w/fun_with_monad_comprehensions... Original: http://blog.n-sch.de/2010/11/27/fun-with-monad-comprehensions/ * The 'text' package has been accepted into the Haskell Platform! Domain: self.haskell Score: 31, Comments: 20 On Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/eb7fd/the_text_package_has_been_acc... Original: /r/haskell/comments/eb7fd/the_text_package_has_been_accepted_into_the/ * Yesod 0.6.3 Released Domain: docs.yesodweb.com Score: 24, Comments: 1 On Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/e9jfd/yesod_063_released/ Original: http://docs.yesodweb.com/blog/yesod-0-6-3/ * how subtraction works for combinatorial species Domain: byorgey.wordpress.com Score: 24, Comments: 2 On Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/ec5mx/how_subtraction_works_for_com... Original: http://byorgey.wordpress.com/2010/11/24/species-subtraction-made-simple/ Top StackOverflow Questions * Avoiding namespace pollution in Haskell votes: 14, answers: 3 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4260507/avoiding-namespace-pollution-in-h... * Keeping State in a Stateless world votes: 7, answers: 2 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4259800/keeping-state-in-a-stateless-worl... * Updating a Big State Fast in Haskell votes: 7, answers: 2 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4265660/updating-a-big-state-fast-in-hask... * What is the most efficient purely functional algorithm for generating all prefixes of a list? votes: 7, answers: 2 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4290370/what-is-the-most-efficient-purely... * How can I make a graphical command line in haskell/gtk2hs? votes: 6, answers: 2 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4281984/how-can-i-make-a-graphical-comman... * Point-free form versus style votes: 5, answers: 3 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4235741/point-free-form-versus-style * How to catch (and ignore) a call to the error function? votes: 4, answers: 2 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4243117/how-to-catch-and-ignore-a-call-to... * Persistent console history in ghci votes: 4, answers: 1 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4249351/persistent-console-history-in-ghc... * Common Lisp equivalent to Haskell's main function? votes: 4, answers: 2 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4285718/common-lisp-equivalent-to-haskell... * How can I write a MST algorithm (Prim or Kruskal) in Haskell? votes: 4, answers: 3 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4290163/how-can-i-write-a-mst-algorithm-p... About the Haskell Weekly News New editions are posted to [2]the Haskell mailing list as well as to [3]the Haskell Sequence and [4]Planet Haskell. [5]RSS is also available, and headlines appear on [6]haskell.org. To help create new editions of this newsletter, please send stories to dstcruz * at * gmail * dot * com. The code used to produce this version of the newsletter is not yet publicly available, as it is a complete hack designed to get things started again. Until next time, Daniel Santa Cruz References 1. http://haskell.org/ 2. http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell 3. http://sequence.complete.org/ 4. http://planet.haskell.org/ 5. http://sequence.complete.org/node/feed 6. http://haskell.org/