[Haskell-cafe] Haskell in 3 Slides

[Miguel Mitrofanov]

On 18 May 2009, at 20:29, Joe Fredette 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

I'd say monads are not of that importance; parametric polymorphism may  
be a better choice.


>
>
> 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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