Editorial = Nothing,

Community [

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Announce [

Item
"citeproc-hs"
"Andrea Rossato"
"[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/44471 announced] the first release of [http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/citeproc%2Dhs citeproc-hs], a Haskell implementation of the [http://xbiblio.sourceforge.net/csl/ Citation Style Language]. citeproc-hs adds a Bibtex-like citation and bibliographic formatting and generation facility to [http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/ Pandoc].",

Item
"Twidge"
"John Goerzen"
"[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/44453 announced] the release of [http://software.complete.org/twidge Twidge], a command-line Twitter and Identi.ca client.",

Item
"Real World HAppS: Cabalized, Self-Demoing HAppS Tutorial (Version 3)"
"Thomas Hartman"
"[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/44410 announced] a new version of [http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/happs-tutorial happs-tutorial], with a correspondingly updated [http://happstutorial.com:5001 online demo].",

Item
"generic list functions fixed"
"Jim Apple"
"reported that genericTake, genericDrop, and genericSplitAt have [http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2533 been fixed] so they are now total functions (they used to fail on negative integer inputs, unlike their ungeneric counterparts).",

Item
"The Monad.Reader (13) - Call for copy"
"Wouter Swierstra"
"[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/16420 announced] a call for copy for Issue 13 of the [http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/The_Monad.Reader Monad.Reader]. The deadline for submitting articles is February 13, 2009.",

Item
"Heads Up: code.haskell.org is upgrading to darcs 2"
"Duncan Coutts"
"[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/16419 announced] that /usr/bin/darcs on code.haskell.org will soon be upgraded to version 2. Most users should be unaffected as darcs 2 works just fine with repositories in darcs 1 format, and has been extensively tested for correctness."

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HaskellPrime [

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Libraries [

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Conferences 
Nothing
[ 

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Discussion [

Item
"packages and QuickCheck"
"Conal Elliott"
"[http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/44259 asked] what methods of organization people use to package up QuickCheck tests for their libraries.",

Item
"Hackage needs a theme song!"
"Jason Dagit"
"wrote a [http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/44450 theme song] for Hackage!"

],

Jobs [

Item
"Gamr7"
"Lionel Barret De Nazaris"
"[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/44211 announced] that [http://www.gamr7.com Gamr7], a startup in France focused on procedural city generation for the game and simulation market, is looking for a senior developer/technical director.",

Item
"senior role at Credit Suisse"
"Ganesh Sittampalam"
"[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/16422 announced] that [http://www.credit-suisse.com/ Credit Suisse] is seeking to recruit an expert in functional programming for a senior role in the Global Modelling and Analytics Group (GMAG) in the Securities Division."

],

Blogs   [

Post
"2008-09-13"
"Douglas M. Auclair (geophf)"
"What is declarative programming?"
""
"http://logicaltypes.blogspot.com/2008/09/what-is-declarative-programming.html"
N,

Post
"2008-09-13"
"John Goerzen (CosmicRay)"
"New Twitter Client: Twidge"
""
"http://changelog.complete.org/posts/752-New-Twitter-Client-Twidge.html"
N,

Post
"2008-09-11"
"Mark Jason Dominus"
"Return return"
"Mark's mind is blown by the code \"return return\" appearing in a paper by Mark Jones."
"http://blog.plover.com/prog/springschool95.html"
N,

Post
"2008-09-10"
"Eric Kow (kowey)"
"darcs weekly news #3"
""
"http://koweycode.blogspot.com/2008/09/darcs-weekly-news-3.html"
N,

Post
"2008-09-09"
"Ketil Malde"
"The FastQ file format for sequences"
""
"http://blog.malde.org/index.php/2008/09/09/the-fastq-file-format-for-sequences/"
N,

Post
"2008-09-06"
"James Cowie"
"Haskell! yes no?"
"James dives into learning some Haskell.  Verdict so far: a \"very nice language\"."
"http://www.jcowie.co.uk/2008/09/haskell-yes-no/"
NP,

Post
"2008-09-08"
"Nathan Sanders"
"Real World Haskell"
"Nathan experiments with porting some of his Python code to Haskell."
"http://sandersn.com/blog/index.php?title=real_world_haskell"
NP,

Post
"2008-09-08"
"Andrea Vezzosi (Saizan)"
"Results from GSoC"
"Andrea's GSoC work on a high-level dependency framework for Cabal is going to be released in a separate package for now, [http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/wiki/HBuild hbuild]."
"http://vezzosi.blogspot.com/2008/09/even-if-this-blog-has-been-silent-since.html"
N,

Post
"2008-09-07"
"Ricky Clarkson"
"An IRC Bot in Haskell, 20% code, 80% GRR"
"Ricky shares his experiences, frustrations, and eventual success writing a simple IRC bot in Haskell."
"http://rickyclarkson.blogspot.com/2008/09/irc-bot-in-haskell-20-code-80-grr.html"
NP,

Post
"2008-09-07"
"Yaakov Nemoy"
"Xmonad 0.8 released"
""
"http://loupgaroublond.blogspot.com/2008/09/xmonad-08-released.html"
NP,

Post
"2008-09-07"
"Luke Palmer"
"The problem with Coq"
"...is, according to Luke, that it doesn't have a nice graphical interface."
"http://luqui.org/blog/archives/2008/09/07/the-problem-with-coq/"
N

],

Quotes  [

Quote
"EvilTerran"
"this is hard to express in this type system. i'm going to make my own type system instead!"

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Commits [

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