Re: [Haskell-cafe] What to say about Haskell?

2009-07-14 Thread Thomas Davie
On 14 Jul 2009, at 15:30, Patai Gergely wrote: 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

Re: [Haskell-cafe] What to say about Haskell?

2009-07-14 Thread Magnus Therning
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Thomas Davietom.da...@gmail.com wrote: On 14 Jul 2009, at 15:30, Patai Gergely wrote: 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

Re: [Haskell-cafe] What to say about Haskell?

2009-07-14 Thread Cristiano Paris
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Thomas Davietom.da...@gmail.com wrote: On 14 Jul 2009, at 15:30, Patai Gergely wrote: 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

Re: [Haskell-cafe] What to say about Haskell?

2009-07-14 Thread Cristiano Paris
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

Re: [Haskell-cafe] What to say about Haskell?

2009-07-14 Thread Andrew Wagner
http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Tying_the_Knot would seem to be relevant. On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Cristiano Paris fr...@theshire.org wrote: I would like to know them. I'm looking for small snippets of code that are elegant when written in Haskell (which is lazy by default) but

Re: [Haskell-cafe] What to say about Haskell?

2009-07-14 Thread Miguel Mitrofanov
Domain theory semantics, I guess. I know, that if I (or rather a younger copy of me, not knowing a thing about Haskell) would be one of your students, and you tell me that there is such a clean and nice semantics for what we are doing, I'd be excited. Patai Gergely wrote: Hello all, I was

Re: [Haskell-cafe] What to say about Haskell?

2009-07-14 Thread Magnus Therning
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Cristiano Parisfr...@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

Re: [Haskell-cafe] What to say about Haskell?

2009-07-14 Thread Don Stewart
patai_gergely: 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