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Haskell Platform 2011.2.0.1 is out -- major improvements for Mac users

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I've been tooling around with Haskell for a few months now, and since the beginning I've been impressed with the incredible amount of polish that goes into the official distribution.

Maybe my expectations of an 'academic', FP language were low, but the clean, navigable design of the site, and easy to use package manager, and respect for the idioms of the various platforms (DMGs and not tar.gz's for Mac OS) show a regard for aesthetic that that even the 'friendlier' languages like Ruby or Python should strive for.

Orders of magnitude better than this one: http://perl6.org

I am now blind. Thank you.

Perfect. My copy of Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! just arrived today.

Mine too. With stickers and stuff.

I've been reading it on my phone and laptop, but having a physical copy makes it easier to follow, navigate, make notes, etc.

Aw, stickers! Mine came earlier this week, but no stickers. Where'd you get the book from? I ordered from Amazon because I had a giftcard, but I guess I missed out on some sweet swag.

I ordered directly from No Starch Press and got stickers (and a manga postcard).

Same here. There was a discount code on the LYAHFGG site, and it included the physical book as well as an immediate download of the PDF.

Really a good deal. But the big point for me was the note that the author got more money that way, too.

Edit: plus manga card, and a 30% discount code.

I'm a sucker for paper+pdf+ebook bundles, which you can usually get from publishers but not Amazon or B/N. I also like that the author gets more.

It's great that No Starch is setting themselves up as the "quirky" compsci book publishers (this, Eloquent Javascript, Land of Lisp). Does anyone know if/when we can expect Learn You an Erlang for Great Good in paper form?

(I'm also amused to see that I'm not the only one who was almost more excited by the stickers than the book.[1])

[1] http://twitter.com/#!/telemachus/status/58983940987420673

So, does anyone have a photo of the stickers? Since I am in Europe, I still have to wait a few days ;).

Can anybody explain what the major improvements for Mac users are? The link is silent.

Yep, the GHC release notes describe some important bug fixes (particularly the XCode 4 issue affected a lot of users): http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.0.3/html/users_guide/release-7...

So now that we have https://github.com/kripken/emscripten and a reliable LLVM backend for GHC, has anyone tried compiling Haskell to JavaScript? My instinct is that the world would explode but I can't be sure.

It seems like they changed the following since the last version:

GHC 7.0.2 -> 7.0.3 and text 0.11.0.5 -> 0.11.0.6.

So this is a pure bugfix release, as the version number would indicate.

This is much appreciated. I made the mistake of deleting my XCode 3 installation when I installed 4, which ended up breaking GHC compilation. According to the changelog they've fixed that issue in this release.

Today is a good day.

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