[Haskell-cafe] What to say about Haskell?

[Thomas Davie]

On 14 Jul 2009, at 15:30, Patai Gergely wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I was asked to give a one-hour 'introductory' seminar on Haskell. The
> audience is a bunch of very clever people with a wider than usual
> perspective on programming and mathematics, and my talk should be  
> rather
> informational than evangelistic. Which topics do you think I should
> touch by all means given the short time?

Lazyness and the many funky things it lets you do -- there's tons of  
elegant programs that are only possible because of lazyness :)

Bob