Editorial = Just "The [http://www.haskell.org/haskell-symposium/2009/ Haskell Symposium] was a great success, with many [http://www.haskell.org/haskell-symposium/2009/schedule.html interesting talks] and a good discussion on the future of Haskell. Watch this space for links to video from the Symposium as it becomes available!", Community [ ], Announce [ Item "HStringTemplate 0.6.2" "Sterling Clover" "[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/63108 announced] some new features in the [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/HStringTemplate HStringTemplate] library, including simple quasiquotation; proper Unicode support; creation of groups from hierarchies of directories; separators applied within iterated template application; depthwise chained iterated template application; generalized encoding functions; and more.", Item "fclabels-0.4.0 - First class accessor labels." "Sebastiaan Visser" "[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/63082 announced] a new release of the [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/fclabels fclabels] package, straight from ICFP in Edinburgh. The package provides first-class labels which act as fully composable, bidirectional record fields, as well as support for automatically generating them from record types.", Item "vty-4.0.0.1 released" "Corey O'Connor" "[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/63072 announced] release 4.0.0.1 of [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/vty vty], a terminal UI library. This release brings a number of important fixes, features, and performance enhancements, including a completely rewritten output backend; efficient, \"scanline rasterization\" style output span generator; terminfo based display terminal implementation; improved Unicode support; 256 color support; and more.", Item "haskell-src-exts-1.1.4" "Niklas Broberg" "[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/63068 announced] the release of [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/haskell-src-exts haskell-src-exts-1.1.4], a package for Haskell source code manipulation. The experimental code in Language.Haskell.Annotated{.*} has changed quite a lot, although the stable portion of the package interface has not changed. Significantly, the package now includes an exact-printer which allows round-tripping between parsing and pretty-printing to be the identity.", Item "Fwd: [BostonHaskell] Next meeting: September 16th at MIT (32G-882)" "Ravi Nanavati" "[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/63067 announced] the September meeting of the Boston Area Haskell Users' Group, to be held Wednesday, September 16th from 7pm - 9pm. As usual, it will be held in the MIT CSAIL Reading Room (32-G882, on the 8th floor of the Gates Tower of the MIT's Stata Center at 32 Vassar St in Cambridge, MA). The featured speaker will be Edward Kmett, who will be presenting the second part of his monoids and parsing presentation: \"A Parallel Parsing Trifecta: Iteratees, Parsec, and Monoids\".", Item "lenses -- Simple Functional Lenses" "Job Vranish" "[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/63059 announced] the release of [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/lenses lenses], a simple but powerful implementation of function lenses (aka functional references/accessors). This library provides a convenient way to access and update the elements of a structure. It is very similar to Data.Accessors, but simpler, a bit more generic and has fewer dependencies.", Item "Dutch HUG: meeting next week (September 11th) in Utrecht" "Tom Lokhorst" "[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/63000 invited] functional programmers in The Netherlands to the [http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Dutch_HUG Dutch Haskell User Group], meeting Friday, September 11 at 19:00 in the [http://www.uu.nl/EN/library/contact/university_library/zaalverhuur/Pages/default.aspx#booth Booth Hall] of the Utrecht University Library. Thomas (noknok) will be talking about his system for doing propositional logic in Haskell. Pedro will give an introductory talk about generic programming, and Sean will talk about xformat, a library for extensible and type-safe formatting with scanf- and printf-like functions. There is also still space for short 5-minute lighting talk about something related to Haskell or functional programming; contact Tom if you're