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"We propose an extension to list comprehensions that makes it easy to express the kind of queries one would write in SQL using ORDER BY, GROUP BY, and LIMIT."

"a natural transformation transforms (F a) into (G a) without looking at the a's."

builds on the Software Simply HAppS intro.

"When creating Haskell bindings for a C library one will sooner or later have to deal with 'structs'. Let's look at how it can be done using hsc2hs."

guy describes his ordeal of getting a haskell web app running on a budget host -- including setting up a vbox model of the host for building and bootstrapping modern ghc with ancient ghc on the vbox. gah.

O'Reilly book about haskell (in development)

"a technique for transforming a computation of one type into a worker of a different type, together with a wrapper that acts as an impedance matcher between the original and new computations." worker can have better data structures -> faster.

remarkably clear explanation of the fixed-point combinator in haskell

including: fix, hxt arrows, forward constraint propagation, strictness flags, STArray, Cont monad examples, random numbers, and more.