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An interview with Simon Peyton Jones exploring his career, the design of Haskell, C--, and the Verse programming language.

We had the privilege of interviewing Simon Peyton Jones OBE. Simon is one of *the* most influential programmers of all time, yet humble and fun to chat to, and generous with his time. We spent 90mins exploring his career, Haskell, C-- and Verse, and also some more meta topics about the influence of tech and programmers' responsibilities to build a future that works for everyone. Shownotes: - Dependent Haskell: gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/wikis/dependent-haskell - Learn Haskell at Exercism for free: exercism.org/tracks/haskell Timestamps: Waiting music : Interview

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u/hellwolf_rtin r/haskell • Recommends

Interview and AMA with Simon Peyton Jones
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u/ihidin r/haskell • Mentions

Interview and AMA with Simon Peyton Jones, lead developer of Haskell On April 20th at 19.30 UTC, I'll be speaking with Simon Peyton Jones, one of the team behind Haskell, on a YouTube livestream. Simon is renowned for his work in lazy functional languages, and I'll be exploring his career of building languages, especially Haskell, but also C-- and most recently Verse. We'll dig into his work at both Microsoft Research and Epic Games, and exploring the lessons we can take from a monumental career. **At the end we'll put your questions to him in an AMA.** Everyone is welcome to come and join in and ask questions. You can set a reminder on YouTube. The interview is part of Exercism's #…
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u/ziggurismin r/haskell • Mentions

On “is dependent haskell still a thing?”

Richard Eisenberg was spearheading that project for years, without much in the way of user facing progress, but in 2022 he seemed to step back. I don't know whether he formally announced his parting ways with the project, but he deleted the "projects" tab of his personal website where he talked about the dependent haskell initiative. He did say this on the haskell discourse in 2022. >But – in some contrast to the me of 5 years ago – I’ve come to be more skeptical of adding dependent types to Haskell as it exists today. >Suppose we’re renovating our castle. We know that a beautiful tower placed just there will be a sight to behold – and will give us a wonderful view, both for pleasure and…
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u/Noughtmarein r/haskell • Mentions

On “Interview and AMA with Simon Peyton Jones”

I really like the idea around 1:08:00. SPJ remarks that Haskell is quite bloated and has many overlapping features. Then he suggests someone might come along and distill out a streamlined subset of Haskell that can beat Haskell at its own game.
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u/project_broccoliin r/haskell • Mentions

On “Leaving Haskell behind — Infinite Negative Utility”

I think Simon Peyton-Jones expresses a similar desire in this interview, but I don't have time to watch the whole thing to find it. If memory serves me well, he says something along the lines of "maybe someone will come up with a new language that's a subset of Haskell with just what's needed, but they will need to be extra smart"
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u/uppercase_lambdain r/functionalprogramming • Mentions

On “Today: Interview and AMA with Simon Peyton Jones, lead developer of Haskell”

Is there a link out there that currently works? EDIT: Here it is: link to this video
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