Editorial = Just "This is the \"This issue is not late since the HWN will henceforth be published on Saturday now that I have real work to do\" edition. Featured this week: darcs hacking sprint plans solidify, xmonad 0.8 released, typed sprintf and sscanf, and tons of discussion about everything from functional references to splitting up the base library to the future direction of Haskell.",

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Announce [

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"unicode-properties 3.2.0.0, unicode-names 3.2.0.0"
"Ashley Yakeley"
"[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.libraries/9973 announced] the release of the [http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/unicode-properties unicode-properties 3.2.0.0] and [http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/unicode-names unicode-names 3.2.0.0] packages, which are representations in Haskell of various data in the Unicode 3.2.0 Character Database.",

Item
"experimental static blog engine in Haskell"
"jinjing"
"[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/44181 announced] the initial release of [http://jinjing.blog.easymic.com/ Panda], an experimental static blog engine written in Haskell.",

Item
"darcs hacking sprint, venues confirmed! (25-26 October)"
"Eric Y. Kow"
"[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/44164 announced] that two venues (Brighton, UK and Portland, Oregon, USA) have been confirmed for the [http://wiki.darcs.net/index.html/Sprints darcs hacking sprint] on 25-26 October.",

Item
"darcs weekly news #2"
"Eric Y. Kow"
"The second weekly issue of the [http://code.haskell.org/darcs/darcs-news darcs weekly news] has been published.",

Item
"xmonad 0.8 released!"
"Don Stewart"
"[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/44157 announced] the release of [http://xmonad.org xmonad 0.8], featuring a general purpose \"gaps\" replacement, locale support, the ability to create your own configuration parsers, and various other [http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Notable_changes_since_0.7 enhancements and fixes].",

Item
"POPL logo design contest"
"Don Stewart"
"[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/44069 forwarded] a message announcing a logo design contest for POPL 2009. Dust off your magic markers/photoshop skills and get designing!",

Item
"ICFP09 Announcement"
"Matthew Fluet"
"[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/16413 announced] [http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/icfp09.html ICFP 2009], to be held 31st August to 2nd September 2009 in Edinburgh. ICFP provides a forum for researchers and developers to hear about the latest work on the design, implementations, principles, and uses of functional programming.",

Item
"Fast parallel binary-trees for the shootout: Control.Parallel.Strategies FTW!"
"Don Stewart"
"[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/43968 announced] that the Computer Language Shootout recently got a quad core 64 bit machine, and outlined a plan and some initial results for porting the Haskell entries to take advantage of the available parallelism.",

Item
"The initial view on typed sprintf and sscanf"
"oleg"
"[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/16405 announced] an implementation of typed sprintf and sscanf functions sharing the same formatting specifications, which also led to some interesting discussion and alternative proposals."

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Discussion [


Item
"Generalize groupBy in a useful way?"
"Bart Massey"
"[http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.libraries/10016 proposed] changing the implementation of groupBy to extend its usefulness for predicates which are not equivalence relations.",

Item
"Splitting SYB from the base package in GHC 6.10"
"José Pedro Magalhães"
"[http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.libraries/9962 initiated a discussion] regarding splitting the SYB libraries out of the base package for GHC 6.10.",

Item
"The base library and GHC 6.10"
"Ian Lynagh"
"initiated a [http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.libraries/9929 discussion] on further splitting up the base package for GHC 6.10.",

Item
"Functional references"
"Tim Newsham"
"began a [http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/44098 discussion] on functional references and the possibility of merging the existing four or five implementations into something more standard.",

Item
"Types and Trees"
"Matt Morrow"
"[http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/44028 wrote something] about types and type representations, involving some commutative diagrams and some code. I haven't read it yet but it looks neat!",

Item
"Research language vs. professional language"
"Ryan Ingram"
"started an interesting [http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/43933 discussion] on the future direction(s) of the Haskell language.",

Item
"language proposal: ad-hoc overloading"
"Ryan Ingram"
"[http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/43897 proposed] adding ad-hoc name overloading to Haskell, prompting quite a bit of discussion.",

Item
"Top Level <-"
"Ashley Yakeley"
"originally [http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/16393 asked] whether there is any interest in implementing a top level \"<-\" to run monadic code. This set off a cascade of discussion the likes of which have been rarely seen on the Cafe. I would tell you what the discussion has been about but I must confess that I haven't read it."

