{"id":353,"date":"2007-08-09T22:01:08","date_gmt":"2007-08-10T05:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/?p=353"},"modified":"2015-02-01T21:52:02","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T05:52:02","slug":"haskell-the-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/?p=353","title":{"rendered":"Haskell &#8211; the videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re one of the approx 3 people left in the world who:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>knows about functional programming<\/li>\n<li>has not yet seen <a href=\"http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/~simonpj\/\">Simon Peyton Jones<\/a>&#8216; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jLj1QV11o9g\">&#8220;A Taste of Haskell&#8221; talks<\/a> from OSCON 2007<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I suggest you get over there. It&#8217;s quite long, and it gets a bit difficult to follow without slides around 30 minutes into part 2, but it&#8217;s well worth watching. SPJ is an entertaining presenter, partly at least because he seems to be a bit of a stereotypical university lecturer type: very enthusiastic, clearly a towering intellect in the FP world, but on the other hand seems to bumble his way through the business of actually using computers!<\/p>\n<p>If he&#8217;d been my lecturer back in the day, perhaps I&#8217;d have appreciated functional programming a bit more (&#8220;To do that, you&#8217;d have to solve the halting problem&#8230; so&#8230; it&#8217;s tricky.&#8221;).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re one of the approx 3 people left in the world who: knows about functional programming has not yet seen Simon Peyton Jones&#8216; &#8220;A Taste of Haskell&#8221; talks from OSCON 2007 I suggest you get over there. It&#8217;s quite long, and it gets a bit difficult to follow without&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-haskell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":950,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions\/950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}