Thanks Yves for your advice. And I agree with you that too much laziness may be mind-blowing for most of the audience, yet this is one of the characteristics of Haskell, whether or not we like it and whatever troubles it can induce.
I really think the knapsack is simple, not too far away from real world and might be demonstrated with live code in 5 minutes. I will have a look anyway at more "spectacular" stuff like gloss or yesod but I fear this is out of scope. Regards, Arnaud On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 12:27 PM, Yves Parès <yves.pa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Nevermind, I think I found: > http://jduchess.org/duchess-france/blog/battle-language-a-la-marmite/ > > You could try the JSON parser exercise. ( > https://github.com/revence27/JSON-hs) Or anything else with Parsec, it's > a pretty good power-showing library. > > > 2012/2/28 Yves Parès <yves.pa...@gmail.com> > >> Where exactly does that event take place? >> Is it open to public? >> >> And I strongly disadvise fibonacci, quicksort and other mind-blowing >> reality-escapist stuff. Show something real world and practical. >> >> 2012/2/27 Arnaud Bailly <arnaud.oq...@gmail.com> >> >>> Hello Cafe, >>> >>> I will be (re)presenting Haskell in a "Batlle Language" event Wednesday >>> evening: A fun and interactive contest where various programming language >>> champions try to attract as much followers as possible in 5 minutes. >>> >>> Having successfully experimented the power of live coding in a recent >>> Haskell introduction for the Paris Scala User Group, I would like to do the >>> same but given the time frame I need a simpler example than the music >>> synthesizer program. >>> >>> So I would like to tap in the collective wisdom looking for some >>> concise, eye-opening, mind-shaking and if possible fun example of what one >>> can achieve in Haskell. Things that sprung to my mind are rather dull: >>> prime factors, fibonacci numbers. >>> >>> Thanks in advance, >>> Arnaud >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Haskell-Cafe mailing list >>> Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org >>> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >>> >>> >> >
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