[Haskell-beginners] Need some advices about university

[Noah Diewald]

It would be nice to know of a school somewhere in the US or Canada where
CS courses aren't taught mostly in Java. Is there such a place?

I would love to find a school with strengths in FP and linguistics.
Feeling as though this will be impossible keeps me more focused on
applying to theoretical linguistics departments and figuring that I'll
just have to use text books and the Internet for the computational
component, which will probably mean I'll get ok in linguistics but not
as good as I would like to be with FP. Human interactions, outside
expectations and having some type of mentor are so important.

Learning more Java seems like such a waste of mental energy and time. I
mean a theoretical linguist steeped in minimalism would never just hand
over their future education to connectionists. Even if they discover new
things about language, they won't be focusing on the ideas that they
really wanted to build their strength in. Why is Java considered such a
great educational language anyway? It seems great for making cubicle
warmers but the future employment of students seems like it should be
the least concern for people who's focus is ideas and discovery.

I guess this sounds a little frustrated? Does anyone have any
suggestions? Kansas University in Lawrence looks to have a lot of
Haskell activity (maybe not in courses) and a good looking linguistics
department.

This might be helpful to Zhi-Qiang Lei:

http://www.ittc.ku.edu/csdl/fpg/Home

On 10/26/2011 09:04 AM, Brent Yorgey wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 01:56:05PM +0800, Zhi-Qiang Lei wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm making a plan to gain more computer knowledge (functional
>> programming and Haskell especially) and a Master's degree in a
>> university. Does anybody know which university in USA has good
>> resources in this domain? Thanks.
> 
> The University of Pennsylvania has a good masters' degree program and
> a great programming languages group -- although they are not really
> connected (you would not get to study a whole lot of FP stuff while
> doing the masters' degree).  But of course you could come to the PL
> group meetings.
> 
> -Brent
> 
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