[Haskell-cafe] Re: How Albus Dumbledore would sell Haskell
bos at serpentine.com
Fri Apr 20 11:22:10 EDT 2007
Derek Elkins wrote:
> Game search is exactly an example use in "Why Functional Programming
> Matters" (http://www.math.chalmers.se/~rjmh/Papers/whyfp.html). That
> paper, 23 years later, is still pretty compelling. Perhaps, it should
> just be modernized and somewhat expanded.
I'll echo Lennart's response to the theorem proving suggestion :-)
Tom Moertel's parallel port scanner is much more the kind of thing that
will get people's attention. It's practical; it's parallel; and it's
short. And for Simon's convenience, it's already been written, so he
can concentrate on presenting it, rather than writing it.
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