[Haskell-cafe] Haskell showcase in 5 minutes

[Heinrich Apfelmus]

Arnaud Bailly wrote:
> Hello Cafe,
> 
> I will be (re)presenting Haskell in a "Batlle Language" event Wednesday
> evening: A fun and interactive contest where various programming language
> champions try to attract as much followers as possible in 5 minutes.
> 
> Having successfully experimented the power of live coding in a recent
> Haskell introduction for the Paris Scala User Group, I would like to do the
> same but given the time frame I need a simpler example than the music
> synthesizer program.
> 
> So I would like to tap in the collective wisdom looking for some concise,
> eye-opening, mind-shaking and if possible fun example of what one can
> achieve in Haskell. Things that sprung to my mind are rather dull: prime
> factors, fibonacci numbers.

A morse code decoder, perhaps?

   http://apfelmus.nfshost.com/articles/fun-with-morse-code.html



Best regards,
Heinrich Apfelmus

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