Haskell podcast

There's a podcast about Haskell that might be interesting for people
on this list:

http://www.se-radio.net/podcast/2008-08/episode-108-simon-peyton-jones-functional-programming-and-haskell

It covers things like side effects, tail recursion, higher order
functions, memoization, monads etc.

One thing in particular was the way he describes the difference
between variables in functional languages and imperative languages: in
languages like XSLT the variable is the actual variable, whereas in
imperative languages it's the reference to the value that gets
changed.  It's a neater way of explaining it rather than the usual "x
= x + 1" argument, I think.

One other thing - towards the end he talks about how interest in
Haskell was fairly low and static for most of its life, but then has
grown rapidly in the last 10 years and he's not too sure why...  How
old is XSLT ?

:)


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