<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif">Hello! I went and volunteered to talk at Lambdalounge, sort-of-about Perl.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif">Hope to see some of you next Monday ;-)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif">Hakim / osfameron</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Rick Moynihan</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rick.moynihan@gmail.com">rick.moynihan@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: 12 April 2016 at 21:51<br>Subject: [lambda-lounge-manchester] Haskell is an acceptable Perl - The Lambda Lounge 7pm this monday (18th April 2016)<br>To: "<a href="mailto:lambda-lounge-manchester@googlegroups.com">lambda-lounge-manchester@googlegroups.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:lambda-lounge-manchester@googlegroups.com">lambda-lounge-manchester@googlegroups.com</a>>, <a href="mailto:nwrug-members@googlegroups.com">nwrug-members@googlegroups.com</a>, <a href="mailto:python-north-west@googlegroups.com">python-north-west@googlegroups.com</a>, <a href="mailto:geekup@googlegroups.com">geekup@googlegroups.com</a>, <a href="mailto:xp-manchester@googlegroups.com">xp-manchester@googlegroups.com</a><br><br><br>This Monday (18th April @7pm) the Lambda Lounge is meeting with a<br>
presentation by Hakim Cassimally on how Haskell is an acceptable Perl.<br>
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<a href="http://www.lambdalounge.org.uk/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.lambdalounge.org.uk/</a><br>
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So, Haskell is "an advanced purely-functional programming language" which<br>
supports writing "declarative, statically typed code". It may be optimized for<br>
academic buzzwords you've never heard of but... is it any good for writing code<br>
in the way that you'd write Perl, Python, or Ruby?<br>
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What are strong types, and why are we so frightened of them anyway? Can you<br>
develop interactively in Haskell, the way you would in a dynamic language? Does<br>
Haskell have "whipuptitude" (being able to get things done quickly) as well as<br>
"manipulexity" (being able to manipulate complex things)? And perhaps most<br>
importantly, can writing Haskell be *fun*?<br>
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Rick.<br>
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