On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:41:49 +0000, Simon Peyton-Jones
PS: To get your imagination going, here are a couple of (strongly-contrasting) past essays: * Dan Grossman "The transactional memory / garbage collection analogy" http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/djg/papers/analogy_oopsla07.pdf * Dick Gabriel "Designed as designer" http://dreamsongs.org/DesignedAsDesigner.html
One other sample essay mentioned, which I personally find to be quite useful, is the following: * Friedrich Steimann "The paradoxical success of aspect-oriented programming" http://onward-conference.org/files/steimannessay.pdf Although not specifically related to Haskell or functional programming, it discusses an apparent paradox in a different programming paradigm, which could be useful when discussing functional paradigm-related issues pertaining to Haskell. -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benjamin L. Russell / DekuDekuplex at Yahoo dot com http://dekudekuplex.wordpress.com/ Translator/Interpreter / Mobile: +011 81 80-3603-6725 "Furuike ya, kawazu tobikomu mizu no oto." -- Matsuo Basho^