[Haskell-cafe] What to say about Haskell?

[Magnus Therning]

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Thomas Davie<tom.davie at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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 :)

I'd add type-classes to that.

/M

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