Re: [Haskell-cafe] OT: any haskell-friendly / functional programming friendly comp sci programs? (for a 30s guy who did his undergrad in liberal arts)

2007-02-05 Thread Kirsten Chevalier
On 2/5/07, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you are already a hacker then "the right kinds of people" to start a company with may not be the ones you find in a Masters or Bachelor comp-sci course. Different people have different views on this, of course. Yeah, actually, I have to agr

Re: [Haskell-cafe] OT: any haskell-friendly / functional programming friendly comp sci programs? (for a 30s guy who did his undergrad in liberal arts)

2007-02-05 Thread Paul Johnson
Thomas Hartman wrote: Part of my desire to return to school is that after encountering functional programming over the past year or so (first through lisp, then haskell), I've found something that I'm really interested in, but that it feels the amount of learning I can do around a job just won't

Re: [Haskell-cafe] OT: any haskell-friendly / functional programming friendly comp sci programs? (for a 30s guy who did his undergrad in liberal arts)

2007-02-05 Thread Doaitse Swierstra
I think our program will make you happy. Many of our courses are Haskell based: http://www.cs.uu.nl/wiki/Master/WebHome We assume some knowledge of FP as a prerequisite, but the program contains room for acquiring the necessary skills. I will be happy to answer any further questions you ma

Re: [Haskell-cafe] OT: any haskell-friendly / functional programming friendly comp sci programs? (for a 30s guy who did his undergrad in liberal arts)

2007-02-05 Thread Michael Vanier
FYI we teach and do a fair amount of functional programming here at Caltech. We have courses using scheme, ocaml, and haskell with more on the way. Mike Greg Fitzgerald wrote: Thomas, Here's a good place to start, although I'm not sure how up to date it is: http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Has

Re: [Haskell-cafe] OT: any haskell-friendly / functional programming friendly comp sci programs? (for a 30s guy who did his undergrad in liberal arts)

2007-02-05 Thread Björn Bringert
Thomas Hartman wrote: haskellers, I'm contemplating returning to school after a decade as a worker bee, and almost that long as a worker bee doing computer consulting / miscelaneous tech stuff. Ideally I'd like to get a masters, but I don't know if that's feasible this late in the game. If it's

Re: [Haskell-cafe] OT: any haskell-friendly / functional programming friendly comp sci programs? (for a 30s guy who did his undergrad in liberal arts)

2007-02-05 Thread Malcolm Wallace
"Thomas Hartman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Whether master's, bachelor's, or other, I am specifically interested > in programs that are "functional" friendly. You might find that Utrecht has something of interest, e.g. the Masters in Software Technology. http://www.cs.uu.nl/info/studie/mast

Re: [Haskell-cafe] OT: any haskell-friendly / functional programming friendly comp sci programs? (for a 30s guy who did his undergrad in liberal arts)

2007-02-05 Thread Greg Fitzgerald
Thomas, Here's a good place to start, although I'm not sure how up to date it is: http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_in_education I too am interested in an FP-related, higher education in California. Could you please send another post with whatever information you find? Thanks, Greg On 2

Re: [Haskell-cafe] OT: any haskell-friendly / functional programming friendly comp sci programs? (for a 30s guy who did his undergrad in liberal arts)

2007-02-05 Thread minh thu
2007/2/5, Thomas Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: haskellers, I'm contemplating returning to school after a decade as a worker bee, and almost that long as a worker bee doing computer consulting / miscelaneous tech stuff. Ideally I'd like to get a masters, but I don't know if that's feasible this la

[Haskell-cafe] OT: any haskell-friendly / functional programming friendly comp sci programs? (for a 30s guy who did his undergrad in liberal arts)

2007-02-05 Thread Thomas Hartman
haskellers, I'm contemplating returning to school after a decade as a worker bee, and almost that long as a worker bee doing computer consulting / miscelaneous tech stuff. Ideally I'd like to get a masters, but I don't know if that's feasible this late in the game. If it's not, I might settle for