Haskell Weekly News: busy, busy, busy! Sun sponsorship, beginners community, zippers, parallel...

reddit.com     Jul 24, 2008            

Submitted by byorgey on Wed, 07/23/2008 - 2:30pm. Welcome to issue 78 of HWN, a newsletter covering developments in the Haskell community. Issue 78: In Which Michi and Neil Become Doctors, Sun Donates Some Sweet Loot, and Jules Is Revealed To Be A Helpful Anthropomorphic Robot Community News Congratulations are in order this week to two members of the community who have completed PhDs. Neil Mitchell (ndm) passed his PhD viva last week, subject to minor corrections. Mikael Johansson (Syzygy-) has also completed his PhD and will soon be starting a postdoc at Stanford with the topology in computer science working group. Congratulations, Drs. Mitchell and Johansson! Announcements rosezipper. Eric Kow (kowey) announced the release of rosezipper, Krasimir Angelov and Iavor S. Diatchki's Data.Tree implementation of zippers.... [read full story]                    

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Sun Microsystems funding Haskell on multicore OpenSPARC!

reddit.com     Jul 23, 2008          

The latest generation of multi-core machines pose a number of problems for traditional languages and parallel programming techniques. Memory latency is a performance bottleneck for Haskell code because the execution model uses...                    

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T5120 donated to Haskell Community

sun.com     Jul 25, 2008          

I just spotted on Darryl Gove's blog that Sun has donated a T5120 to the Haskell community. Fantastic. The goal is investigate how GHC (The Glasgow Haskell Compiler) can take advantage of the CMT architecture of the T5120. Ah...                    

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