Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell in 3 Slides

Actually, I don't think it's a good idea to introduce monads on one of the 3-4 slides. While it *is* a core concept, it's not one of the advertising "bullet points"; and 1 slide is not enough to show what *use* monads are, let alone what they actually *are*. I'd probably suggest you to show something parallelism-related on that slide: for example, STM. Showing an "atomically do foo" and saying "And here, we atomically do foo" may turn out impressive :) And yes, of course HOF's. Also, on the Strong Typing slide, probably you could fit in an algebraic datatype and a smallish function over it in pattern-matched style. 2009/5/18 Joe Fredette :

While an incredibly small font is a clever option, a more serious suggestion may be as follows.

3-4 slides imply 3-4 topics, so the question is what are the 3-4 biggest topics in haskell? I would think they would be:

* Purity/Referential Transparency * Lazy Evaluation * Strong Typing + Type Classes * Monads

Assuming you have, say, 10-15 minutes for the talk, and the people there are versed with imperative programming and maybe have some experience in functional programming, you can probably jump over each of those slides in about a minute, just enough to touch the subject.

I also assume that you don't need to fit the whole presentation in 3-4 slides, if you do, then .... yah.

/Joe

David Leimbach wrote:

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Use an incredibly small font.

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 8:16 AM, John Van Enk mailto:vanenkj@gmail.com> wrote:

   Hi all,        I'm giving a presentation to an IEEE group on Embedded DSL's and    Haskell at the end of June. I need a 3 to 4 slide introduction to    Haskell. What suggestions does the community have? Is such a short    intro possible?        It just needs to introduce the basics so I can show some code    without alienating the audience. I'm hoping some one else has    attempted this before, but if not, some boiler plate slides could    be useful for every one!

   --    /jve

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