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\Huge\textbf{Haskell Weekly News} 
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Issue 48, November 08, 2006 \\
\url{http://sequence.complete.org/}
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\section*{SmallCheck 0.2}

Colin Runciman announced that SmallCheck 0.2, a lightweight testing
library for Haskell, is out. Since version 0.1: there's now a choice of
interactive or non-interactive test-drivers using iterative deepening;
more pre-defined test-data generators, including revised Int, Integer,
Float, Double, Nat and Natural and additional examples.

\section*{Hoogle Command Line 3 Beta}

Neil Mitchell released Hoogle Command Line version 3 Beta, an
alternative to the Hoogle website. Hoogle lets you search for Haskell
functions by name and by type signature.

\section*{The Monad.Reader}

Wouter Swierstra issued a call for submissions for articles for the next
issue of The Monad.Reader. There are a large number of conferences
and journals that accept research papers related to Haskell;
unfortunately, the platform for non-academic publications is far less
developed. This is where The Monad.Reader fits in. So if you are tossing
around some ideas, write it up, and submit! Deadline for submissions is
January 19th, 2007.

\section*{Haskell Communities and Activities Report}

Andres Loeh reminded us that the deadline for the November 2006 edition
of the Haskell Communities and Activities Report is now! -- there may
still be just enough time to make sure that the report contains a
section on *your* project, on the interesting stuff that you've been
doing; using or affecting Haskell in some way.

\section*{HaL, Haskell meeting in Leipzig} 

Johannes Waldmann announced that a local Haskell meeting is to take
place on December 5th in Leipzig, Germany. The meeting will be hosted by
IBA Consulting. It will be quite informal, with some very short talks.


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\item \emph{coffeemug} There don't seem to be any definitive sources that suggest Haskell isn't good at something.

\item \emph{skew} Types are largely about writing down the contract of a function once and telling the compiler to keep track of things, rather than trying to get it all straight yourself, and being rewarded with bugs that only manifest during demos...

\item \emph{audreyt} Because Haskell is such a reasonable language, we
reason about it all the time, and we also have a bot to reason it for us
when we are lazy

\item \emph{sjanssen} I suspect that planet.haskell.org has more content
on catamorphisms than cats

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\textbf{Choose higher order, polymorphic and purely functional. Choose Haskell.} \\
\url{http://haskell.org/} \\
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