Interview with Simon Peyton-Jones, one of the creators of Haskell
During a recent visit to Moscow by Simon Peyton-Jones , one of the creators of the Haskell language , I managed to take a small spontaneous video interview from him, which I bring to your attention.
In this interview, Simon talks about his work at Microsoft Research: “Microsoft pays me money to do something interesting for me. Few companies can boast such a level of support for researchers. ” Speaking about Haskell, Simon sees it in many ways as an experimental platform, where you can work out new ideas that will later become part of more “traditional” languages ​​(as happened with parametric polymorphism, garbage collection, etc.).
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We are also discussing the growing popularity of functional languages, right up to the winning inclusion of F # in Visual Studio 2010, but the answer to the question “will the result be a single programming paradigm” is not received. Simon explains why F # and not Haskell was integrated into .NET, and what are the advantages for Haskell; shares considerations on which functional languages ​​are better: lazy or energetic; talks about whether students need to learn functional languages. For those who do not know much, Simon briefly describes what functional programming is, and for experienced Haskell fans from Russia, he shares his impressions of a performance at MskHUG - the Moscow Haskell User Group and talks about his plans for implementing Haskell's supercompilation ideas . VFTurchin . Finally, in conclusion, Simon gives advice to beginning researchers - how to write articles successfully and make scientific presentations .
The interview is in English, at least for now. Despite this - I highly recommend, everyone who is interested in programming or computer science will find something interesting for himself!
In this interview, Simon talks about his work at Microsoft Research: “Microsoft pays me money to do something interesting for me. Few companies can boast such a level of support for researchers. ” Speaking about Haskell, Simon sees it in many ways as an experimental platform, where you can work out new ideas that will later become part of more “traditional” languages ​​(as happened with parametric polymorphism, garbage collection, etc.).
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We are also discussing the growing popularity of functional languages, right up to the winning inclusion of F # in Visual Studio 2010, but the answer to the question “will the result be a single programming paradigm” is not received. Simon explains why F # and not Haskell was integrated into .NET, and what are the advantages for Haskell; shares considerations on which functional languages ​​are better: lazy or energetic; talks about whether students need to learn functional languages. For those who do not know much, Simon briefly describes what functional programming is, and for experienced Haskell fans from Russia, he shares his impressions of a performance at MskHUG - the Moscow Haskell User Group and talks about his plans for implementing Haskell's supercompilation ideas . VFTurchin . Finally, in conclusion, Simon gives advice to beginning researchers - how to write articles successfully and make scientific presentations .
The interview is in English, at least for now. Despite this - I highly recommend, everyone who is interested in programming or computer science will find something interesting for himself!
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/65274/
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