[三道贩子] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 110 - March 21, 2009

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Haskell Weekly News: Issue 110 - March 21, 2009
http://sequence.complete.org/hwn/20090321

Announcements
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  GHC 6.10.2 Release Candidate 1. Ian Lynagh [10]announced the [11]first
  release candidate for GHC 6.10.2. Please test as much as possible; bugs
  are much cheaper if we find them before the release!

  jhc 0.6.0 Haskell Compiler. John Meacham [12]announced the release of
  [13]jhc 0.6.0.

  Safe Lazy IO in Haskell. Nicolas Pouillard [14]announced the
  [15]safe-lazy-io package that provides special types and combinators
  for performing safe lazy I/O.

  game-tree - a library for searching game trees. Colin Paul Adams
  [16]announced [17]game-tree 0.1.0.0, which provides a class for dynamic
  game trees, and purely functional algorithms for searching them.

  random-shuffle package. Manlio Perillo [18]announced the availability
  of the [19]random-shuffle package, which is based on [20]Oleg's
  description.

  random-stream package. Manlio Perillo [21]announced the
  [22]random-stream package, which provides a portable interface for the
  operating system source of pseudo random data. Supported sources are
  Unix /dev/urandom, Win32 CryptGenRandom and OpenSSL pseudo random
  numbers generator.

  language-python. Bernie Pope [23]announced the [24]language-python
  package, which provides a parser (and lexer) for Python, written in
  Haskell. Currently it only supports version 3 of Python (the most
  recent version), but it will support version 2 in the future.

  Google Summer of Code. Malcolm Wallace [25]announced that haskell.org
  has once again been accepted as a mentoring organisation for the 2009
  Google Summer of Code. Student applications open on Monday (23rd March)
  at 1900 UTC, for a period of 12 days (until Fri 3rd April, also at 1900
  UTC). Students applicants are encouraged to interact with the community
  via mailing lists, prior, during, and after the submission of their
  ideas for projects. Because (sadly) the darcs community did not get
  accepted as a separate organisation this year, haskell.org will be
  willing to accept proposals relating to darcs.

  regex-tdfa-1.1.0. ChrisK [26]announced the release of
  [27]regex-tdfa-1.1.0. This version is a small performance update to the
  old regex-tdfa-1.0.0 version. Previously all text (e.g. ByteString)
  being search was converted to String and sent through a single engine;
  the new version uses a type class and SPECIALIZE pragmas to avoid
  converting to String. This should make adding support for searching
  other Char containers easy to do.

  Haskell on your system? Information wanted!. Don Stewart [28]announced
  that haskell.org now features links to wiki pages explaining how to
  obtain Haskell on windows, mac osx and linux and bsd. If you're a
  distro maintainer for these systems, please consider adding relevant
  pointers to the pages, so that users of these systems can find all the
  info they need.

  libffi 0.1 released. Remi Turk [29]announced the release of [30]libffi
  0.1, bindings to the C library libffi, allowing C functions to be
  called whose types are not known before run-time.

  Haskell Logo Voting has started!. Eelco Lempsink [31]announced that
  voting has begun to choose the new Haskell logo. All subscribed to
  haskell-cafe should have received a ballot; if you are not directly
  subscribed, you can still send ballot requests until the end of the
  competition (March 24, 12:00 UTC). Make sure the message contains
  'haskell logo voting ballot request' in the subject. A long discussion
  of what color to paint the bike shed and why this particular bike shed
  will not do for storing bikes ensued.

  The Monad.Reader (13). Wouter Swierstra [32]announced that a new issue
  of [33]The Monad.Reader, a quarterly magazine about functional
  programming, is now available. Issue 13 consists of the following four
  articles: "Rapid Prototyping in TEX" by Stephen Hicks; "The
  Typeclassopedia" by Brent Yorgey; a Real World Haskell book review by
  Chris Eidhof and Eelco Lempsink; and "Calculating Monads with Category
  Theory" by Derek Elkins.

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Quotes of the Week
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   * MiguelMitrofanov: The first glimpse of this [logo] vote scared me
      so much that I've closed the page, stopped the browser, and shut my
      computer down.

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