Editorial = Just "This week saw some interesting talks at [http://www.wellquite.org/anglohaskell2008/ AngloHaskell], and some cool new packages to hit Hackage, like [http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/language%2Dc Language.C], [http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/AERN-Real AERN-Real], [http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/FTGL FTGL], and [http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/hoogle Hoogle]. What are you waiting for? Get out there and build something!",

Community [

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Announce [

Item
"Initial release of Language.C (language-c-0.3)"
"Benedikt Huber"
"[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.libraries/9809 announced] the [http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/language%2Dc first release] of [http://www.sivity.net/projects/language.c Language.C], a library for analysing and generating C code. This release features a reasonably well tested parser, a pretty printer, and a preview of the analysis framework.",

Item
"darcs roadmap"
"Jason Dagit"
"[http://www.haskell.org//pipermail/haskell-cafe/2008-August/045959.html wrote] to the list to thank everyone for their support for darcs, and to announce a webpage with a [http://wiki.darcs.net/DarcsWiki/Roadmap roadmap] for future darcs features.  Darcs is alive and well!",

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"Anglo Haskell 2008 -- slides and audio"
"Matthew Sackman"
"[http://www.haskell.org//pipermail/haskell-cafe/2008-August/045986.html announced] that [http://www.wellquite.org/anglohaskell2008/ slides and audio from Anglo Haskell 2008] are now available.",

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"BLAS bindings for haskell, version 0.5"
"Patrick Perry"
"[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/43036 announced] a new release of the Haskell BLAS bindings, including a number of new features and improvements.",

Item
"Tutorial on information visualization and visual analytics in Haskell"
"Jefferson Heard"
"[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/42994 announced] the [http://bluheron.europa.renci.org/docs/BeautifulCode.pdf tutorial he will be presenting] at DEFUN 2008, to give everyone a sneak peek at the long version of the tutorial before he's done with it. Comments and questions are welcome and encouraged.",

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"interval and polynomial enclosure arithmetics"
"Michal Konecny"
"[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/16368 announced] the release of the [http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/AERN-Real AERN-Real] and [http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/AERN-RnToRm AERN-RnToRm] packages, which model and reasonably efficiently implement exact real arithmetic.",

Item
"FTGL 1.0. Portable truetype font rendering in OpenGL"
"Jefferson Heard"
"[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/42955 announced] the release of [http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/FTGL Haskell bindings to FTGL], an easy to use library for portable rendering of TrueType fonts in OpenGL."

],

GSoC [

Item
"GHC plugins"
"Max Bolingbroke"
"is working on dynamically loaded plugins for GHC. [http://blog.omega-prime.co.uk/2008/08/11/compiler-plugins-anglohaskell-talk/ This week], he gave [http://www.wellquite.org/anglohaskell2008/ a talk at AngloHaskell].",

Item
"Language.C"
"Benedikt Huber (visq)"
"is [http://www.sivity.net/projects/language.c/wiki/ working on Language.C], a standalone parser/pretty printer library for C99.  This week, he [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.libraries/9809 announced] the [http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/language%2Dc first release] of the [http://www.sivity.net/projects/language.c Language.C] package.",

Item
"Hoogle 4"
"Neil Mitchell (ndm)"
"is working on [http://code.haskell.org/hoogle/ Hoogle 4]. [http://neilmitchell.blogspot.com/2008/08/gsoc-hoogle-week-11.html This week], he released several [http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/hoogle command-line versions] and a [http://haskell.org/hoogle/beta/ web version] of Hoogle 4, updated the manual, and gave [http://www.wellquite.org/anglohaskell2008/ a talk at AngloHaskell].  Next week, he plans to work on generating better Hoogle databases, and some bug fixes.",

Item
"DPH physics engine"
"Roman Cheplyaka (Feuerbach)"
"is working on a [http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Hpysics physics engine] using [http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/GHC/Data_Parallel_Haskell Data Parallel Haskell].  [http://physics-dph.blogspot.com/2008/08/status-report-week-11-12.html This week], he added complete support for general polyhedra, and fixed some bugs in the collision handler.  He also added support for bounding spheres, although the results so far are disappointing, due to delays in the GHC implementation of parallel arrays.  Next week, he plans to implement static bodies and BSP trees.",

Item
"Generic tries"
"Jamie Brandon"
"is working on a library for efficient maps using generalized tries.",

Item
"GHC API"
"Thomas Schilling (nominolo)"
"is working on [http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/GhcApiStatus improvements to the GHC API].",

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"Cabal dependency framework"
"Andrea Vezzosi (Saizan)"
"is working on a [http://code.haskell.org/~Saizan/cabal make-like dependency analysis framework] for Cabal."

