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2007-08-07
OSCON Haskell Tutorial. Simon Peyton-Jones Appeared at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) in Portland, delivering a range of talks, including A Taste of Haskell, A Keynote on Functional Languages, Nested Data Parallelism and Transactional Memory for Concurrent Programming. Videos are available for most of these talks: A Taste of Haskell: Part 1, A Taste of Haskell: Part 2, slides for A Taste of Haskell, Transactional Memory for Concurrent Programming and the NDP talk at the London Hugs meeting.
hpodder 1.0. John Goerzen announced version 1.0.0 of hpodder, the command-line podcatcher (podcast downloader) that just happens to be written in everyone's favorite language. You can get it here. Version 1.0.0 sports a new mechanism for detecting and disabling feeds or episodes that repeatedly result in errors, updates to the Sqlite database schema, and several bugfixes.
encoding-0.1. Henning G�nther announced the release of 'encoding', a Haskell library to cope with many character encodings found on modern computers. At the moment it supports (much more is planned): ASCII, UTF-8, -16, -32, ISO 8859-* (alias latin-*), CP125* (windows codepages), KOI8-R, Bootstring (base for punycode)
Dimensional 0.6: Statically checked physical dimensions. Bj�rn Buckwalter announced a library providing data types for performing arithmetic with physical quantities and units. Information about the physical dimensions of the quantities/units is embedded in their types and the validity of operations is verified by the type checker at compile time. The boxing and unboxing of numerical values as quantities is done by multiplication and division with units.