Haskell Weekly News: August 30, 2005 Greetings, and thanks for reading the fifth issue of HWN, a weekly newsletter for the Haskell community. Each Tuesday, new editions will be posted (as text) to [1]the Haskell mailing list and (as HTML) to [2]The Haskell Sequence. 1. http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell 2. http://sequence.complete.org/ HWN is 1 day late this week. Pesky Real Life (TM) interfered. Sorry about that. Hopefully this won't happen again. Also, anyone that wants to help edit HWN is welcome to do so. See the contributing section at the end. New Releases * FUSE bindings. David Roundy [3]announced bindings for FUSE, the Linux library that lets people develop a filesystem using userspace code. Isaac Jones also [4]mentioned Jeremy Bobbio's FUSE bindings. * FastPackedString (FPS) packaging. Donald Bruce Stewart has extraced the FastPackedString module from darcs and [5]produced a standalone package. It is useful for working with binary data and blocks of string data. * Haskell Server Pages (HASP). Lemmih [6]announced Haskell Server Pages 0.3, an infrastructure for developing dynamic web sites. It's based around XML and the earlier work on HSP. * Cairo bindings for gtk2hs completed. Paolo Martini [7]announced that the Cairo bindings have been checked into the gtk2hs CVS repo on SourceForge. 3. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/8110 4. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/8125 5. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/12003 6. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/12002 7. http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=8063084&forum_id=4429... Discussion Parsing Binary Files. Joel Reymont began an [8]interesting discussion by asking about using Haskell to implement a parser for a binary poker protocol. Erlang has some binary pattern matching features, and there was some discussion about achieving similar results in Haskell. 8. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/8111 Using STArray. Alistair Bayley asked how to use STArray to improve the performance of a program. Numerous suggestions were offered in the ensuing [9]discusion, including a link to some [10]examples on the Haskell wiki. 9. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/8091 10. http://haskell.org/hawiki/ImperativeHaskell Compiling Windows GUI Executables. Juan Carlos Arevalo Baeza [11]asked about compiling Windows GUI executables with ghc. Duncan Coutts posted a [12]link to the Gtk2Hs FAQ explaining the procedure. 11. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.glasgow.user/8584 12. http://haskell.org/gtk2hs/archives/2005/06/23/hiding-the-console-on-windows/ Quotes of the Week Then Edsger Dijkstra came down from Mt. Sinai with a tablet proclaiming "Thou shalt not use GOTO; it is considered harmful"... From Chad Scherror on the haskell-cafe list: "I've been amazed at the level of effort put forth by the Haskell community as a whole to help out newcomers." About Haskell Weekly News Want to continue reading HWN? Please help us create new editions of this newsletter. Please see the [13]contributing information, or send stories to hwn -at- complete -dot- org. There is also a Darcs repository available. 13. http://sequence.complete.org/hwn-contrib