[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 113 - April 13, 2009

Brent Yorgey byorgey at seas.upenn.edu
Mon Apr 13 03:51:35 EDT 2009


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Haskell Weekly News
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Issue 113 - April 13, 2009
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   Welcome to issue 113 of HWN, a newsletter covering developments in the
   [1]Haskell community.

Announcements

   xmobar-0.9.2. Andrea Rossato [2]announced the release of
   [3]xmobar-0.9.2, which features a fix for a longstanding resource
   leakage bug, new nested color definitions, and more.

   CFP Haskell Symposium 2009. Stephanie Weirich [4]reminded everyone that
   there are only 4 weeks until the submission deadline for the [5]2009
   Haskell Symposium!

   hmatrix-static: statically-sized linear algebra. Reiner Pope
   [6]announced the release of [7]hmatrix-static, a thin wrapper over
   Alberto Ruiz's excellent [8]hmatrix library for linear algebra. The
   main additions of hmatrix-static over hmatrix are that vectors and
   matrices have their length encoded in their types, and vectors and
   matrices may be constructed and destructed using view patterns,
   affording a clean, safe syntax.

   haskellmode for Vim now at projects.haskell.org. Claus Reinke
   [9]announced that the Haskell mode plugins for Vim have just completed
   their move to their [10]new home, and took the opportunity to reiterate
   what they can do (quite a lot, it seems), and mention that some
   screencasts are available.

   MSem replacement for QSem. ChrisK [11]announced [12]MSem, a proposed
   replacement module for Control.Concurrent.QSem.

   Hac5 is almost upon us!. Sean Leather [13]reminded everyone that in six
   days, tens of crazy/obsessed, type-safe, functional programmers will be
   converging on Utrecht to commence execution of the [14]5th Haskell
   Hackathon, from April 17-19, 2009 in Utrecht, The Netherlands! The
   local organizing team welcomes you all and looks forward to all of the
   new developments that come out of everyone's undying quest to write
   more and better code.

   Yogurt-0.4. Martijn van Steenbergen [15]announced version 0.4 of
   [16]Yogurt, a functional MUD client. Version 0.4 makes Yogurt available
   as a standalone executable that is able to dynamically load and reload
   Yogurt scripts.

   Elerea, another FRP library. Patai Gergely [17]announced the release of
   [18]Elerea, aka "Eventless reactivity", a minimalistic FRP
   implementation that comes with a convenient applicative interface,
   supports recursive definition of signals and signals fed from outside
   by IO actions, plays nice with resources, and is the result of some
   furious hacking. There are working examples to show off the current
   capabilities of the library, found in the separate [19]elerea-examples
   package.

   tree-monad 0.2. Sebastian Fischer [20]announced version 0.2 of the
   [21]tree-monad package, which provides instances of MonadPlus that
   represent the search space of non- deterministic computations as a
   tree. Version 0.2 implements an optimized CPS version of the tree.

   HCard -- A library for implementing card-like structures.. Joe Fredette
   [22]announced the release of [23]HCard, a library which supports a
   card-like data structures and uses associated types to provide
   shuffling, dealing, and other facilities. It's general enough to
   support many different types of playing cards; it currently comes with
   the common "French Deck" (4-suit, 13 card deck that is very common in
   the US) implemented and an example cribbage scoring application.

   SVGFonts 0.1. Tillmann Vogt [24]announced his first Haskell library,
   [25]SVGFonts 0.1, which parses the relatively unknown SVG Font format
   to produce outlines of characters. The big advantage of this format is
   that it is XML, which means easy parsing and manipulating.

   network-bytestring 0.1.2. Johan Tibell [26]announced a new release of
   [27]network-bytestring, a Haskell library for fast socket I/O using
   ByteStrings. New in this release is support for scatter/gather I/O
   (also known as vectored I/O). Scatter/gather I/O provides more
   efficient I/O by using one system call to send several separate pieces
   of data and by avoiding unnecessary copying.

Jobs

   Lecturer in Computer Science, University of Leicester. Roy L. Crole
   [28]announced an opening for a lectureship at the University of
   Leicester. The successful candidate will have a strong or promising
   research record in computer science, with a background in formal
   foundations (either algorithms and complexity, or semantics of
   programming or modelling languages), and will be able to contribute to
   undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and supervision in software
   engineering.

Blog noise

   [29]Haskell news from the [30]blogosphere.
     * Mark Wassell: [31]Edge Detection in Haskell.
     * Sean Leather: [32]Latest on the incremental fold and attributes.
     * Sean Leather: [33]Haskell mode for Vim on a Mac.
     * Sean Leather: [34]Incremental attributes.
     * >>> Human Constraints: [35]Haskell Type Hackery.
     * LHC Team: [36]A new beginning..
     * London Haskell Users Group: [37]Don Stewart: Engineering Large
       Projects in Haskell: A Decade of Haskell at Galois.
     * Ulisses Costa: [38]More Hylomorphisms in Haskell.
     * Ulisses Costa: [39]Anamorphisms in Haskell.
     * London Haskell Users Group: [40]Next Meeting: Don Stewart from
       Galois.
     * LHC Team: [41]Hello world!.
     * mightybyte: [42]Adding Authentication to the Blog App.
     * Leon Smith: [43]Polynomial multiplication.
     * Joe Fredette: [44]Card games, scorekeeping, and ... Associated
       Datatypes?.
     * mightybyte: [45]Basic Happstack Blog App.
     * mightybyte: [46]A Standalone Auth Framework for Happstack.
     * Mads Lindstrøm: [47]Introducing WxGeneric.
     * happstack.com: [48]2 new projects that use Happstack.
     * >>> Brant Carlson: [49]Lightning Modeling in Haskell.
     * Leon Smith: [50]Lloyd Allison's Corecursive Queues.

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References

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   7. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/hmatrix-static
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  26. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/56374
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  57. http://code.haskell.org/~byorgey/code/hwn/


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