The Monad.Reader

The Monad.Reader is an electronic magazine about all things Haskell. It is less formal than journal, but somehow more enduring than a wiki-page. There have been a wide variety of articles, including: exciting code fragments, intriguing puzzles, book reviews, tutorials, and even half-baked research ideas.

Latest Issue

The Monad.Reader Issue 10 is now available:

Step inside the GHCi debugger

Bernie Pope

Evaluating Haskell in Haskell

Matthew Naylor

Feel free to browse the source files [1]. You can check out the entire repository using darcs:

darcs get http://sneezy.cs.nott.ac.uk/darcs/TMR/Issue10/

The source code and LaTeX files have all been released under a BSD-style license.

I'd welcome any discussion and feedback on the Talk page.

Previous editions

The Monad.Reader Issue 1 was released on March 1, 2005.

Pseudocode: Natural Style

Andrew J. Bromage

Pugs Apocryphon 1 - Overview of the Pugs project

Autrijus Tang

An Introduction to Gtk2Hs, a Haskell GUI Library

Kenneth Hoste

Implementing Web-Services with the HAIFA Framework

Simon D. Foster

Code Probe - Issue one: Haskell XML-RPC, v.2004-06-17 [1]

Sven Moritz Hallberg

Issues 2 through 5 can be found on the special tmrwiki – they haven't been included here for licensing reasons. I hope to move over most of the content soon.

The Monad.Reader Issue 6 was released January 31, 2007.

Getting a Fix from the Right Fold

Bernie Pope

Adventures in Classical-Land

Dan Piponi

Assembly: Circular Programming with Recursive do

Russell O'Connor

The Monad.Reader Issue 7 was released April 30, 2007.

A Recipe for controlling Lego using Lava

Matthew Naylor

Caml Trading: Experiences in Functional Programming on Wall Street

Yaron Minsky

Book Review: “Programming in Haskell” by Graham Hutton

Duncan Coutts

Yhc.Core – from Haskell to Core

Dimitry Golubovsky, Neil Mitchell, Matthew Naylor

The Monad.Reader Issue 8 was released on September 10, 2007.

Generating Multiset Partitions

Brent Yorgey

Type-Level Instant Insanity

Conrad Parker

The Monad.Reader Issue 9, the Summer of Code special, is was released on November 19, 2007.

Cabal Configurations

Thomas Schilling

Darcs Patch Theory

Jason Dagit

TaiChi: how to check your types with serenity

Mathieu Boespflug

Contributing

If you're interested in writing something for The Monad.Reader, please download the instructions for authors. You can also check out the most recent version from the darcs repository at http://sneezy.cs.nott.ac.uk/darcs/TMR/Guidelines.

The deadline for Issue 11 is August 1, 2008.

Feel free to contact Wouter Swierstra with any questions.

Merchandise

You can buy The Monad.Reader t-shirts and merchandise from Cafepress.

The name

The name is a pun, I'm afraid. A magazine is sometimes also referred to as a "reader". The articles are not necessarily about monads.