Thanks to everyone who came to the talk last night, and of course Rick,
Scott and DJ for organising the session!
I've just posted slides up at:
http://www.slideshare.net/osfameron/is-haskell-an-acceptable-perl
Best,
Hakim / osfameron
On 12 April 2016 at 21:51, Rick Moynihan <[email protected]> wrote:
> This Monday (18th April @7pm) the Lambda Lounge is meeting with a
> presentation by Hakim Cassimally on how Haskell is an acceptable Perl.
>
> http://www.lambdalounge.org.uk/
>
> So, Haskell is "an advanced purely-functional programming language" which
> supports writing "declarative, statically typed code". It may be optimized
> for
> academic buzzwords you've never heard of but... is it any good for writing
> code
> in the way that you'd write Perl, Python, or Ruby?
>
> What are strong types, and why are we so frightened of them anyway? Can you
> develop interactively in Haskell, the way you would in a dynamic language?
> Does
> Haskell have "whipuptitude" (being able to get things done quickly) as
> well as
> "manipulexity" (being able to manipulate complex things)? And perhaps most
> importantly, can writing Haskell be *fun*?
>
>
> Rick.
>
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