20 Sep 2012 03:36
Haskell Weekly News: Issue 244
Daniel Santa Cruz <dstcruz <at> gmail.com>
2012-09-20 01:36:14 GMT
2012-09-20 01:36:14 GMT
Welcome to issue 244 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits
of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the
week of September 9 to September 15, 2012.
Inbox
As you might have heard, GHC 7.6.1 is out for all platforms. I would
say "get it while it is still hot", but I guess I missed my opportunity
to do that last week.
Sonke Hahn wrote in to announce that on Monday "Story Episodes of
Nikki and the Robots" was was released.
Malcolm Wallace has uploaded videos from ICFP 2012, for those of us
that didn't have the opportunity to be there. Big thanks for sharing
these with the community!
Quotes of the Week
* copumpkin: when in doubt, blame ski
* shachaf: You can call the greengrocer and place an order. That'll
convert their unordered pears into ordered pears!
* shachaf: Those who would give up essential type independence for a
little temporary type safety deserve neither independence nor
safety.
* ddarius: edwardk: So your plan for Haskell adoption is to write
Haskell in languages that aren't Haskell, say "Man, these languages
suck, this would be super easy in Haskell", and then use the
Haskell you started with reproducing functionality at an
"unbelievable" rate.
* cmccann: personally I'm just waiting for an extension that demotes
types to the value level, so that we can finally have natural
numbers.
Top Reddit Stories
* Yet another Haskell IDE in the works
Domain: yesodweb.com, Score: 71, Comments: 94
On Reddit: [4] http://goo.gl/N1nfs
Original: [5] http://goo.gl/z47p8
* The case of the mysterious explosion in space
Domain: serpentine.com, Score: 65, Comments: 9
On Reddit: [6] http://goo.gl/O782g
Original: [7] http://goo.gl/eQxOc
* Haskell vs. F# vs. Scala: A High-level Language Features and Parallelism Support Comparison
Domain: macs.hw.ac.uk, Score: 47, Comments: 30
On Reddit: [8] http://goo.gl/XWdPX
Original: [9] http://goo.gl/daRy2
* The functor design pattern
Domain: haskellforall.com, Score: 42, Comments: 45
On Reddit: [10] http://goo.gl/FpJL4
Original: [11] http://goo.gl/pZ4yu
* How To Exclude Women From Your Technical Community: A Tutorial
Domain: tim.dreamwidth.org, Score: 42, Comments: 309
On Reddit: [12] http://goo.gl/iKN7H
Original: [13] http://goo.gl/GKMjb
* A simple library that allows logic programming in Haskell
Domain: github.com, Score: 38, Comments: 10
On Reddit: [14] http://goo.gl/J9Pbp
Original: [15] http://goo.gl/1bRw5
* Larry Wall: "You should probably know about it [Haskell] if only to be able to say 'is this like Haskell?', and, if so, then you know you'll have to hire some really smart people to program in it."
Domain: youtube.com, Score: 34, Comments: 130
On Reddit: [16] http://goo.gl/z1PTW
Original: [17] http://goo.gl/5bCN9
* Malcolm Wallace is broadcasting videos from ICFP
Domain: m.youtube.com, Score: 33, Comments: 9
On Reddit: [18] http://goo.gl/O6uuy
Original: [19] http://goo.gl/Kyg5O
* Darcs hub alpha: a darcsden fork to “turn the dogfooding knobs up to 11”
Domain: hub.darcs.net, Score: 30, Comments: 10
On Reddit: [20] http://goo.gl/5D614
Original: [21] http://goo.gl/pDHL9
* The Architecture of the Mighttpd High-Speed Web Server
Domain: iij.ad.jp, Score: 28, Comments: 4
On Reddit: [22] http://goo.gl/7yRbw
Original: [23] http://goo.gl/oCkBt
* Tying the knot on a Rubik's cube
Domain: self.haskell, Score: 25, Comments: 7
On Reddit: [24] http://goo.gl/0XPiY
Original: [25] http://goo.gl/0XPiY
* Kazu Yamamoto: Improving the performance of Warp
Domain: yesodweb.com, Score: 24, Comments: 1
On Reddit: [26] http://goo.gl/yvRfR
Original: [27] http://goo.gl/gEQlA
* Taking advantage of "Theorems for Free"?
Domain: self.haskell, Score: 20, Comments: 9
On Reddit: [28] http://goo.gl/cqy6U
Original: [29] http://goo.gl/cqy6U
Top StackOverflow Questions
* Is there a nice way to make function signatures more informative in Haskell?
votes: 37, answers: 6
Read on SO: [30] http://goo.gl/vOY98
* Purely functional data structures for text editors
votes: 26, answers: 7
Read on SO: [31] http://goo.gl/ciJQ3
* Lazy Pattern matching in Data.List
votes: 15, answers: 1
Read on SO: [32] http://goo.gl/T2YPC
* Can I provide the type-checker with proofs about inductive naturals in GHC 7.6?
votes: 14, answers: 1
Read on SO: [33] http://goo.gl/zoMDr
* Why does Haskell's “flip id” has this type?
votes: 12, answers: 1
Read on SO: [34] http://goo.gl/HWuyZ
* How long pauses can occur in a Haskell program due to garbage collection?
votes: 11, answers: 1
Read on SO: [35] http://goo.gl/Stnq7
* Good introduction to free theorems [closed]
votes: 11, answers: 1
Read on SO: [36] http://goo.gl/2OVYJ
* Int vs Word in common use?
votes: 10, answers: 3
Read on SO: [37] http://goo.gl/JR9xK
* Haskell collections with guaranteed worst-case bounds for every single operation?
votes: 9, answers: 1
Read on SO: [38] http://goo.gl/Oc4L9
* Zipper data structure for graphical model editor
votes: 8, answers: 1
Read on SO: [39] http://goo.gl/BF865
Until next time,
Daniel Santa Cruz
References
15. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/zq1gb/a_simple_library_that_allows_logic_programming_in/
19. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/zsjag/malcolm_wallace_is_broadcasting_videos_from_icfp/
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