[Haskell-cafe] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 228

[Daniel Santa Cruz]

Welcome to issue 228 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits
of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the
week of May 13 to 19, 2012.

Announcements

Stefan Wehr issued a call for presentations for the Commercial Users
of Functional Programmers (CUFP 2012) conference to be held in
Copenhagen, Denmark during September 13 to 15, 2012.
[1] http://goo.gl/Rl1T9

Quotes of the Week

   * hpc measures understanding in
         angstroms per (second * liter) ^ (1/15)

Top Reddit Stories

   * ANNOUNCE: forthcoming O'Reilly book on Parallel and Concurrent Haskell
     Domain: haskell.org, Score: 101, Comments: 13
     On Reddit: [2] http://goo.gl/UY9L6
     Original: [3] http://goo.gl/oqLo6

   * GHC 7.6 will have support for deferred type errors
     Domain: hackage.haskell.org, Score: 55, Comments: 4
     On Reddit: [4] http://goo.gl/sPknX
     Original: [5] http://goo.gl/ieM9s

   * What happens when you mix three research programming languages together
     Domain: blog.ezyang.com, Score: 41, Comments: 7
     On Reddit: [6] http://goo.gl/ujmF1
     Original: [7] http://goo.gl/jME65

   * Reactive-Banana 0.6: FRP in Haskell, supports both WxHaskell and
     generation to Javascript!
     Domain: apfelmus.nfshost.com, Score: 39, Comments: 3
     On Reddit: [8] http://goo.gl/XrFxl
     Original: [9] http://goo.gl/Uanl6

   * Keter: It's Alive! (Web app deployment system for Haskell)
     Domain: yesodweb.com, Score: 35, Comments: 6
     On Reddit: [10] http://goo.gl/RyuLI
     Original: [11] http://goo.gl/EVcDT

   * Reasoning about Stream Processing with Effects
     Domain: personal.cis.strath.ac.uk, Score: 26, Comments: 26
     On Reddit: [12] http://goo.gl/TI8bj
     Original: [13] http://goo.gl/n2rS0

   * Patches for the new GHC-iPhone (v4) builds but needs a little more
     debugging
     Domain: hip-to-be-square.com, Score: 26, Comments: 27
     On Reddit: [14] http://goo.gl/7QvqK
     Original: [15] http://goo.gl/zLCzr

   * Commutative Edits and Exceptions -- Categorically Dual(ish)?
     Domain: bosker.wordpress.com, Score: 24, Comments: 2
     On Reddit: [16] http://goo.gl/1quI5
     Original: [17] http://goo.gl/ET2ym

   * Parallel Haskell Digest 10: SPJ on Cloud Haskell, concurrent channels,
     meta-par, Accelerate, and StackOverflow'ing like crazy
     Domain: well-typed.com, Score: 21, Comments: 3
     On Reddit: [18] http://goo.gl/z1UiV
     Original: [19] http://goo.gl/iPiAx

   * Interactive Programming with LambdaCalc
     Domain: dynamicaspects.org, Score: 20, Comments: 6
     On Reddit: [20] http://goo.gl/IeEis
     Original: [21] http://goo.gl/n3Bqo

   * BitParser - RFC on a new parsing library for parsing data at the bit
     level. Similar in functionality to Erlang's bit syntax
     Domain: github.com, Score: 18, Comments: 8
     On Reddit: [22] http://goo.gl/a7Qmq
     Original: [23] http://goo.gl/SL1u4

Top StackOverflow Questions

   * Haskell: Between a list and a tuple
     votes: 10, answers: 3
     Read on SO: [24] http://goo.gl/6eiPg

   * Why is it so uncommon to use type signatures in where clauses?
     votes: 9, answers: 4
     Read on SO: [25] http://goo.gl/ih3cK

   * Is there any good Haskell indentation script for Vim?
     votes: 9, answers: 2
     Read on SO: [26] http://goo.gl/t1D3Y

   * Haskell “exceptions”
     votes: 8, answers: 2
     Read on SO: [27] http://goo.gl/5WfTT

   * Is it possible to program and check invariants in haskell?
     votes: 8, answers: 3
     Read on SO: [28] http://goo.gl/5wNE6

   * The “handle” function and Real World Haskell
     votes: 7, answers: 2
     Read on SO: [29] http://goo.gl/K8WK0

   * Haskell: Flatten binary tree
     votes: 7, answers: 2
     Read on SO: [30] http://goo.gl/eSokk

   * How can I uninstall a version of a Cabal package?
     votes: 6, answers: 1
     Read on SO: [31] http://goo.gl/Gl1Mi

   * Fault tolerant JSON parsing
     votes: 6, answers: 1
     Read on SO: [32] http://goo.gl/NBsVH

   * Can a Haskell or Haskell OS thread waiting on Network.Socket.accept
     not be killed on Windows?
     votes: 6, answers: 1
     Read on SO: [33] http://goo.gl/8NHKB

   * efficient functional data structure for finite bijections
     votes: 6, answers: 2
     Read on SO: [34] http://goo.gl/bXA1Ke

Until next time,
Daniel Santa Cruz

References

   1. http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/19157
   2. http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell/2012-May/023328.html
   3. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/trf72/announce_forthcoming_oreilly_book_on_parallel_and/
   4. http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Status/May12
   5. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/tm1mc/ghc_76_will_have_support_for_deferred_type_errors/
   6. http://blog.ezyang.com/2012/05/what-happens-when-you-mix-three-research-programming-languages-together/
   7. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/tptuo/what_happens_when_you_mix_three_research/
   8. http://apfelmus.nfshost.com/blog/2012/05/15-frp-banana-0-6.html
   9. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/toghk/reactivebanana_06_frp_in_haskell_supports_both/
  10. http://www.yesodweb.com/blog/2012/05/keter-its-alive
  11. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/tsyv5/keter_its_alive_web_app_deployment_system_for/
  12. https://personal.cis.strath.ac.uk/~raa/posts/2012-01-06-streams.html
  13. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/tm7ur/reasoning_about_stream_processing_with_effects/
  14. http://hip-to-be-square.com/~blackh/ghc-iphone-new/v4/
  15. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/tnnqc/patches_for_the_new_ghciphone_v4_builds_but_needs/
  16. http://bosker.wordpress.com/2012/05/10/on-editing-text/
  17. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/ts3sz/commutative_edits_and_exceptions_categorically/
  18. http://www.well-typed.com/blog/66
  19. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/tta8y/parallel_haskell_digest_10_spj_on_cloud_haskell/
  20. http://dynamicaspects.org/blog/2012/05/15/back-to-the-future/
  21. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/tokmh/interactive_programming_with_lambdacalc/
  22. https://github.com/axman6/BitParser/tree/bs-state
  23. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/tmhca/bitparser_rfc_on_a_new_parsing_library_for/
  24. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10626943/haskell-between-a-list-and-a-tuple
  25. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10609936/why-is-it-so-uncommon-to-use-type-signatures-in-where-clauses
  26. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10663888/is-there-any-good-haskell-indentation-script-for-vim
  27. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10611382/haskell-exceptions
  28. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10656402/is-it-possible-to-program-and-check-invariants-in-haskell
  29. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10578572/the-handle-function-and-real-world-haskell
  30. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10592920/haskell-flatten-binary-tree
  31. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10576868/how-can-i-uninstall-a-version-of-a-cabal-package
  32. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10604808/fault-tolerant-json-parsing
  33. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10608602/can-a-haskell-or-haskell-os-thread-waiting-on-network-socket-accept-not-be-kille
  34. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10669217/efficient-functional-data-structure-for-finite-bijections