Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Propaganda needed

2012-01-14 Thread Don Stewart
Hey Victor, Thankfully, there's lots of material and experience reports available, along with code, for the Haskell+science use case. In my view Haskell works well as a coordination language, for organizing computation at a high level, and thanks to its excellent compiler and runtime, also works

[Haskell-cafe] Haskell Propaganda needed

2012-01-14 Thread Victor Miller
I'm a research mathematician at a research institute with a bunch of other mathematicians (a number of whom are also expert programmers). I recently (starting three months ago) have been learning Haskell. I'm going to give a talk to the staff about it. Most of the audience are pretty experienced