Subject: [xsl] Haskell podcast From: "Andrew Welch" <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 14:17:13 +0100 |
There's a podcast about Haskell that might be interesting for people on this list: http://www.se-radio.net/podcast/2008-08/episode-108-simon-peyton-jones-functional-programming-and-haskell It covers things like side effects, tail recursion, higher order functions, memoization, monads etc. One thing in particular was the way he describes the difference between variables in functional languages and imperative languages: in languages like XSLT the variable is the actual variable, whereas in imperative languages it's the reference to the value that gets changed. It's a neater way of explaining it rather than the usual "x = x + 1" argument, I think. One other thing - towards the end he talks about how interest in Haskell was fairly low and static for most of its life, but then has grown rapidly in the last 10 years and he's not too sure why... How old is XSLT ? :) -- Andrew Welch http://andrewjwelch.com Kernow: http://kernowforsaxon.sf.net/
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