Real World Haskell

Keith Fahlgren sent out an announcement this morning about the new Bay Area Functional Programmers group. We’re hoping to set up an initial meeting on Thursday, September 13th at 7:30pm, somewhere in San Francisco. For details and to participate, join the mailing list.

The videos of Simon Peyton Jones’s talks at OSCON have garnered quite a bit of attention since O’Reilly published them. To give an idea of their popularity, our friends at O’Reilly kindly passed along some of the viewership statistics.
Simon’s Haskell language talks are the most popular of the OSCON videos, and have been viewed over [...]

At OSCON last week, Simon Peyton Jones delivered some superlative sessions. Two of these are now available for your video enjoyment.

His keynote talk, “Transactional memory for concurrent programming”, is about 15 minutes long, and was very well received.
The tutorial, “A taste of Haskell”, is about three hours long, and the video is split into part [...]