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

The Monad.Reader Issue 2 was released May 2005.

Impure Thoughts 1 - Thtatic Compilathionth (without a lisp)

by Philippa Cowderoy

Eternal Compatibility In Theory

by Sven Moritz Hallberg

Fun with Linear Implicit Parameters

by Thomas Jäger

Haskore

by Bastiaan Zapf

Bzlib2 Binding - An Introduction to the FFI

by Peter Eriksen

The Monad.Reader Issue 3 was released June 2005.

Notes on Learning Haskell

by Graham Klyne

Functional Programming vs Object Oriented Programming

by Alistair Bayley

Concurrent and Distributed Programming with Join Hs

by Einar Karttunen

"Haskell School Of Expression": Review of The Haskell School of Expression

by Isaac Jones

Review of "Purely Functional Data Structures"

by Andrew Cooke

The Monad.Reader Issue 4 was released 5 July 2005.

Impure Thoughts 2, B&D not S&M (off-wiki)

by Philippa Cowderoy

Why Attribute Grammars Matter

by Wouter Swierstra

Solving Sudoku

by Dominic Fox

On Treaps And Randomization

by Jesper Louis Andersen

The Monad.Reader Issue 5 was released October 2005.

Haskell: A Very Different Language

by John Goerzen

Generating Polyominoes

by Dominic Fox

HRay:A Haskell ray tracer

by Kenneth Hoste

Number-parameterized types

by Oleg Kiselyov

A Practical Approach to Graph Manipulation

by Jean Philippe Bernardy

Software Testing With Haskell

by Shae Erisson

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.