This week is an experiment, I'm eliminating the mail client from the sendout, and simply using sendmail directly. If this doesn't fix the line ending problem, then I'm pretty sure it's a software issue, and not a client issue. If you notice problems, please email me at this address, put [HWN] in the subject line so my filters will catch it. Please _don't_ email me if there are no problems. Thanks, /Joe --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haskell Weekly News http://sequence.complete.org/hwn/20090926 Issue 133 - September 26, 2009 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to issue 133 of HWN, a newsletter covering developments in the [1]Haskell community. This week, we have a few new libraries, some interesting discussion about EDSLs, a comment from Oleg, and dons extolling the virtues of SCIENCE! On the new HWN software front, I've decided to jump right into something I had planned for far further down the development chain. Specifically, rather than scraping GMane for messages, I've been working on a way to grab the messages directly from the mailing-lists. I'm not entirely sure how I'm going to create links as they are now for the messages, but one crisis at a time. Till next week, here's the Haskell Weekly News! Announcements epoll bindings 0.2. Toralf Wittner [2]announced the release of epoll bindings 0.2 available [3]here. Epoll is an I/O event notification facility for Linux similar to poll but with good scaling characteristics. This release adds a buffer abstraction on top of the existing low-level bindings, so client code can write and read to buffers without having to deal directly with the underlying epoll event handling. diagrams 0.2.1, and planned major improvements. Brent Yorgey [4]announced version 0.2.1 of the diagrams library, available now on [5]Hackage. This minor release which fixes a few bugs and adds a few new combinators, most notably a grid layout combinator contributed by Ganesh Sittampalam. Workflow-0.5.5, TCache-0.6.4 RefSerialize-0.2.4. Alberto G. Corona [6]announced Workflow 0.5.5. Workflow provides a monad transformer that encapsulates any monad in a state monad that bring automatic state logging and recovery. A workflow can be viewed as a thread that persist across planeed or unplanned application shutdowns. When recovering the execution is resumed at the last action that was logged. The process continues at the same state as if not interruption took place. graphviz-2999.5.1.1. Ivan Lazar Miljenovic [7]announced version 2999.5.1.1 of the [8]graphviz library. This is another bug-fix release, fixing the problem spotted by Kathleen Fisher where Dot keywords need to be explicitly quoted if used as labels, etc. There is no change to the API. histogram-fill, library for creating histograms. Khudyakov Alexey [9]announced [10]histogram-fill. histogram-fill provides a generic and convenient API for making histograms. Features include, multiple simultaneous histogram creation, Immutable histograms, and Serialization to and from human readable text. Darcs Hacking Sprint - 14-15 November Vienna. Eric Kow [11]announced the third Darcs Hacking Sprint. Which will take place 14-15 November, 2009 at the University of Technology, Vienna, Austria. Anybody who wants to hack on Darcs (or Camp, Focal, SO6, etc) -- Beginners especially -- are welcome! 2nd CFP: TLDI 2010. Andrew Kennedy [12]announced a second call for papers for TLDI2010, the Types in Language Design and Implementation Workshop. darcs 2.3.1: better docs, fewer bugs. Reinier Lamers [13]announced a new stable version of darcs, with bugfixes from 2.3.0, improved documentation, and removal of the old autoconf build system. TFM09: Call for Participation (FMWeek, Eindhoven, November 2009). J.N. Oliveira [14]announced a Call for Participation in TFM2009 2nd Int. FME Conference on Teaching Formal Methods Friday, November 6th 2009, co-located with FM2009 : 16th Int. Symposium on Formal Methods Eindhoven, the Netherlands, November 2 - November 6, 2009. Discussion Monad Tutorial in C++. Adrian May [15]wrote a tutorial about monads in some other niche language... Beginning of a meta-Haskell. Oleg -- [16]as if he needs any introduction -- commented on things far above my ability to understand. Evidently, however, it involves extensible, modular interpreters in the ``tagless final'' style. It was a reply to an earlier thread [17]here. An issue with EDSLs in the ``finally tagless'' tradition. Brad Larsen [18]talked about his run in with [19]the expression problem while experimenting with EDSLs. Blog noise [20]Haskell news from the [21]blogosphere. Blog posts from people new to the Haskell community are marked with >>>, be sure to welcome them! * Bryan O'Sullivan: [22]Riddle me this. * David Amos: [23]Finite geometries, part 3: Points in PG(n,Fq). David's continuing series on Finite Geometries. * Neil Brown: [24]Concurrent Pearl: The Expanding Prime Pipeline. * Mikael Vejdemo Johansson (Syzygy-): [25][MATH198] Lecture 1 now online. Mikael's first Category Theory Lecture is up online. * Brent Yorgey: [26]diagrams 0.2.1, and future plans. * Alex McLean: [27]hackpact week 4. Part of the continuing series on Alex's hackpact progress. * Manuel M T Chakravarty: [28]Heads Up: GHC devs on Macs - GHC's testsuite crashes spotlight indexer on SL. * Clint Moore: [29]8 Cores of Awesome. * Bryan O'Sullivan: [30]Video of my CUFP keynote. * Chris Smith: [31]Thoughts on Hackage and the Haskell Platform. * Manuel M T Chakravarty: [32]Haskell Bindings to C -> c2hs. * Neil Brown: [33]Functions into processes, using arrows. * Brent Yorgey: [34]Functional MetaPost. * Malcolm Wallace: [35]Haskell Symposium 2009 - videos now online. * DEFUN 2009: [36]DEFUN and CUFP 2009 registration are now open!. * Chris Smith: [37]Type Classes With An Easier Example. * Darcs: [38]darcs weekly news #41. * Greg Bacon: [39]Haskell craps. * Bryan O'Sullivan: [40]A new pseudo-random number generator for Haskell. * Thomas M. DuBuisson: [41]HacPDX is Coming. * Dan Piponi (sigfpe): [42]More Parsing With Best First Search. * Osfameron: [43]Coin Tricks. Quotes of the Week * lilac: ponders whether unsafePerformIO would be better as simonSaysPerformIO * bos: [On the type signature of hPrintf] This makes me a sad Irish panda. * ksf: (But if (on the other hand)) (I think only a number in general (whether it be five or a hundred)) (this thought is rather the representation of a method (whereby a multiplicity (for instance a thousand) may be represented (in an image in conformity with a certain concept)) than the image itself. * dons: ah, via the magic of SCIENCE * dobblego: many of my colleagues used to be [fond of ruby] as well until I was let loose on them * dons: (on whether a library is wanted) *yes* put it on Hackage! * BMeph: (about parsec) 'Cause it's light-years ahead of the competition! * switch: Comeon people! You make the news! * ray: I think programmers make the worst programmers, also the worst people, and I'm saying this having not looked at programming reddit in a while. * Orclev: ... a lot of haskell still looks greek to me, and I'm not talking about lambdas. * Jason Dusek: "Some day, we're going to need a short, catchy name for Cabal packages. Let's call them cabbages." [see http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/63649]. * Reinier Lamers: If we keep up the current pace of performance hacking, darcs will be complete before you even hit the enter key in a few years * Trent Buck: [To Reiner Lamers] With the appropriate (ie unbuffered) terminal, this is already the case for interactive prompts. About the Haskell Weekly News New editions are posted to [44]the Haskell mailing list as well as to [45]the Haskell Sequence and [46]Planet Haskell. [47]RSS is also available, and headlines appear on [48]haskell.org. 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