Hopefully! Do suggest it to the OSCON organisers: the one I'm in touch with is Vee McMillen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Simon | -----Original Message----- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of | Taillefer, Troy (EXP) | Sent: 16 April 2007 15:08 | To: Simon Peyton-Jones; haskell-cafe@haskell.org | Subject: RE: [Haskell-cafe] Tutorial on Haskell | | Simon, | | Hopefully a video of this tutorial would be made available as a learning | resource for those of use who can't make it to this Convention. | | Troy | | | -----Original Message----- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Simon | Peyton-Jones | Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 4:34 AM | To: haskell-cafe@haskell.org | Subject: [Haskell-cafe] Tutorial on Haskell | | Friends | | I have agreed to give a 3-hr tutorial on Haskell at the Open Source | Convention 2007 | http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2007/ | | I'm quite excited about this: it is a great opportunity to expose | Haskell to a bunch of smart folk, many of whom won't know much about | Haskell. My guess is that they'll be Linux/Perl/Ruby types, and they'll | be practitioners rather than pointy-headed academics. | | One possibility is to do a tutorial along the lines of "here's how to | reverse a list", "here's what a type is" etc; you know the kind of | thing. But instead, I'd prefer to show them programs that they might | consider *useful* rather than cute, and introduce the language along the | way, as it were. | | So this message is to ask you for your advice. Many of you are exactly | the kind of folk that come to OSCON --- except that you know Haskell. | So help me out: | | Suggest concrete examples of programs that are | * small | * useful | * demonstrate Haskell's power | * preferably something that might be a bit | tricky in another language | | For example, a possible unifying theme would be this: | http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Simple_unix_tools | | Another might be Don's cpu-scaling example | http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/blog/2007/03/10 | | But there must be lots of others. For example, there are lots in the | blog entries that Don collects for the Haskell Weekly Newsletter. But | I'd like to use you as a filter: tell me your favourites, the examples | you find compelling. (It doesn't have to be *your* program... a URL to | a great blog entry is just fine.) Of course I'll give credit to the | author. | | Remember, the goal is _not_ "explain monads". It's "Haskell is a great | way to Get The Job Done". | | Thanks! | | Simon | _______________________________________________ | Haskell-Cafe mailing list | Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org | http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe | _______________________________________________ | Haskell-Cafe mailing list | Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org | http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