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Jobs [

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Blogs   [

Post
"2008-09-06"
"Eric Kow (kowey)"
"darcs hacking sprint (25-26 October 2008)"
""
"http://koweycode.blogspot.com/2008/09/darcs-hacking-sprint-25-26-october-2008.html"
N,

Post
"2008-09-05"
"Magnus Therning"
"Confusion with HaskellDB"
""
"http://therning.org/magnus/archives/375"
N,

Post
"2008-09-05"
"Xmonad"
"xmonad 0.8 released!"
""
"http://xmonad.wordpress.com/2008/09/05/xmonad-08-released/"
N,

Post
"2008-09-05"
"Real-World Haskell"
"Speaking in Silicon Valley next week"
""
"http://www.realworldhaskell.org/blog/2008/09/05/speaking-in-silicon-valley-next-week/"
N,

Post
"2008-09-05"
"Luke Palmer"
"Composable Input for Fruit"
""
"http://luqui.org/blog/archives/2008/08/09/composable-input-for-fruit/"
N,

Post
"2008-09-05"
"Luke Palmer"
"Slicing open the belly of the IO monad in an alternate universe"
""
"http://luqui.org/blog/archives/2008/08/14/slicing-open-the-belly-of-the-io-monad-in-an-alternate-universe/"
N,

Post
"2008-09-04"
"\"FP Lunch\""
"Modular Monad Transformers"
""
"http://sneezy.cs.nott.ac.uk/fplunch/weblog/?p=111"
N,

Post
"2008-09-03"
"Douglas M. Auclair (geophf)"
"Fuzzy unification parser in Haskell"
""
"http://logicaltypes.blogspot.com/2008/09/fuzzy-unification-parser-in-haskell.html"
N,

Post
"2008-09-03"
"Bjoern Edstroem"
"Speeding up Haskell with C -- a very short introduction"
""
"http://blog.bjrn.se/2008/09/speeding-up-haskell-with-c-very-short.html"
N,

Post
"2008-09-03"
"Eric Kow (kowey)"
"darcs weekly news #2"
""
"http://koweycode.blogspot.com/2008/09/darcs-weekly-news-2.html"
N,

Post
"2008-09-03"
"Roman Cheplyaka"
"Physics and polyhedra"
""
"http://physics-dph.blogspot.com/2008/08/physics-and-polyhedra.html"
N,

Post
"2008-09-02"
"Well-Typed.Com"
"The new haskell.org community SPARC server is online"
""
"http://blog.well-typed.com/2008/09/the-new-haskellorg-community-sparc-server-is-online/"
N,

Post
"2008-09-02"
"Douglas M. Auclair (geophf)"
"A stream of primes as Comonad"
""
"http://logicaltypes.blogspot.com/2008/09/stream-of-primes-as-comonad.html"
N,

Post
"2008-09-01"
"Eric Kidd"
"Ubiquitous Hoogle"
"Eric shows how to integrate a [http://www.haskell.org/hoogle/ Hoogle] search command into [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Ubiquity Ubiquity]."
"http://www.randomhacks.net/articles/2008/09/01/ubiquitous-hoogle"
N,

Post
"2008-08-31"
"Dan Piponi (sigfpe)"
"Untangling with Continued Fractions: Part 3"
"The vector space monad and rational tangles."
"http://sigfpe.blogspot.com/2008/08/untangling-with-continued-fractions_31.html"
N

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Quotes  [

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"dons"
"maybe we should do a \"recommend RWH to a java programmer\" campaign :)",

Quote
"gwern"
"we fill fight them in the registers, we will fight them in the caches; we shall fight them in the core, and even in the backing store. And we shall never surrender!"

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