Simon Peyton-Jones: Escape from the ivory tower: the Haskell journey

Churchill College, University of Cambridge April 25, 2017
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Churchill College's annual Computer Science lecture. In this talk Simon discusses Haskell’s birth and evolution, including some of the research and engineering challenges he faced in design and implementation. Focusing particularly on the ideas that have turned out, in retrospect, to be most important and influential, as well as sketching some current developments and making some wild guesses about the future.

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