Stable Grimoire 0.13 Released

Eric Sandall has announced another new Stable Grimoire release. You can check out all the details by reading the official announcement. There is a nice log of the changes from 0.12 and 0.13 listed below the announcement.

Incidentally, Grimoire Lead Eric Sandall has agreed to do an interview with Mage Power. It will be posted as soon as it is finished.
The Andrew Stitt interview has been postponed for now.

Purely Functional

Alexander Tsamutali is starting a new devel section for Haskell spells. If you are unfamiliar with Haskell, here is the definition from the official Haskell web site.

"Haskell is a general purpose, purely functional programming language featuring static typing, higher order functions, polymorphism, type classes, and monadic effects. Haskell compilers are freely available for almost any computer."

Haskell was born back in the 1980's. It has recently seen a big boom in popularity. Many programmers have mentioned that if you are interested in improving your programming skills, Haskell is a great language to learn. One of the creators of Haskell, Simon Peyton-Jones recently talked about the language at OSCON. The talks are very interesting, check them out. One of the latest books on Haskell is recommended as one of the best ways to learn it. The book is named Programming in Haskell by Graham Hutton. For more information visit the official Haskell web site.

New Sorcery Lead

Congratulations to Jaka "lynx" Kranjc. He is the new Sorcery Lead Developer for Source Mage GNU/Linux. The last Sorcery Lead, Andrew "afrayedknot" Stitt did such a great job, there were some mighty big shoes to fill at the position. Jaka has been with the distribution for about two years now and I'm positive he will fill those shoes nicely.

Sorcery is a set of scripts designed to manage all aspects of Sorcery Spells. With it, you can install/delete packages, which are compiled and installed on the fly. In short, Sorcery is the package manager of Source Mage GNU/Linux.