[Haskell-cafe] Features of Haskell

[Clifford Beshers]

John Meacham wrote:
> <ramble>
>
> On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 02:16:47AM -0700, Clifford Beshers wrote:
>   
>> Interesting.  I just gave a talk to the SGVLUG (San Gabriel Valley Linux 
>> Users Group, which is centered at Cal Tech).  It was the first time I've 
>> given such a talk, half about Linspire/Freespire, half about Haskell 
>> features, and the other three halves were technical problems.
>>     
>
> Oh, I live a block from Caltech, I didn't know there was a Haskell talk
> there. 
>   
Dang!  I referenced your 'small but featureful grep' as an example of 
how Haskell should help reduce the need for `little languages' and 
two-level languages.  I promised to come back in six months or so and 
talk about the progress we've made on development tools for Freespire.  
I'll let you know.
>   
>> Writing the slides, I found that it is hard to disentangle all the 
>> concepts and build from the ground up.  Those of us who use it have 
>> forgotten just how many new concepts there are and how tightly bound 
>> together they are in Haskell.  As always, when you try to teach 
>> something you get a deeper understanding of it.  I'll see if I can't 
>> clean up some of the examples with hindsight and send it along to you 
>> and see what you think.
>>     
>
> I always prefered using a chalkboard (or whiteboard, or overhead +
> markers) instead of a pre-prepared slideshow when giving talks. it lets
> me change the focus depending on audience reaction and questions more.
> If you can get away with it, I'd recommend it for future talks, ignore
> anyone that says it is not profesional, they wouldn't have paid
> attention anyway to anything other than your font choices and choice of
> screen-wipes between slides.
>   
If I had been doing a tutorial, I might have done that, but I was doing 
a whirlwind tour where the goal was to get people excited. Also, I find 
that the first time presenting some information, I do better if I lay it 
out before hand.  Explanation of code is a different beast than creation 
of it.

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