Escape from the Ivory Tower: The Haskell Journey
FRS & Lead Designer of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler
1:04:15·2017·undergraduate level·Conference Talk
Explains how call-by-need lazy evaluation forced functional programming researchers to invent monadic effect systems, type classes, and purity-guided compiler transformations.
Systems & CSProgramming LanguagesBehavioral & Evolutionary BiologyChurchill CollegeUniversity of Cambridge
Churchill College's annual Computer Science lecture.
In this talk Simon discusses Haskell’s birth and evolution, including some of the research and engineering challenges he faced in design and implementation. Focusing particularly on the ideas that have turned out, in retrospect, to be most important and influential, as well as sketching some current developments and making some wild guesses about the future.
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