Editorial = Just "One day a Haskell n00b asked the master coder, \"Master, does (const 3 undefined) have the terminating nature, or not?\" The master replied, \"Of course.\" Cried the n00b, \"But that changes everything! Why did you not tell me this before?\" \"You never asked.\" Immediately, the n00b was enlightened.", Community [ ], Announce [ Item "Darcs hacking sprint" "Eric Kow" "[http://www.haskell.org//pipermail/haskell-cafe/2008-October/049775.html announced] that the [http://wiki.darcs.net/index.html/Sprints darcs hacking sprint] is taking place this weekend!", Item "Lambdabot 4.2.2" "Gwern Branwen" "[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/46842 announced] the release of [http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/lambdabot version 4.2.2 of lambdabot], the famous Haskell IRC bot. The new release has innumerable new features and bugfixes, trained suckling pigs, mermaids, etc.", Item "Autoproc Change of Maintainer (if you use procmail you should read this)" "Jason Dagit" "[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/46841 announced] that Gwern Branwen will be taking over the [http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/autoproc autoproc] project. Autoproc makes it quick and easy for Haskell programmers to make procmail recipes by using an embedded domain specific language. Once your recipes type check and compile, you simply run autoproc and it generates the corresponding procmail recipe.", Item "External Sort: Sort a 10-million integer file with just 256M of ram." "Thomas Hartman" "[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/46776 announced] the external-sort package. It implements an on-disk external sort algorithm in Haskell, which you can use to sort lists that will not fit in memory.", Item "IEEE-utils" "Sterling Clover" "[http://www.haskell.org//pipermail/haskell-cafe/2008-October/049760.html announced] the [http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/ieee-utils IEEE-utils] package, providing a number of bindings for anyone interested in doing hardcore floating-point programming.", Item "rewriting-0.1" "Thomas van Noort" "[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/46750 announced] the release of [http://www.cs.uu.nl/wiki/GenericProgramming/Rewriting rewriting], a generic rewriting library for regular datatypes. Features include generic rewriting machinery, generic traversals, and rewrite rules defined as values instead of functions.", Item "REMINDER: Haskell Communities and Activities Report" "Janis Voigtlaender" "[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/46696 reminded] everyone that the deadline for the November 2008 edition of the Haskell Communities and Activities Report (Friday, October 31) is approaching fast! If you haven't already, please write an entry for your new project, or update your old entry. For more information, see the original [http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell/2008-October/020651.html call for contributions].", Item "lhs2tex-1.14" "Andres Loeh" "[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/16538 announced] the release of [http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/lhs2tex lhs2TeX version 1.14], a a preprocessor to generate LaTeX code from literate Haskell sources.", Item "colour 0.0.0" "roconnor" "[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/16524 announced] an initial release of the [http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/colour colour] package. It is hoped that this library will become the standard colour library for Haskell." ], HaskellPrime [ ], Libraries [ ], Conferences Nothing [ ], Discussion [ Item "Hackage Improvement Ideas" "Jason Dagit" "[http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/46764 suggested] some improvements to Hackage and asked for others to contribute their ideas as well.", Item "Spine-lazy \"multiqueue\"" "Luke Palmer" "[http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/46710 asked] for help implementing an efficient spine-lazy multiqueue." ], Jobs [ Item "Functional programming job opening" "Simon Peyton-Jones" "[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/16511 announced] a [http://members.microsoft.com/careers/search/details.aspx?JobID=E29D3886-A152-4D95-873D-8890EFB683AD&start=1&interval=10&SortCol=DatePosted job opening] in functional programming at Microsoft. They are looking for \"an experienced software development engineer who has mastered C/C++ and/or C# development and is now learning or is already an expert using F# (or Haskell).