[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 100 - January 10, 2009

10 Jan 2009

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Issue 100 - January 10, 2009
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   Welcome to issue 100 of HWN, a newsletter covering developments in the
   [1]Haskell community.

   Welcome to the 100th (!) issue of the Haskell Weekly News, suitably
   published on your friendly neighborhood HWN editor's 1000th birthday
   (base 3). If you ever have content to be included in the HWN
   (announcements, blog posts, major life news) or a suggestion on how the
   HWN could be more useful to you as a window into the goings-on of the
   Haskell community, please don't hesitate to send it along, using the
   contact information at the end of each issue.

Announcements

   Haskell BLAS bindings version 0.7. Patrick Perry [2]announced the
   [3]release of version 0.7 of the [4]blas package, Haskell bindings to
   the BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms) library. According to
   Patrick, this release is "a major milestone---it is finally the library
   with all of the features that I want."

   X Haskell Bindings. Antoine Latter [5]announced a preview release of
   the [6]X Haskell Bindings. The goal of the library is to provide
   low-level access to the X11 protocol, in the spirit of the [7]X C
   Bindings.

   Data.TCache 0.5.5. Alberto G. Corona [8]announced the 0.5.5 release of
   the [9]TCache package, a transactional data cache with configurable
   persistence. This version adds the the capability to safely handle
   transactions, and incrementally serialize many data types
   simultaneously in the same piece of code.

   haskell-src-exts 0.4.8. Niklas Broberg [10]announced a new release
   (0.4.8) of the [11]haskell-src-exts package. This is a bug-fix release
   in the wake of the flurry of bug reports due to [12]hlint.

   bytestring-trie 0.1.2 (bugfix). wren ng thornton [13]announced a bugfix
   release for [14]bytestring-trie, efficient finite maps from
   (byte)strings to values. This release fixes a bug in alterBy, and adds
   an Eq instance.

   wxHaskell 0.11.1. Jeremy O'Donoghue [15]announced the release of
   [16]wxHaskell 0.11.1, a Haskell binding for the wxWidgets GUI library.
   The main highlights include support for XRC resource files, support for
   wxWidgets 2.8.x and GHC 6.10, and preliminary support for Cabal and
   Hackage.

   cabal2doap 0.1. Greg Heartsfield [17]announced the [18]release of
   [19]Cabal2doap, which generates Description of a Project (DOAP) XML/RDF
   data representing a Haskell project. This should make it possible for
   semantic web project aggregation sites to find and index Haskell
   projects.

Jobs

   Jane Street is hiring functional programmers. Yaron Minsky [20]reminded
   everyone that [21]Jane Street is still hiring! Jane Street now has over
   30 OCaml developers, and is actively looking to hire more in Tokyo,
   London and New York.

   PhD, postdoc, and engineering positions at HATS. CFP [22]announced the
   availability of 10 PhD, postdoc, and engineering positions within the
   HATS project (Highly Adaptable and Trustworthy Software using Formal
   Models), a new Integrated Project funded by the European Union, within
   the programme "Future and Emerging Technologies" (FET). The goal of
   HATS is a tool-supported framework and formal methodology for the
   development of long-lived and trustworthy software systems.

   Hypothetical Haskell job in New York. Tony Hannan [23]asked how many
   would be interested in applying to a hypothetical Haskell job in New
   York, assuming his boss can be convinced to use Haskell.

Blog noise

   [24]Haskell news from the [25]blogosphere.
     * Lennart Augustsson (augustss): [26]LLVM arithmetic.
     * GHC / OpenSPARC Project: [27]Bootstrapping 6.
     * Patrick Perry: [28]New Haskell BLAS bindings!.
     * Clemens Fruhwirth: [29]Liskell standalone.
     * The GHC Team: [30]Benchmarking recent improvements in parallelism.
     * Galois, Inc: [31]Tech Talk: OpenTheory: Package Management for
       Higher Order Logic Theories.
     * Eric Kow (kowey): [32]fold diagram revisited?.
     * GHC / OpenSPARC Project: [33]Bootstrapping 5.
     * Lennart Augustsson (augustss): [34]LLVM.
     * Sebastian Fischer: [35]Monadic and Queue-Based Tree Search.
     * Philip Wadler: [36]Well-typed programs can't be blamed.
     * GHC / OpenSPARC Project: [37]Bootstrapping 4.
     * Manuel M T Chakravarty: [38]GPU Kernels as Data-Parallel Array
       Computations in Haskell..
     * GHC / OpenSPARC Project: [39]Bootstrapping 3.
     * Tom Schrijvers: [40]Monadic Constraint Programming.
     * Conal Elliott: [41]Another angle on functional future values.
     * >>> Greg Heartsfield: [42]Cabal2doap.
     * Christopher Lane Hinson: [43]MaybeArrow?.
     * GHC / OpenSPARC Project: [44]Bootstrapping 2.
     * Darcs: [45]darcs 2.2.0pre2 ready for testing!.
     * Alson Kemp: [46]Sad about Import Cycles.
     * GHC / OpenSPARC Project: [47]Bootstrapping.
     * gamr7: [48]Accessing Recursive Haskell Data Structures from
       C/Python.

Quotes of the Week

     * jml: A wise man once said, "the program isn't debugged until the
       last user is dead".
     * pumpkin: OMG I <3 RECORD SYNTAX
     * Olathe: <Olathe> > floor (1.0/0.0) <lambdabot> 179769... <Olathe>
       But you can see that Haskell can calculate the maximum Integer.
     * lilac: <drdozer> gha! I'm drowning in the haskell number hierarchy
       again <lilac> drdozer: magic 8-ball says 'add calls to
       fromIntegral'
     * monopoly: do not exit IO. go directly to the REPL, do not pass any
       parameters or continuations.
     * EvilTerran: [on category theory] the same place of nightmares that
       spawned zygohistomorphic prepromorphisms :P

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References

   1. http://haskell.org/
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   3. http://quantile95.com/2009/01/09/new-haskell-blas-bindings/
   4. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/blas
   5. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/50170
   6. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/xhb
   7. http://xcb.freedesktop.org/
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  12. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/hlint
  13. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/49956
  14. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/bytestring-trie
  15. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/49898
  16. http://wxhaskell.sourceforge.net/
  17. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/16718
  18. http://blog.gregheartsfield.com/2009/01/04/cabal2doap/
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  28. http://quantile95.com/2009/01/09/new-haskell-blas-bindings/
  29. http://blog.clemens.endorphin.org/2009/01/liskell-standalone.html
  30. http://ghcmutterings.wordpress.com/2009/01/09/46/
  31. http://www.galois.com/blog/2009/01/08/tech-talk-opentheory-package-managemen...
  32. http://koweycode.blogspot.com/2009/01/fold-diagram-revisited.html
  33. http://ghcsparc.blogspot.com/2009/01/bootstrapping-5.html
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  35. http://www-ps.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~sebf/projects/monad-vs-queue.html
  36. http://wadler.blogspot.com/2009/01/well-typed-programs-cant-be-blamed.html
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  54. http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/HWN
  55. http://code.haskell.org/~byorgey/code/hwn/

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 100 - January 10, 2009

Brent Yorgey