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Jobs [

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Blogs   [

Post
"2008-08-12"
"Douglas M. Auclair (geophf)"
"Monoid use"
""
"http://logicaltypes.blogspot.com/2008/05/monoid-use.html"
N,

Post
"2008-08-13"
"Nicholas Lativy"
"Haskell in less than five minutes"
"Nicholas refreshes his memory of Haskell."
"http://blog.lativy.org/2008/08/13/haskell-in-less-than-five-minutes/"
NP,

Post
"2008-08-03"
"codeflow"
"About AI and neural networks"
"codeflow implements neural networks in Haskell for some soccer-playing AI software."
"http://codeflow.wordpress.com/2008/08/03/about-ai-and-neural-networks/"
NP,

Post
"2008-08-12"
"Roman Cheplyaka"
"Status report: week 11-12"
""
"http://physics-dph.blogspot.com/2008/08/status-report-week-11-12.html"
N,

Post
"2008-08-12"
"Douglas M. Auclair (geophf)"
"Combinatory Birds as Types"
""
"http://logicaltypes.blogspot.com/2008/08/combinatory-birds-as-types.html"
N,

Post
"2008-08-12"
"Douglas M. Auclair (geophf)"
"Getting Better, part ]["
""
"http://logicaltypes.blogspot.com/2008/08/getting-better-part.html"
N,

Post
"2008-08-11"
"Neil Mitchell"
"GSoC Hoogle: Week 11"
""
"http://neilmitchell.blogspot.com/2008/08/gsoc-hoogle-week-11.html"
N,

Post
"2008-08-11"
"Max Bolingbroke"
"Compiler Plugins AngloHaskell Talk"
""
"http://blog.omega-prime.co.uk/2008/08/11/compiler-plugins-anglohaskell-talk/"
N,

Post
"2008-08-11"
"London Haskell Users Group"
"Video: Paradise, a DSEL for Derivatives Pricing"
""
"http://www.londonhug.net/2008/08/11/video-paradise-a-dsel-for-derivatives-pricing/"
N,

Post
"2008-08-10"
"Luke Palmer"
"Mindfuck: The Reverse State Monad"
""
"http://luqui.org/blog/archives/2008/08/10/mindfuck-the-reverse-state-monad/"
N,

Post
"2008-08-09"
"Dan Piponi (sigfpe)"
"Untangling with Continued Fractions: Part 0"
""
"http://sigfpe.blogspot.com/2008/08/untangling-with-continued-fractions.html"
N,

Post
"2008-08-09"
"Joachim Breitner"
"Xmonad on my mobile phone"
""
"https://www.joachim-breitner.de/blog/archives/300-Xmonad-on-my-mobile-phone.html"
N,

Post
"2008-08-09"
"Luke Palmer"
"Composable Input for Fruit"
""
"http://luqui.org/blog/archives/2008/08/09/composable-input-for-fruit/"
N,

Post
"2008-08-08"
"Magnus Therning"
"TagSoup, meet Parsec!"
"Magnus uses Parsec to parse streams of tags."
"http://therning.org/magnus/archives/367"
N,

Post
"2008-08-11"
"Roman Cheplyaka (Feuerbach)"
"Compiling GHC"
"Roman records his experiences building the latest development version of GHC."
"http://ro-che.blogspot.com/2008/08/compiling-ghc.html"
N,

Post
"2008-08-09"
"Louis"
"A Gentle Introduction to Haskell"
"Louis is learning Haskell by working through the Gentle Introduction."
"http://lbks23.wordpress.com/2008/08/09/a-gentle-introduction-to-haskell/"
NP,

Post
"2008-08-09"
"Bryan St. Amour"
"Some Project Euler"
"Bryan learns some Haskell the good old-fashioned way---by solving Project Euler problems."
"http://bryanstamour.com/?p=46"
NP,

Post
"2008-08-02"
"Matthew Trinneer"
"A New Paradigm - Haskell and HAppS"
""
"http://thespohtexperiment.blogspot.com/2008/08/new-paradigm.html"
NP,

Post
"2008-08-07"
"Thomas M. DuBuisson"
"hsXenCtrl and pureMD5"
""
"http://tommd.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/hsxenctrl-and-puremd5/"
N,

Post
"2008-08-06"
"Alpheccar"
"Haskell, iPhone and Biotech"
""
"http://www.alpheccar.org/en/posts/show/92"
N,

Post
"2008-08-03"
"Vincent Kriek"
"And the winner is..."
"Vincent decides to stick with xmonad."
"http://www.vincentkriek.nl/post/and-the-winner-is/"
NP

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Quotes  [

Quote
"Anatoly Yakovenko"
"theory doesn't scare me.  i am using haskell after all, so i am used to reading long winded papers.",

Quote
"bwr"
"mapM_ putStrLn$reverse[(++)([1..y-30]>>\" \")$concat$map([\"  \",\" /\", \" -\", \" \\\\\"]!!)[(foldr(.)(scanl(+)1)([1..y]>>[scanl(+)0])[2..]!!(2*(1+y)+x))`mod`4|x<-[-y-2..59-y*2]]|y<-[30..61]]"

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