BA Haskell User Group meeting on July 14, 2010 (Wed)

[Ivan Tarasov]

Next BAHUG meeting will be held on Wednesday, July 14 at 7pm at Engine Yard (SOMA, San Francisco):

Engine Yard
500 Third Street, Suite 510
San Francisco, CA 94107

Contact cell (mine): 415-570-1669.
Host's phone (Larry's): 407-718-7665

At the last meeting it was decided that we need to get some better understanding of various monads and monad transformers. So we're going to have a discussion based on the following suggested reading:

• Excellent monads and monad transformers explanation in the “Real World Haskell” book, for those who are struggling with the concepts. The suggested reading order: ch.10, ch.14, ch.15, ch.18, plus ch.16 for an introduction to parsing monads. Also read the first chapters, if you need an introduction to Haskell.
  
• “All about monads” tutorial
• “LogicT — backtracking monad transformer with fair operations and pruning” (PDF preview, PDF) by Oleg Kiselyov, Chung-chieh Shan, Daniel P. Friedman, and Amr Sabry
  
• Dan Piponi's blog post “Grok Haskell Monad Transformers”

If you have some other useful links, please post them to the group.

Also, if we have some extra time, I can tell a little bit about ICFP Contest in which I participated last weekend, and where I wrote some Haskell code. I can give examples of the parsing code which I wrote, I'd was using Parsec, so it's relevant to our discussion of monads. We can also have a discussion of how monads (or similar concepts) fit into other programming languages.

Some people will be going from the South Bay (and probably East Bay) to the meeting and back, so there's a possibility of carpooling. Also, it's very easy to get to Engine Yard from the Caltrain station. Please send me a message if you need help figuring out transportation. If you can take some people from East/South Bay on your car to the meeting and back, please send a message to the baha...@googlegroups.com mailing list.

Please forward this email to those who may be interested in attending. If you plan to attend, please subscribe to BAHaskell Google Group <http://groups.google.com/group/bahaskell> to follow all the discussions related to this meeting.

Best regards,
Ivan

[Ivan Tarasov]

Another good paper to read about monad transformers is Martin Grabmüller's “Monad Transformers Step by Step” (PDF preview, PDF).

Ivan

[badri]

Monads for functional programming, by Philip Wadler.
homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/marktoberdorf/baastad.pdf

On Jun 26, 4:52 pm, Ivan Tarasov <ivan.tara...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Another good paper to read about monad transformers is Martin Grabmüller's
> “Monad Transformers Step by Step” (PDF

> preview<http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.grabmueller.de%2Fm...>,
> PDF <http://www.grabmueller.de/martin/www/pub/Transformers.pdf>).
>
> Ivan

>
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Ivan Tarasov <ivan.tara...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > Next BAHUG meeting will be held on Wednesday, July 14 at 7pm at Engine Yard
> > (SOMA, San Francisco):
>
> > Engine Yard
> > 500 Third Street, Suite 510
> > San Francisco, CA 94107
>
> > Contact cell (mine): 415-570-1669.
> > Host's phone (Larry's): 407-718-7665
> > At the last meeting it was decided that we need to get some better
> > understanding of various monads and monad transformers. So we're going to
> > have a discussion based on the following suggested reading:
>

> >    - Excellent monads and monad transformers explanation in the “Real
> >    World Haskell” book <http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/>, for those

> >    who are struggling with the concepts. The suggested reading order: ch.10,
> >    ch.14, ch.15, ch.18, plus ch.16 for an introduction to parsing monads. Also
> >    read the first chapters, if you need an introduction to Haskell.

> >    - “All about monads” tutorial<http://www.haskell.org/all_about_monads/html/index.html>
> >    - “LogicT — backtracking monad transformer with fair operations and
> >    pruning” <http://okmij.org/ftp/Computation/monads.html#LogicT> (PDF
> >    preview<http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fokmij.org%2Fftp%2Fpape...>,
> >    PDF <http://okmij.org/ftp/papers/LogicT.pdf>) by Oleg Kiselyov,

> >    Chung-chieh Shan, Daniel P. Friedman, and Amr Sabry

> >    - Dan Piponi's blog post “Grok Haskell Monad Transformers”<http://blog.sigfpe.com/2006/05/grok-haskell-monad-transformers.html>

>
> > If you have some other useful links, please post them to the group.
>
> > Also, if we have some extra time, I can tell a little bit about ICFP
> > Contest in which I participated last weekend, and where I wrote some Haskell
> > code. I can give examples of the parsing code which I wrote, I'd was using
> > Parsec, so it's relevant to our discussion of monads. We can also have a
> > discussion of how monads (or similar concepts) fit into other programming
> > languages.
>
> > Some people will be going from the South Bay (and probably East Bay) to the
> > meeting and back, so there's a possibility of carpooling. Also, it's very
> > easy to get to Engine Yard from the Caltrain station. Please send me a
> > message if you need help figuring out transportation. If you can take some
> > people from East/South Bay on your car to the meeting and back, please send
> > a message to the baha...@googlegroups.com mailing list.
>
> > Please forward this email to those who may be interested in attending. If
> > you plan to attend, please subscribe to BAHaskell Google Group <

> >http://groups.google.com/group/bahaskell<http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=http://groups.google.com/group/bahas...>>