It would be nice to know of a school somewhere in the US or Canada where CS courses aren't taught mostly in Java. Is there such a place? I would love to find a school with strengths in FP and linguistics. Feeling as though this will be impossible keeps me more focused on applying to theoretical linguistics departments and figuring that I'll just have to use text books and the Internet for the computational component, which will probably mean I'll get ok in linguistics but not as good as I would like to be with FP. Human interactions, outside expectations and having some type of mentor are so important. Learning more Java seems like such a waste of mental energy and time. I mean a theoretical linguist steeped in minimalism would never just hand over their future education to connectionists. Even if they discover new things about language, they won't be focusing on the ideas that they really wanted to build their strength in. Why is Java considered such a great educational language anyway? It seems great for making cubicle warmers but the future employment of students seems like it should be the least concern for people who's focus is ideas and discovery. I guess this sounds a little frustrated? Does anyone have any suggestions? Kansas University in Lawrence looks to have a lot of Haskell activity (maybe not in courses) and a good looking linguistics department. This might be helpful to Zhi-Qiang Lei: http://www.ittc.ku.edu/csdl/fpg/Home On 10/26/2011 09:04 AM, Brent Yorgey wrote:
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 01:56:05PM +0800, Zhi-Qiang Lei wrote:
Hi,
I'm making a plan to gain more computer knowledge (functional programming and Haskell especially) and a Master's degree in a university. Does anybody know which university in USA has good resources in this domain? Thanks.
The University of Pennsylvania has a good masters' degree program and a great programming languages group -- although they are not really connected (you would not get to study a whole lot of FP stuff while doing the masters' degree). But of course you could come to the PL group meetings.
-Brent
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