interested.", Item "moe html combinator" "Jinjing Wang" "[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/62865 announced] the release of [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/moe moe], a DSL for generating HTML.", Item "jail-0.0.1 - Jailed IO monad" "Sebastiaan Visser" "[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/62839 announced] the first release of the [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/jail jail] package, a jailed IO monad that can restrict filesystem access for your code.", Item "scion 0.1" "Thomas Schilling" "[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/62820 announced] the first release of [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/scion Scion], a Haskell library that aims to implement those parts of a Haskell IDE which are independent of a particular front-end. Scion is based on the GHC API and Cabal. It provides both a Haskell API and a server for non-Haskell clients such as Emacs and Vim." ], HaskellPrime [ ], Libraries [ ], Conferences Nothing [ ], Discussion [ ], Jobs [ ], Blogs [ Post "2009-09-05" "Don Stewart (dons)" "DEFUN 2009: Multicore Programming in Haskell Now!" "" "http://donsbot.wordpress.com/2009/09/05/defun-2009-multicore-programming-in-haskell-now/" N, Post "2009-09-04" "Bryan O'Sullivan" "Slides from my CUFP 2009 keynote talk" "" "http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2009/09/04/slides-from-my-cufp-2009-keynote-talk/" N, Post "2009-09-04" "LHC Team" "Yet another unfair benchmark." "" "http://lhc-compiler.blogspot.com/2009/09/yet-another-unfair-benchmark.html" N, Post "2009-09-04" "Alex McLean" "Hackpact documentation" "" "http://yaxu.org/hackpact-documentation/" N, Post "2009-09-03" "Don Stewart (dons)" "Parallel Programming in Haskell: A Reading List" "" "http://donsbot.wordpress.com/2009/09/03/parallel-programming-in-haskell-a-reading-list/" N, Post "2009-09-02" "David Amos" "Finite fields, part 2" "" "http://haskellformaths.blogspot.com/2009/09/finite-fields-part-2.html" N, Post "2009-09-01" "apfelmus" "Fun with Morse Code" "" "http://apfelmus.nfshost.com/fun-with-morse-code.html" N, Post "2009-09-01" "Ketil Malde" "Parsing ints" "" "http://blog.malde.org/index.php/2009/08/31/parsing-ints/" N, Post "2009-09-01" "Alex McLean" "Hackpact" "" "http://yaxu.org/hackpact/" N, Post "2009-08-31" "Greg Bacon" "Finding duplicates with Perl and Haskell" "" "http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gbacon/~3/aaZePz6Gv2Q/finding-duplicates-with-perl-and.html" N, Post "2009-08-31" "Colin Adams" "Selecting software for a replacement for this website" "" "http://colina.demon.co.uk/?q=node/753" N, Post "2009-08-30" "Don Stewart (dons)" "Haskell Popularity Rankings: September 2009" "" "http://donsbot.wordpress.com/2009/08/29/haskell-popularity-rankings-september-2009/" N, Post "2009-09-02" "Jeff Foster" "Debugging in Haskell" "" "http://www.fatvat.co.uk/2009/09/debugging-in-haskell.html" NP, Post "2009-09-04" "Jeff Foster" "Exploring Haskell's List Functions" "" "http://www.fatvat.co.uk/2009/09/exploring-haskells-list-functions.html" NP, Post "2009-08-27" "David Amos" "Extension fields" "" "http://haskellformaths.blogspot.com/2009/08/extension-fields.html" N, Post "2009-08-26" "Magnus Therning" "Trying to work out iteratees" "" "http://therning.org/magnus/archives/735" N, Post "2009-08-28" "Jeff Heard" "HDR imaging library for Haskell based on pfsutils" "" "http://vis.renci.org/jeff/2009/08/28/hdr-imaging-library-for-haskell-based-on-pfsutils/" N, Post "2009-08-29" "Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson" "[Stanford] MATH 198: Category Theory and Functional Programming" "" "http://blog.mikael.johanssons.org/archive/2009/08/stanford-math-198-category-theory-and-functional-programming/" N ], Quotes [ Quote "benmachine" "ho hum. I understand both your positions. but i don't understand mine, now :(", Quote "ksf" "agda is actually a secret mindwar-weapon of the illuminati, who want to wrack your nerves with excessively big symbol sets requiring a keyboard with 10 modifier keys. just like APL.", Quote "Axman6" "does anyone else think that C++ looks like a dead fish? (C++<)", Quote "Cale" "The difference between Many Worlds and Copenhagen is a garbage collector ;)", Quote "apfelmus" "Lambda Fu, form 72 - three way dragon zip: 'averages3 xs = zipWith3 avg xs (drop 1 xs) (drop 2 xs); where avg a b c = (a+b+c) / 3'" ], Commits [ ] -- vim: paste