Hi Simon, Thanks for link! I attended JAOO and there were some great talks on programminng langauges, I really enjoyed Guy Steele's introduction to Fortres and Eric Meijer's "Fundamentalist Functional Programming", as well as Anders Hejlsberg's talk, and there were also talks on Scala and F#. I've not been to that many confrences but I all the same I judged this to be a unusally high interester in programming languages for an industrial conference. I got a real fealing that people are much more read to look at "alterative" languages for their projects, I think this can only be good for haskell and the wider FP community in general. Thanks,Robert ---------------------------------------- From: Simon Peyton-Jones Sent: 09 October 2008 20:55 To: "haskell-cafe@haskell.org" Subject: [Haskell-cafe] Functional progarmming at JAOO Friends Anders Hejlsberg, the chief designer of C# and a very influential person at Microsoft, gave a keynote talk at JAOO Aarhus last week about "Where are programming languages going". Some of you may have mixed feelings about Microsoft but I thought you might still be interested in this talk because he gives a strong plug to functional programming (and F# in particular, although Haskell gets a mention). FP is one of the three major trends he identifies, the others being concurrency and dynamic languages. http://blip.tv/file/1317881 The FP section starts 22 mins in. Simon _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe