What Haskell did to my brain

What Haskell did to my brain

By Yuval Kogman (‎nothingmuch‎)
Date: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 01:00 PM
Duration: 50 minutes
Target audience: Intermediate
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Tags: functional haskell immutable lazy modern moose oo perl pure

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In 2005 the Pugs project introduced many hackers including myself to Haskell, a statically typed, lazily evaluated, purely functional programming language for writing code that writes code that writes code.

This conference is about Perl, a dynamically typed, procedural, side effect heavy scripting language for munging text files.

Wake up! It's been 15 years since 1994, and more excitingly, it's been 4 years since 2005!

Perl has recently seen some amazing developments. Perl 5 is now, more than ever, a serious language for complex projects.

With this trend comes a new set of best practices for writing Modern Perl: adaptable high level code that uses state of the art tools in a modern way. At the core lies heavy use of Moose and a deep functional programming influence.

I will try to share my current approach to programming Perl, shamelessly stealing from the collective wisdom of some of the smartest programmers both in and outside of the Perl community.

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Attended by: Michael Schwern (‎Schwern‎), Brock Wilcox (‎awwaiid‎), Chris Prather (‎perigrin‎), Ricardo Signes (‎rjbs‎), Rick Scott (‎shadowspar‎), Christoph Otto (‎cotto‎), Chris Nehren (‎apeiron‎), Jesse Vincent, Arthur Schmidt (‎fREW‎), Patrick Michaud (‎Pm‎), Stevan Little (‎stevan‎), Shawn Moore (‎sartak‎), Jesse Luehrs (‎doy‎), Jason May (‎jasonmay‎), Lee Aylward (‎leedo‎), Jason Switzer (‎s1n‎), Dave Rolsky (‎autarch‎), Dan Magnuszewski (‎magnachef‎), Michael Peters (‎mpeters‎), Josh ben Jore (‎diotalevi‎), David H. Adler (‎dha‎), Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker (‎ilmari‎), Joe Cooper (‎swelljoe‎), Mark Stosberg, Todd Rinaldo (‎toddr‎), Elliot Shank, Stephen Scaffidi (‎hercynium‎), Joshua Gatcomb, Nathaniel Smith (‎Nate‎), Eric Andreychek, Shana Andreychek, Tatsuhiko Miyagawa (‎miyagawa‎), Ilia Lobsanov, Adri Mills, Hari Ravella, Mark Jubenville (‎ioncache‎), Darian Patrick (‎dapatrick‎), Adam Foxson (‎Fhoxh‎), Robert Boone (‎rlb3‎), Marco Antonio Manzo (‎amnesiac‎), Geoffrey Darling (‎Geoff‎), Jess Robinson (‎castaway‎), Christopher Nielsen (‎sparc‎), Dylan Hardison (‎dylan‎), Lawrence Hixson (‎Larry‎), Ryan Kelly (‎f0rk‎), Sean McCune (‎pghcoder‎), G. Wade Johnson (‎gwadej‎), Seth Viebrock, Clinton Wolfe, Kurt Edmiston, Dean Serenevy (‎duelafn‎), Brad Lhotsky, Nick, Walt Mankowski (‎waltman‎), Kevin Falcone (‎jibsheet‎), James E Keenan (‎kid51‎), Paul Makepeace (‎paulm‎), Hildo Biersma, Trey Harris, Mike Kelly (‎pioto‎),