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080 - A History of Computing with Dr. Drang

Conal Elliott, inventor of Functional Reactive Programming, tells us about the birth of FRP as well as other stories from his 25 years of functional programming experience. He shares what he considers the fundamentals of FRP (behaviors and events) and how they work in a model with continuous time. We speak about FRP practicality and efficiency, including how a continuous time model can help lead to a high performance implementation. Eventually we're led into Denotational Design, which plays a part in the design and refinement of FRP and which Conal considers his simplest and clearest design tool.

Finally, Conal gives us a teaser of his work at Tabula compiling Haskell to hardware (e.g. FPGAs).

The Haskell Cast #9 - Conal Elliott on FRP and Denotational Design

Bryan O'Sullivan shares his experience helping make developers more efficient, both inside of Facebook as Director of Developer Efficiency and with his various Haskell libraries, some of which you probably know and use already: aeson, attoparsec, criterion, statistics, and text (to name a few). We speak about performance and optimization of Haskell programs and where documentation for "Real World" Haskell development should go from here. The talk with Bryan also reveals how far you can go with Haskell without being overly concerned about category theory and the other math behind the language and libraries.

The Haskell Cast #10 - Bryan O'Sullivan on Performance and Efficiency

Evan Phoenix and Dave Fayram discuss why people like the Go programming language in a totally reasonable way.

A Reasonable Conversation About Programming Languages

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