[Haskell-cafe] Haskell in 3 Slides

[Andrew Wagner]

Don't forget to include higher-order functions in one of those important
points.

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 12:36 PM, John Van Enk <vanenkj at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Joe,
>
> Your assumption is correct--the whole presentation will be longer. I wanted
> to use 3 or 4 slides to introduce the language and the balance for the
> interesting stuff. :P
>
> /jve
>
> PS to Joe: I will not forget to reply to all. I will not forget to reply to
> all. I will not forget to reply to all. There, hopefully I won't forget any
> more. :)
>
> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Joe Fredette <jfredett at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> While an incredibly small font is a clever option, a more serious
>> suggestion may be as follows.
>>
>> 3-4 slides imply 3-4 topics, so the question is what are the 3-4 biggest
>> topics in haskell? I would think they would be:
>>
>> * Purity/Referential Transparency
>> * Lazy Evaluation
>> * Strong Typing + Type Classes
>> * Monads
>>
>> Assuming you have, say, 10-15 minutes for the talk, and the people there
>> are versed with imperative programming and maybe have some experience in
>> functional programming, you can probably jump over each of those slides in
>> about a minute, just enough to touch the subject.
>>
>> I also assume that you don't need to fit the whole presentation in 3-4
>> slides, if you do, then .... yah.
>>
>>
>> /Joe
>>
>>
>> David Leimbach wrote:
>>
>>> Use an incredibly small font.
>>>
>>> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 8:16 AM, John Van Enk <vanenkj at gmail.com<mailto:
>>> vanenkj at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>    Hi all,
>>>        I'm giving a presentation to an IEEE group on Embedded DSL's and
>>>    Haskell at the end of June. I need a 3 to 4 slide introduction to
>>>    Haskell. What suggestions does the community have? Is such a short
>>>    intro possible?
>>>        It just needs to introduce the basics so I can show some code
>>>    without alienating the audience. I'm hoping some one else has
>>>    attempted this before, but if not, some boiler plate slides could
>>>    be useful for every one!
>>>
>>>    --    /jve
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