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diff --git a/archives/20050809.txt b/archives/20050809.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..da4a8ed --- /dev/null +++ b/archives/20050809.txt @@ -0,0 +1,93 @@ + Haskell Weekly News: August 9, 2005 + + Greetings, and thanks for reading the second issue of HWN, a weekly + newsletter for the Haskell community. Each Tuesday, new editions will be + posted (as text) to [1]the Haskell mailing list and (as HTML) to [2]The + Haskell Sequence. + + 1. http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell + 2. http://sequence.complete.org/ + +Discussion + + Practical Monads. Paul Moore started a [3]discussion about Monads and + resources for learning about them. Quite a few readers responded with + suggestions. + + 3. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/7964 + + STRef vs. IORef. Srinivas Nedunuri started a [4]discussion by asking when + to STRef and when to use IORef. Iavor Diatchki posted a helpful + [5]example, and many other helpful answers were posted as well. + + 4. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/11895 + 5. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/11901 + + Parsing Foreign Languages. The The ParsingForeignLanguagesInHaskell wiki + page was the subject of a short [6]discussion on the libraries mailing + list. If you have any further information or would like to join or start a + project to parse a particular language, see the [7]wiki page. + + 6. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.libraries/3572 + 7. http://www.haskell.org/hawiki/ParsingForeignLanguagesInHaskell + +Haskell Toolchain + + Cabal was again a hot topic this week. There were discussions about + [8]data directories, [9]running on Windows 98, and [10]package description + fields in general. + + 8. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.libraries/3594 + 9. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.libraries/3575 + 10. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.libraries/3566 + +Darcs Corner + + Darcs in FreshMeat. David Roundy is [11]looking for volunteers to maintain + the Darcs [12]entry at FreshMeat.net. It wouldn't require much time, but + the ability to summarize changes at release time. + + 11. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.darcs.user/8034 + 12. http://freshmeat.net/projects/darcs/ + + Binary files and line endings. Phil Brooke [13]asked how darcs handles + line endings and binary files. + + 13. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.darcs.user/8017 + + Uniqueness of patch names. On #darcs this week, a discussion about the + uniqueness of low-level patch names in darcs. The consensus seemed to be + that darcs needs an additional better-than-1-second component to patch + names to eliminate a situation in which collisions can arise. + +New Releases + + * Simon Marlow announced the [14]release of Haddock version 0.7. + Highlights of this version include improvements for linking across + different packages, bug fixes, collapsable trees in HTML, and support + for new output formats. + * Einar Karttunen has released [15]hsgnutls 0.1, a Haskell binding for + the GnuTLS SSL/TLS library. + * John Goerzen [16]announced the release of a preliminary, but working, + binding to OpenLDAP from Haskell. + + 14. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/11903 + 15. http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/ekarttun/hsgnutls/ + 16. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/11932 + +Quotes of the Week + + "Oh Lord, bless this thy holy IO monad, and use it for thy + purposes that it may smash Java to tiny bits..." (with apologies to monty + python) + + If I ever write a GUI library for Haskell, I'm going to call + it pointlesstif. + +About Haskell Weekly News + + Want to continue reading HWN? Please help us create new editions of this + newsletter. Please see the [17]contributing information, or send stories + to hwn -at- complete -dot- org. There is also a Darcs repository available. + + 17. http://sequence.complete.org/hwn-contrib diff --git a/template.html b/template.html index 25ea68b..cd795b1 100644 --- a/template.html +++ b/template.html @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@

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