Haskell Weekly News: October 4, 2005 Greetings, and thanks for reading the 10th 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/ New Releases The Monad.Reader, Issue 5. Shae Matijs Erisson [3]announced the release of the fifth issue of The Monad.Reader, the online magazine devoted to Haskell. Subjects in this issue include a short introduction to Haskell, generating polyominoes, a ray tracer, number parameterized types, practical graph manipulation, and a short introduction to software testing in Haskell. TMR is available [4]online. 3. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/12216 4. http://www.haskell.org/tmrwiki/IssueFive Discussion Quiet or Busy? It's been a quiet week on the Haskell lists, so this week's HWN is a bit sparse. But that's because many Haskellers were at the Haskell workshops at ICFP in Estonia. I expect we'll see some fallout from those workshops on the list in the coming week. Haskell workshop items. Over on the IRC channel [5]logs from September 30, there was a live conversation beginning at 15:36:33 of the "Future of Haskell discussion." Autrijus Tang's journal had several pages of entries, including one [6]providing a nice summary. 5. http://meme.b9.com/cview.html?channel=haskell&date=050930 6. http://use.perl.org/~autrijus/journal/26953 Endian conversion. Joel Reymont asked about converting binary data in a network protocol, and several suggestions were posted in the resulting [7]discussion. 7. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/8556 Is putChar strict? John Meacham [8]asked this question, and pointed out that different Haskell compilers/interpreters are behaving in different ways. 8. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/12224 About Haskell Weekly News Want to continue reading HWN? Please help us create new editions of this newsletter. Please see the [9]contributing information, or send stories to hwn -at- complete -dot- org. There is also a Darcs repository available. 9. http://sequence.complete.org/hwn-contrib