On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Cristiano Paris<fr...@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 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.
And maybe adding that Haskell seems to make it easy to concentrate on data flow rather than control flow. /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
