Comments on: Video of my CUFP keynote

By: Jason Dusek

Jason Dusek — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:02:34 +0000

I have to say, Brian’s observations about unstructured immersion apply to my study of Haskell as well — and this contributed to my
relative inefficacy as a Haskell teacher at Noisebridge earlier this year.

I do have one student who’s stuck with it — or at least returned to it intermittently — but everyone else has gone back to Python or whatever else they thought was cool. One developer is, ironically, trying to come up with ways to annotate C++ for FP; it is a project of mine to convince him that really, honestly, he is not alone in desiring a performant yet safe language for multi-core concurrency.

By: jberryman

jberryman — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:33:56 +0000

Thanks for posting this. Great keynote. Now off to write a blog post!

By: desing

desing — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:24:14 +0000

Train yourself to a superior physique, like dons, with Haskell programming. In only 5-15 minutes a day you can be ripped like dons. Immerse yourself in various type system battles that will leave you looking muscled like never before!

By: John Bender

John Bender — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:55:42 +0000

As someone who is learning Haskell I think the ideas expressed in your talk are spot on. I would also like to say that I have yet to find a community that I like as much as the haskell community ( #haskell ). Its a direct result of the folks who are looked to as leaders and their attitudes. Kudos to you.

As a ruby programmer, please, whatever you do, don’t loose the humility and the willingness to embrace the new folks, its worth more than you can know.

By: j h woodyatt

j h woodyatt — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:52:58 +0000

Nicely done, but sadly, I’m not going to get very trying to teach people how to write high-performance embedded software in $FUNLANG until someone hires me away from my current employers to do that.