hanks to Kathleen Fischer and Peter Thiemann, the recorded sessions from last year's Commercial Users of Functional Programming are now up in conveniently viewable form on Google Video.
I have a very simple problem which just extracts some numbers from files adds it. Well the number of files to be searched currently are around 1600. I implemented this extraction in nearly every language I've used before and got some suprising result
"Here is a list of functional programs applied to real-world tasks. The main criterion for being real-world is that the program was written primarily to perform some task, not primarily to experiment with functional programming."
The goal of CUFP is to build a community for users of functional programming languages and technology, be they using functional languages in their professional lives, in an open source project (other than implementation of functional languages), as a hobb
Sometimes I wonder if the Haskell echo chamber is getting louder, or if programmers really are fed up with the status quo and slowly drifting towards functional programming. My hunch is that this is more than a mere echo chamber, and interest in Haskell a
"people have to invest a significant amount of effort in learning FP - if this can be amortized over several languages then things become a lot easier."
Great programmers are not looking for jobs. [...] But a fraction of them would easily consider another job if it involved Scheme, Lisp or Erlang programming (or other non-mainstream languages like OCaml, Prolog, Haskell, etc.).