Simon Peyton Jones Interview

Courtesy Lambda the Ultimate - Programming Languages Weblog  Fri, 09/19/2008 - 10:51

A Simon Peyton Jones interview as part of the series The A-Z of Programming Languages that Naomi Hamilton has been putting together.

Posting this one to the front page, not because of any bias towards functional programming, so much as it stands on its own as interesting and insightful from the standpoint of programming language design and evolution.

To supplant established languages, even in the functional programming area, like Haskell or ML or Scheme, you have to...


 

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