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John Hughes on Why Functional Programming Matters
- semmons 16y agoHere's a link to a readable transcript: http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0ATkBKEXbo6n8ZGdrNzhoM2dfNTVjYnFxOWRnaA&hl=en http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0ATkBKEXbo6n8ZGdrNzhoM2dfNT...
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- tjpick 16y agoif you've read Hughes' papers before, it's worth listening to the interview. Brings in his personality in a way that isn't conveyed well via the transcript.
- nfnaaron 16y agoLink to a downloadable/non-404 version of Hughes' paper: http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Paper/702256.aspx http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Paper/702256.aspx Two pdf links below the summary paragraph.
- olliesaunders 16y agoI know it's difficult to interview people on these complex topics but is Sadek Drobi really the best they can do?
- kunjaan 16y agoI agree. That guy gets to interview so many cool people and he does such a piss poor job at it. His other interviews are just awful. I think he asks generic questions and he doesn't seem to have followed the authors work. The only thing that saves him is that most of the interviewees are pretty interesting.
- sadache 16y agoWell maybe the fact that I am choosing cool people to interview means I follow what they are doing. Can you be constructive and tell me where do you draw your conclusion from? Keep in mind that I am interviewing for a wide variety of audience, and that I can't all of a sudden ask about technical details of using Arrows for parsers. If you get some bits of interest out of the interview then this means that I did my job well, since you are not my only target audience. I guess I better off doing these interviews since all what I get from it is these arrogant destructive comments. Thank you
- MrBlueSky 16y agoI lol'd when he made the jib "this is our great new language; it can't do assignments! ". That's exactly how I felt when I first started with FP.