Lennart Augustsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Jan 29, 2007, at 03:01 , Alexy Khrabrov wrote: > > > How do people stumble on Haskell? > > Well, I didn't really stumble on it. I was at the 1987 meeting > when we decided to define Haskell. > > But I stumbled on functional programming in the first place. > I had to learn it because it was part of a course in denotational > semantics.
OK, if we old lags are going to give our excuses... I was a member of an undergraduate society in Cambridge called the Processor Group. I went along to a talk that Arthur Norman gave to them (must have been 1980±1?) in which he described (S, K, I) combinators and his plans for the SKI Machine (SKIM). The fact that S and K on their own gave a complete computational basis was the most exciting piece of computer science I'd encountered at that point and I just had to follow it up. So some years later I ended up at that same 1987 meeting. -- Jón Fairbairn [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
