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Erlang Factory SF 2016 - Keynote - John Hughes - Why Functional Programming Matters

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  • Presented by John Hughes, co-designer of Haskell
  • An opinion. It argues one side of a question engineers disagree on.

Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.

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Programming languagesSoftware designFunctional programmingElixir and ErlangHaskell

John Hughes delivers a keynote on the core benefits of functional programming, modularity, and its real-world impact.

Presenter: John Hughes

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What people say. Recommended as an excellent keynote on the fundamental benefits of functional programming by one of its pioneers.

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On “Functional Computer Architectures”

I suggest you to watch this John Hughes keynote. At the end of the talk, he speaks about FP and hardware.

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On “Hardware design in Haskell”

I would recommend the last part of this talk to you - [video From 50m28s to pretty much the end of the talk John Hughes talks about functional programming (mostly Haskell) and hardware. Additionally this ICFP keynote - [video by Mary Sheeran is entirely about hardware design and (mostly) Haskell.
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