Haskell Weekly News: Issue 302

Welcome to issue 302 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers from August 3 to 16, 2014

Quotes of the Week

• alpha123: I don't think I have the gonads for monads. :(
• edwardk: There is nothing Natural about a Word.
• bernalex: I very often have to deal with people who think I'm pretentious for caring about what programming language I use. "it's just programming". lol.
  sopvop: I used to think the same
  sopvop: Then haskell corrupted me
  sopvop: Haskell is a ghetto

Top Reddit Stories

• ಠ_ಠ :: String -> a. From (hackage.haskell.org), scored 122 with 56 comments.
• An inspiring Haskell story: the green screen of FP. From (keera.co.uk), scored 120 with 13 comments.
• Haskell Platform 2014.2.0.0 is released. From (haskell.org), scored 117 with 56 comments.
• criterion 1.0: a major new release. From (serpentine.com), scored 110 with 13 comments.
• What’s a module system good for anyway?. From (blog.ezyang.com), scored 102 with 20 comments.
• Easy Haskell Profiling. From (danielvelkov.blogspot.com), scored 83 with 33 comments.
• Type Theory Podcast: Peter Dybjer on QuickCheck, verification, and semantics. From (typetheorypodcast.com), scored 57 with 21 comments.
• Fantasy World Haskell. From (self.haskell), scored 52 with 165 comments.
• Haskell for all: managed-1.0.0: A monad for managed resources. From (haskellforall.com), scored 51 with 10 comments.
• Announcing auto-update. From (yesodweb.com), scored 47 with 4 comments.
• Codeworld: An open-source educational programming environment using Haskell. From (github.com), scored 47 with 8 comments.
• PureScript By Example. From (leanpub.com), scored 46 with 25 comments.
• Lenses from the ground up. From (taylor.fausak.me), scored 45 with 43 comments.
• Algebraic Terraforming: Trees from Magma. From (fpcomplete.com), scored 42 with 22 comments.
• Denotational Design: from meanings to programs By Conal Elliott at BayHac (Video). From (youtube.com), scored 42 with 5 comments.
• Just LOOK at the humongous type that Hindley-Milner infers for this tiny program!. From (spacemanaki.com), scored 38 with 27 comments.
• Recommended Reading Material. From (reinh.com), scored 37 with 12 comments.
• (Monoidal) transducers are monoid homomorphisms. From (oleksandrmanzyuk.wordpress.com), scored 37 with 43 comments.
• λ Lessons: Pattern matching, first-class functions, and abstracting over recursion in Haskell. From (stevekrouse.github.io), scored 36 with 3 comments.

Top StackOverflow Questions

• What are the problems with an ADT encoding that associates types with data constructors? (Such as Scala.) votes: 41, answers: 1
• Why is Haskell missing “obvious” Typeclasses votes: 26, answers: 7
• Is there a way to elegantly represent this pattern in Haskell? votes: 22, answers: 6
• Why does Scala not have a return/unit function defined for each monad (in contrast to Haskell)? votes: 16, answers: 4
• How did Haskell add Turing-completeness to System F? votes: 15, answers: 1
• How to avoid superfluous variables in do notation? votes: 14, answers: 2

Until next time,
+Daniel Santa Cruz