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Functional Programming & Haskell - Computerphile

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  • Presented by John Hughes, Professor of Computer Science at Chalmers University of Technology

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John Hughes introduces the core concepts of functional programming and discusses the origins and applications of Haskell.

Just what is functional programming? We asked a member of the team that created Haskell: John Hughes, Professor of Computer Science at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg. facebook.com/computerphile twitter.com/computer_phile This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley. Computer Science at the University of Nottingham: bit.ly/nottscomputer Computerphile is a sister project to Brady Haran's Numberphile. More at bradyharan.com

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What people say. Recommended as an accessible introduction to functional programming by one of Haskell's co-designers.

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Functional Programming & Haskell - Computerphile (Youtube) An interview with John Hughes, one of the designers of Haskell, introducing the concept of functional programming and talking a little bit about Haskell's origins and applications. It's piqued my interesting in trying to learn Haskell again.