[Haskell-cafe] What to say about Haskell?

2009-07-14 Thread 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

Re: [Haskell-cafe] What to say about Haskell?

2009-07-14 Thread Thomas Davie
On 14 Jul 2009, at 15:30, Patai Gergely wrote: 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

Re: [Haskell-cafe] What to say about Haskell?

2009-07-14 Thread Magnus Therning
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Thomas Davietom.da...@gmail.com wrote: On 14 Jul 2009, at 15:30, Patai Gergely wrote: 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

Re: [Haskell-cafe] What to say about Haskell?

2009-07-14 Thread Cristiano Paris
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Thomas Davietom.da...@gmail.com wrote: On 14 Jul 2009, at 15:30, Patai Gergely wrote: 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

Re: [Haskell-cafe] What to say about Haskell?

2009-07-14 Thread Cristiano Paris
2009/7/14 Patai Gergely patai_gerg...@fastmail.fm: 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

Re: [Haskell-cafe] What to say about Haskell?

2009-07-14 Thread Andrew Wagner
http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Tying_the_Knot would seem to be relevant. On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Cristiano Paris fr...@theshire.org wrote: I would like to know them. I'm looking for small snippets of code that are elegant when written in Haskell (which is lazy by default) but

Re: [Haskell-cafe] What to say about Haskell?

2009-07-14 Thread Miguel Mitrofanov
Domain theory semantics, I guess. I know, that if I (or rather a younger copy of me, not knowing a thing about Haskell) would be one of your students, and you tell me that there is such a clean and nice semantics for what we are doing, I'd be excited. Patai Gergely wrote: Hello all, I was

Re: [Haskell-cafe] What to say about Haskell?

2009-07-14 Thread Magnus Therning
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Cristiano Parisfr...@theshire.org wrote: 2009/7/14 Patai Gergely patai_gerg...@fastmail.fm: 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

Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] What to say about Haskell?

2009-07-14 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Cristiano, Tuesday, July 14, 2009, 6:01:14 PM, you wrote: 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

Re: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] What to say about Haskell?

2009-07-14 Thread Cristiano Paris
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Bulat Ziganshinbulat.zigans...@gmail.com wrote: ... the question is how to justify this in 1 hour. technical people don't buy such arguments with justification. but if it will be done, it would be best presentation possible I think it's important to elaborate

Re: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] What to say about Haskell?

2009-07-14 Thread Cristiano Paris
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Cristiano Parisfr...@theshire.org wrote: ... Why don't we create a specific Wiki page about Haskell advocation, http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Advocation Cristiano ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list

Re: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] What to say about Haskell?

2009-07-14 Thread Max Cantor
Any chance of renaming it to Advocacy? On Jul 14, 2009, at 11:42 PM, Cristiano Paris wrote: On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Cristiano Parisfr...@theshire.org wrote: ... Why don't we create a specific Wiki page about Haskell advocation, http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Advocation Cristiano

Re: [Haskell-cafe] What to say about Haskell?

2009-07-14 Thread Don Stewart
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

Re: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] What to say about Haskell?

2009-07-14 Thread Patai Gergely
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 the question is how to

Re: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] What to say about Haskell?

2009-07-14 Thread Matthias Görgens
Dear Gergely, Okasaki's Purely Functional Data Structures is a treasure trove of interesting things to demonstrate Haskell on. Especially the data structures based on numerical representations (skew binary numbers and so on) appealed to my mathematical side. Matthias.

Re: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] What to say about Haskell?

2009-07-14 Thread Don Stewart
patai_gergely: 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 the