Subject: Re: [xsl] Haskell podcast From: "Dimitre Novatchev" <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 08:53:49 -0700 |
For people, who still don't know it, FXSL is to a very large extent an implementation of the Haskell's Prelude module. In case you might be looking for a good book on Haskell, here is a link to a beta-book that will be published in the next 2-3 months: http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/ Cheers, Dimitre Novatchev --------------------------------------- Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence. --------------------------------------- To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk ------------------------------------- Never fight an inanimate object ------------------------------------- You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 6:17 AM, Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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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