Feel free to come!  At worst, some of the material will be incomprehensible (although I hope not), but you’ll get to meet an interesting bunch of people. 

Simon

From: haskell-cafe-bounces@haskell.org [mailto:haskell-cafe-bounces@haskell.org] On Behalf Of Chad Scherrer
Sent: 12 July 2006 18:58
To: haskell-cafe@haskell.org
Subject: [Haskell-cafe] Hackathon hesitation

Hi,

I'm interested in attending the Hackathon, but I don't have any previous experience working on compilers. I think it could be a great learning experience, but I certainly don't want to slow progress on any work by just hanging around asking questions. I'm a mathematician/statistician, and my programming experience is limited to high-level languages like Python, R, and Haskell. I can read C (sort of), but I've been too frustrated by the lack of high-level features to do anything useful with it. I've been using Haskell for about 2 years now (every chance I get), and I'm very interested in using it to allow high-performance (preferably parallel) code to be written at a very high level of abstraction.

Given this, does it seem there would be much I could help with?

Thanks,

Chad Scherrer

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