Greetings, and thanks for reading the 15th issue of HWN, a weekly newsletter for the Haskell community. Each Tuesday, new editions will be posted (as text) to the Haskell mailing list and (as HTML) to The Haskell Sequence.
Making Haskell more open. Simon Peyton-Jones began a long thread with some ideas about making Haskell more open to the wider community. The thread is too long to completely summarize here, and branched out in several directions, including a discussion of the haskell.org homepage.
Haskell users survey. John Hughes wrote about a web-based survey about Haskell. He is encouraging everyone with an interest in Haskell to participate.
Darcs 1.0.4 was released this week. There are quite a few performance improvements, a new posthook option, manifest feature, new "darcs put" command, more git support, and various bugfixes.
"Impossible things are delayed immediately. Miracles may take a little longer." -- Claus Reinke on haskell-cafe.
Yes, it's late again. But, while I am no Zaphod Beeblebrox, carry no towel, have no Improbability Drive, and certainly couldn't have come up with 42 on my own, if Douglas Adam's "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe" series can still be called a trilogy, then HWN can still be called weekly :-)
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