July 24, 2009 at 08:01Interview with Simon Peyton-Jones, one of the creators of the Haskell language
During a recent visit to Moscow by Simon Peyton-Jones , one of the creators of the Haskell language , I managed to get a small spontaneous video interview from him , which I bring to your attention.
In this interview, Simon talks about his work at Microsoft Research: “Microsoft pays me money for doing something interesting to me. Few companies boast that level of research support. ” Speaking about Haskell, Simon sees it in many ways as an experimental platform where new ideas can be worked out, which later will enter more “traditional” languages (as happened with parametric polymorphism, garbage collector, etc.).
We also discuss the growing popularity of functional languages, right up to the triumphant inclusion of F # in Visual Studio 2010, but we still don’t get the answer to the question “will there be one programming paradigm left”. Simon tells why F # and not Haskell was integrated into .NET, and what are the advantages to Haskell; shares thoughts on which functional languages are better: lazy or energetic; talks about whether students need to learn functional languages. For those who don’t know very much, Simon briefly describes what functional programming is, and for experienced Haskell fans from Russia, he shares his impressions of his performance at MskHUG - Moscow Haskell User Group and talks about his plans for implementing supercompilation ideas in Haskell V.F. Turchina. Finally, in conclusion, Simon gives advice to novice researchers - how to successfully write articles and make scientific presentations .
The interview is in English, at least for now. Despite this - I highly recommend that anyone interested in programming or computer science will find something interesting for themselves!
In this interview, Simon talks about his work at Microsoft Research: “Microsoft pays me money for doing something interesting to me. Few companies boast that level of research support. ” Speaking about Haskell, Simon sees it in many ways as an experimental platform where new ideas can be worked out, which later will enter more “traditional” languages (as happened with parametric polymorphism, garbage collector, etc.).
We also discuss the growing popularity of functional languages, right up to the triumphant inclusion of F # in Visual Studio 2010, but we still don’t get the answer to the question “will there be one programming paradigm left”. Simon tells why F # and not Haskell was integrated into .NET, and what are the advantages to Haskell; shares thoughts on which functional languages are better: lazy or energetic; talks about whether students need to learn functional languages. For those who don’t know very much, Simon briefly describes what functional programming is, and for experienced Haskell fans from Russia, he shares his impressions of his performance at MskHUG - Moscow Haskell User Group and talks about his plans for implementing supercompilation ideas in Haskell V.F. Turchina. Finally, in conclusion, Simon gives advice to novice researchers - how to successfully write articles and make scientific presentations .
The interview is in English, at least for now. Despite this - I highly recommend that anyone interested in programming or computer science will find something interesting for themselves!