\"" ], Blogs [ Post "2008-10-25" "Eric Kow (kowey)" "darcs hacking sprints - some pictures from Team Brighton" "" "http://koweycode.blogspot.com/2008/10/darcs-hacking-sprints-some-pictures.html" N, Post "2008-10-24" "Jason Dagit" "Understanding Darcs Commute" "" "http://blog.codersbase.com/2008/10/24/understanding-darcs-commute/" N, Post "2008-10-24" "Ketil Malde" "Optimization again: befuddled by bytestrings" "" "http://blog.malde.org/index.php/2008/10/24/optimization-again-befuddled-by-bytestrings/" N, Post "2008-10-23" "Creighton Hogg" "Revisiting old concepts" "" "http://abstractabsurd.blogspot.com/2008/10/revisiting-old-concepts.html" N, Post "2008-10-23" "Tupil" "On unit testing and type checking" "" "http://blog.tupil.com/on-unit-testing-and-type-checking/" N, Post "2008-10-23" "Eric Kow (kowey)" "darcs weekly news #9" "" "http://koweycode.blogspot.com/2008/10/darcs-weekly-news-9.html" N, Post "2008-10-22" "Creighton Hogg" "A serious problem" "Creighton with some straight talk about typeclass abuse." "http://abstractabsurd.blogspot.com/2008/10/serious-problem.html" N, Post "2008-10-22" "London Haskell Users Group" "Next meeting: Duncan Coutts on the Haskell Platform" "" "http://www.londonhug.net/2008/10/22/next-meeting-duncan-coutts-on-the-haskell-platform/" N, Post "2008-10-20" "Manuel M T Chakravarty" "Keep those cores busy!" "A comprehensive account of the full vectorisation transformation underlying the implementation of nested data parallelism in GHC." "http://justtesting.org/post/55387637" N, Post "2008-10-20" "Conal Elliott" "Simpler, more efficient, functional linear maps" "" "http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/conal/~3/425946113/" N, Post "2008-10-20" "Conal Elliott" "Vector space bases via type families" "" "http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/conal/~3/425935010/" N, Post "2008-10-19" "Luke Palmer" "I know what I'm going to get for christmas" "\"I believe I have found a truly marvelous implementation of FRP which this blog post is too short to contain.\"" "http://luqui.org/blog/archives/2008/10/19/i-know-what-im-going-to-get-for-christmas/" N, Post "2008-10-23" "Alberto Corona" "Axioms and properties for haskell classes" "Alberto demonstrates some code for adding checkable algebraic properties to type classes." "http://haskell-web.blogspot.com/2008/10/axioms-properties-for-haskell-classes.html" NP, Post "2008-10-18" "codeflow" "On Haskell and C++" "" "http://codeflow.wordpress.com/2008/10/18/on-haskell-and-c/" NP, Post "2008-10-13" "Falko" "Learning Haskell's Basics - Problems from Project Euler" "" "http://informatikr.wordpress.com/2008/10/13/learning-haskells-basics-problems-from-project-euler/" NP, Post "2008-10-17" "Simon Dobson" "Why Haskell will take over the world" "Simon has some thoughts on functional programming and the future of programming languages." "http://www.simondobson.org/?p=179" NP, Post "2008-10-20" "Sebastian Fischer" "Constrained Monadic Computations" "" "http://www-ps.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~sebf/projects/constraint-monad.html" NP ], Quotes [ Quote "vixey" "debugging code is admitting defeat", Quote "kaomoji" "[on #haskell] man, you guys are really nerdy", Quote "sclv" "I guess I'd believe the universe was lazy if the hubble looked at that stuff way at the edge of the big bang diaspora and when we magnified the picture we saw \"stack overflow\"", Quote "rwbarton" "relational calculus? \"DIFFERENTIATE TABLE users WITH RESPECT TO name\"", Quote "heatsink" "ban :: (BanContext no, UserIdentifer u) => u -> no u", Quote "rwbarton" "I tried typechecking the value of unwords (replicate 125 \"fmap\") in ghci once, and it consumed all my memory", Quote "ghc" "Step 3: Zonk the kinds" ], Commits [ ] -- vim: paste