2009/7/14 Patai Gergely
Hello all,
I was asked to give a one-hour 'introductory' seminar on Haskell. The audience is a bunch of very clever people with a wider than usual perspective on programming and mathematics, and my talk should be rather informational than evangelistic. Which topics do you think I should touch by all means given the short time?
When you create the presentation, please consider the big picture of Haskell, not only its technological features like laziness, curryfication, HOF, monadic syntax, type inference, type classes and so on. I would concentrate on the fact that when you use Haskell, you write code that is less prone to errors and bugs. When you write a program in Haskell and it finally compiles, chances are that there are far less bugs than in a program written in another language (I'm thinking about so popular dynamic languages like Python and Ruby): hunting for "semantic" errors is a significantly shorter task. This comes directly from the technological features I mentioned above: they are in the language for a purpose. My 2 cents. Cristiano