Indeed! The Haskell School of expression was the second book I read on Haskell. I was very much inspired with it. Also by his ideas on building music from small parts with combinators for sequential and parallel composition. It seems to be a very simple idea. But the simplest ideas always are the hardest ones. And this model of music was stated with such a clarity. I haven't wrote my libraries without his ideas. I can remember this motto I saw in his slides
Sky is the limit This is the phrase I was saying to myself when I was stuck. We have a similar proverb in Russian also. we say it like this: Only stars are higher. I've got a lot of support from Paul though I've never met him in person. Thank you for all your labor, ideas and passion you have put into bringing arts and computer science closer to each other. Your work keeps living with us. Anton 2015-05-04 22:49 GMT+03:00 Hans Höglund <h...@hanshoglund.se>: > > 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 > -- Read the whole topic here: Haskell Art: http://lurk.org/r/topic/2Ks01FWAUxLKAR1jnjLqg9 To leave Haskell Art, email haskell-...@group.lurk.org with the following email subject: unsubscribe
