This Monday (18th April @7pm) the Lambda Lounge is meeting with a presentation by Hakim Cassimally on how Haskell is an acceptable Perl.
http://www.lambdalounge.org.uk/ So, Haskell is "an advanced purely-functional programming language" which supports writing "declarative, statically typed code". It may be optimized for academic buzzwords you've never heard of but... is it any good for writing code in the way that you'd write Perl, Python, or Ruby? What are strong types, and why are we so frightened of them anyway? Can you develop interactively in Haskell, the way you would in a dynamic language? Does Haskell have "whipuptitude" (being able to get things done quickly) as well as "manipulexity" (being able to manipulate complex things)? And perhaps most importantly, can writing Haskell be *fun*? Rick. -- -- To post: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] Feeds: http://groups.google.com/group/python-north-west/feeds More options: http://groups.google.com/group/python-north-west --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Python North-West" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
