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[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/14104 announced]
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[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/14193 announced] the integration of an automatic Haskell98 termination analyzer in the termination tool AProVE. The tool accepts full Haskell as specified in the Haskell 98 Report and is available through our web interface. [http://aprove.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/ More]
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the preliminary schedule of the Haskell Workshop 2006, part of the 2006 International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP)
  
 
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[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/13771 announced] preliminary D-Bus Haskell bindings. D-Bus is a message bus system, a simple way for applications to talk to one another. [http://neugierig.org/software/hdbus/ More]
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[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/14160 announced] that Sascha Boehme has done a project to implement the Reynolds/Wadler algorithm generating theorems from polymorphic types, plus simplifications and postprocessings for such free theorems. [http://haskell.as9x.info/ More info]
 
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was able to [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/14088 show] how that the GHC typechecker with multi-parameter typeclasses, functional dependencies, and undecidable instances is Turing-complete.
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[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/14149 announced] a short status report of the "Port Haddock to use GHC" Summer of Code project. The GHC modifications, are finished and will be included in the GHC head repository soon.
 
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[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/14087 announced] the first release of hpc, a new tool for Haskell developers. Hpc records and displays Haskell program coverage. It provides coverage information of two kinds: source coverage and boolean-control coverage. [http://www.galois.com/~andy/hpc-intro.html More here]
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[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/14148 released] AutoForms 0.2, a library to ease the creation of GUIs. It does this by using generic programming (SYB) to construct GUI components. [http://autoforms.sourceforge.net/ More info]
 
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[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/14086 described] a new generic programming technique, expressive enough to traverse a term and return another term of a different type, determined by the original term's type/structure. [http://okmij.org/ftp/Haskell/syb4.hs More details]
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[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/14133 announced] a new version of HSPClientside (0.2) ,developed as a GSoC project during this summer. HSPClientside is a Haskell Server Pages library for generating JavaScript code. [http://darcs.haskell.org/SoC/hsp.clientside/ More info]
 
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[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/14040 invite] comments towards the final version of their paper [http://homepages.cwi.nl/~ralf/gpce06/ Software Extension and Integration with Type Classes]
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[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/14132 Due to popular demand] the new SOE implementation based on Gtk2Hs is [now available]. The rendering quality is better than the original HGL version. [http://haskell.org/~duncan/gtk2hs/SOE-cairo.png Here's a side-by-side comparison]
 
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[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/14023 announced] a release of his Summer of Code project HSP.Clientside 0.01. Present features include an embedding of (typed) JavaScript language in Haskell, a small combinator library for generating JavaScript code, and high-level interface to Ajax functionality.
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[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/14131 announced] the results of his SoC project, the experimental Haskell debugger. [http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/GHC/GHCiDebugger More details]
 
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[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/14012 announced] that he had extended Martin Erwig's PFP library to support abstract monads, cabal and darcs
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[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/14129 released] a prototype tool that is similar in spirit, and in some of its workings, to QuickCheck. SmallCheck is, though, based on exhaustive testing in a bounded space of test values. [http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/smallcheck0.0.tar More info]
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[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/13983 have been writing] a paper, The History of Haskell, for the History Of Programming Languages conference (HOPL'07), and they invite feedback. Wiki page [http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/History_of_Haskell here].
  
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[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/13979 mentioned] that AngloHaskell will be held at Cambridge in August. The agenda includes beer, unicycles, hacking and other fun. [http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/AngloHaskell More info]
  
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[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/13924 announced] [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/13949 two] new versions of the Haskell XML Toolbox. New features include ghc 6.4.2 support, better XPath integration, separate documentation for filter API and an arrow API
  
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[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.libraries/4887 released] a new version of Takusen, a library for accessing DBMSs. The most significant code change is a new internal design, giving better separation of concerns like statement preparation, binding, and result-set processing. Takusen is now held in darcs, and [http://darcs.haskell.org/takusen hosted] at haskell.org
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[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/14128 released] Frisby, an implementation of the 'packrat' parsing algorithm, which parse PEG grammars and have a number of very useful qualities, they are a generalization of regexes in a sense that can parse everything in LL(k), LR(k), and more, including things that require unlimited lookahead, all in guaranteed linear time. [http://repetae.net/computer/frisby/ More information]
 
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[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.libraries/4977 announced] [http://sourceforge.net/projects/lazy-regex Text.Regex.Lazy] 0.44-0.70, with many enhancements. Multiple backends are supported, in addition to the "full lazy" and the DFA backends. Text.Regex.Lazy is a replacement and enhancement for Text.Regex. More details [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.libraries/5028 here]
  
 
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[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/14125 announced] that GHC now has a full-time support engineer, Ian Lynagh (aka Igloo on IRC). He'll be helping with all aspects of GHC, especially release management, bug diagnosis and tracking, documentation, packaging, and supporting other GHC hackers. Welcome Ian!
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Revision as of 09:01, 18 September 2006

2006-09-18

  • Haskell98 Termination Analyser . Stephan Swidersk announced the integration of an automatic Haskell98 termination analyzer in the termination tool AProVE. The tool accepts full Haskell as specified in the Haskell 98 Report and is available through our web interface. More

  • Free theorems . Janis Voigtlaender announced that Sascha Boehme has done a project to implement the Reynolds/Wadler algorithm generating theorems from polymorphic types, plus simplifications and postprocessings for such free theorems. More info

  • Haddock/GHC SoC . David Waern announced a short status report of the "Port Haddock to use GHC" Summer of Code project. The GHC modifications, are finished and will be included in the GHC head repository soon.

  • AutoForms release 0.2 . Mads Lindstr�m released AutoForms 0.2, a library to ease the creation of GUIs. It does this by using generic programming (SYB) to construct GUI components. More info

  • HSPClientside 0.2 . Joel Bj�rnson announced a new version of HSPClientside (0.2) ,developed as a GSoC project during this summer. HSPClientside is a Haskell Server Pages library for generating JavaScript code. More info

  • SOE implementation based on Gtk2Hs . Duncan Coutts Due to popular demand the new SOE implementation based on Gtk2Hs is [now available]. The rendering quality is better than the original HGL version. Here's a side-by-side comparison

  • The experimental GHCi debugger . Pepe announced the results of his SoC project, the experimental Haskell debugger. More details

  • SmallCheck . Colin Runciman released a prototype tool that is similar in spirit, and in some of its workings, to QuickCheck. SmallCheck is, though, based on exhaustive testing in a bounded space of test values. More info

  • Frisby: composable, linear time parser for arbitrary PEG grammers . John Meacham released Frisby, an implementation of the 'packrat' parsing algorithm, which parse PEG grammars and have a number of very useful qualities, they are a generalization of regexes in a sense that can parse everything in LL(k), LR(k), and more, including things that require unlimited lookahead, all in guaranteed linear time. More information

  • HaskellNet . Jun Mukai published a status report on the state of his SoC project, HaskellNet

  • GHC's new support engineer . Simon Marlow announced that GHC now has a full-time support engineer, Ian Lynagh (aka Igloo on IRC). He'll be helping with all aspects of GHC, especially release management, bug diagnosis and tracking, documentation, packaging, and supporting other GHC hackers. Welcome Ian!

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