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Haskell Weekly News: June 25, 2008
The Haskell Sequence (Jun 25 2008) Explore Article
...e, and invite them into the community! Community News Andrew Wagner (chessguy) recently flew out to Microsoft for an interview with their Live Search team. In an email to the cafe, he shares some stories from ......4. An update on Roman's Google Summer of Code project. Osfameron: More Countdown: laziness, Scheme, and German frogs. Andrea Vezzosi (Saizan): a dependency analysis framework for Cabal.... (Read Full Article)
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Functional Programming FAQ
Lambda the Ultimate (Jun 17 2008) Explore Article
...elated skills. Then what do we do with all of those out of work computer science majors? Seriously, Microsoft is at least leading the mainstream towards a more functional future with C# 3.0. The Java folks..........ent can do to students. Admittedly, I'd also like to see Java out of the curriculum. Give 'em C and Scheme to see imperative and functional programming, then add object orientation later on. That's ... (Read Full Article)
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Lambda the Ultimate (Jun 17 2008) Explore Article
...elated skills. Then what do we do with all of those out of work computer science majors? Seriously, Microsoft is at least leading the mainstream towards a more functional future with C# 3.0. The Java folks..........ent can do to students. Admittedly, I'd also like to see Java out of the curriculum. Give 'em C and Scheme to see imperative and functional programming, then add object orientation later on. That's ... (Read Full Article)
Comment on Article Mentions: Scheme Paul Hudak Unicode
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How to get a job at Realtime Worlds (1)
Luke Halliwell’s Weblog (Jun 15 2008) Explore Article
...n the way we work and hire, so it’s probably also useful to read online about applying to Google, Microsoft etc (since there are plenty of people talking about this). What I look for Here’s what I look for......ent. Pick one of Java, C/C++ and C#, one of Ruby and Python, one of Haskell and ML, one of Lisp and Scheme, and so on. Lua is highly popular in games. ...
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Comment on Article Mentions: Google Peter Norvig Haskell
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Not as Pessimistic
Lambda the Ultimate (Jun 12 2008) Explore Article
...elated skills. Then what do we do with all of those out of work computer science majors? Seriously, Microsoft is at least leading the mainstream towards a more functional future with C# 3.0. The Java folks..........ent can do to students. Admittedly, I'd also like to see Java out of the curriculum. Give 'em C and Scheme to see imperative and functional programming, then add object orientation later on. That's ... (Read Full Article)
Comment on Article Mentions: Paul Hudak Chris Okasaki Matthias Felleisen
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Linq Dynamic Extensions
The Pursuit of a Life (Mar 25 2008) Explore Article
..., VB, C, C++, Java, C#, SQL, etc. Ahhhhh. Now, functional programming is all the rage. You’ve got Scheme, Erlang, Haskell, etc. And when Linq came out, I’ve been seeing all these things like Dynamic Lam...... Extensions available in this zip file that allows you to do just that sort of thing. Unusually for Microsoft, they don’t give you a step-by-step guide to actually implement it. The steps turn out ... (Read Full Article)
Comment on Article Mentions: Scheme Haskell Microsoft
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Most Productive FP Lang? | Lambda the Ultimate
Lambda the Ultimate (Feb 19 2008) Explore Article
...do one or more parts of your solution blatantly violate requirement 1 of my original post? I'm sure Microsoft deserves to get compensated for its work in developing .Net and Visual Studio, but as a contributor......ple don't feel more "free" because they have the specs/code to their microwave. Shameless plug: the SchemeScript plugin is located here. (There are several languages called Q; this one is at http://q-lang.s... (Read Full Article)
Comment on Article Mentions: Erlang Greg Morrisett Scheme
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Tackling the awkward squad
Microsoft Research Home (Feb 18 2008) Explore Article
...exceptions to act as its representative [16]. 5.2.2 Catching an imprecise exception I describe this scheme as using “imprecise” exceptions, because we are deliberately imprecise about which exception is......itten in C. Good progress has also been made for other languages and software architectures: COM is Microsoft’s Component Object Model, a language-independent, binary interface for composing software compone... (Read Full Article)
Comment on Article Mentions: Tony Hoare Green Card Intel
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Commercial Users of Functional Programming: CUFP-2007-Report
cufp.galois.com (Feb 9 2008) Explore Article
...f which are also described at http://caml.inria.fr/about/successes.en.html): • the SLAM tool from Microsoft for static verification of Windows device drivers, whose authors observed that “The expressivene......cademic use, but are still working on the terms for commercial use. Terrorism Response Training in Scheme (Eric Kidd, Dartmouth Medical School) Abstract: The Interactive Media Lab (IML) builds shrink-wrapp... (Read Full Article)
Comment on Article Mentions: Kathleen Fisher Microsoft Research Joe Armstrong
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Neil's point-free blog " Haskell: Too Hard, or Just Hard Enough?
Redirecting... (Jan 27 2008) Explore Article
...ough? Posted on January 30th, 2007 by Neil Recently on Channel 9 an interview appeared with some of Microsoft’s top language designers and programming gurus; namely Anders Hejlsberg (designer of C#), Erik Me......must be “pure” functional programming. Unfortunately most functional languages, including Lisp, Scheme, ML, OCaml and Erlang allow side effects. They do not enforce purity, for pragmatic reasons that it... (Read Full Article)
Comment on Article Mentions: Microsoft Research Haskell Herb Sutter
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history.pdf (application/pdf Object)
Microsoft Research Home (Jan 11 2008) Explore Article
...into an executable programming language. In the late ’70s, Gerry Sussman and Guy Steele developed Scheme, a dialect of Lisp that adhered more closely to the lambda calculus by implementing lexical scoping......age. Ironically, not long after this press release, Peyton Jones announced his move from Glasgow to Microsoft Research in Cambridge, an event that Peterson knew nothing about at the time. Subsequent events hav... (Read Full Article)
Comment on Article Mentions: Ennals Unicode Ross Paterson





