Also very saddened to hear these news. Professor Hudak's writing was what got me into Haskell and gave me courage to go on in my aim to combine music and functional programming in the first place. I was fortunate enough to get to meet him last year, when he was extremely generous and supportive despite being at the later stages of his illness. I hope the Haskell Art community, which might not exist without him, will thrive and continue to build upon his legacy.
Hans - https://twitter.com/hanshogl https://soundcloud.com/hanshoglund http://github.com/hanshoglund On 4 maj 2015, at 08:02, Stephen Tetley wrote: > It's very sad news that Paul Hudak has died. I remember pre-ordering > The Haskell School of Expression from my local Waterstones and being > genuinely excited about its arrival - here was a book that meshed both > functional programming and multimedia - wow!. As it happens college > work (and some confusion with Hugs) got in the way of me learning > Haskell and it was another three years before I read the book > properly. As a reference, it's been near the top of my pile > programming books ever since - the simple model of reactive functional > programming it presents is the most illustrative I've seen. > > Reading the notices for Paul's death was very sad but also heartening. > As I didn't know Paul personally (only through this list) I didn't > know had hard his continuing struggle with leukemia had been. I knew > he had treatment 5 years ago, but as he resumed work on Euterpea and > The Haskell School of Music and returned to generously contributing to > this list one hoped his treatment had gone well. But it was greatly > heartening that his generosity was was very large and not limited - he > clearly had made an exceptional contribution to Yale and the wider > academic world, not just as a researcher and co-creator of Haskell > (which we know about on here) but as Master of his college and an > inspiration to his students. > > Condolences to his family and friends. > > Stephen > > On 1 May 2015 at 21:33, alex <a...@slab.org> wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> Lets feel for the family and friends of Paul Hudak, who sadly died on >> Wednesday after a long battle with Leukemia. >> >> Paul has surely contributed more to the Haskell Art community than anyone, >> e.g. writing the Haskell School of Expression, the Haskell School of Music, >> Euterpea, his contributions to Functional Reactive Programming, in >> co-founding and chairing the ACM SIGPLAN workshop on Functional Art, Music, >> Modelling and Design, and of course in helping make Haskell itself in the >> first place. As a relative outsider to the Haskell community, I can only >> understate his achievements here, I hope no-one minds. >> >> I'll look forward to celebrating his life by reading, enjoying and >> benefiting from all he has left. >> >> Best wishes, >> >> alex >> -- >> >> Read the whole topic here: Haskell Art: >> http://lurk.org/r/topic/TLwToB0X1TBx3019CaeBt >> >> To leave Haskell Art, email haskell-...@group.lurk.org with the following >> email subject: unsubscribe > > -- > > Read the whole topic here: Haskell Art: > http://lurk.org/r/topic/2RGmdAnWcWHvYDX6cHlJnb > > To leave Haskell Art, email haskell-...@group.lurk.org with the following > email subject: unsubscribe -- Read the whole topic here: Haskell Art: http://lurk.org/r/topic/6Zcfv3tlbMNFZgB8T57y2B To leave Haskell Art, email haskell-...@group.lurk.org with the following email subject: unsubscribe
