Re: Haskell podcast

For  people, who still don't know it, FXSL is to a very large extent
an implementation of the Haskell's Prelude module.

In case you might be looking for a good book on Haskell, here is a
link to a beta-book that will be published in the next 2-3 months:

    http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/


Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev
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On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 6:17 AM, Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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 ?
>
> :)
>
>
> --
> Andrew Welch
> http://andrewjwelch.com
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>



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