May 01, 2005

Only a fool would miss this presentation...

via Oleg Tkachenko:

Erik Meijer, one of designers of Haskell98 and C-omega languages will be presenting an interesting webcast at Tuesday, May 03, 2005 10:00 AM (GMT-08:00)

While it could easily be argued that just 'cause it would take an act of God to keep me from tuning into this presentation that doesn't necessarily mean I'm NOT a fool, missing this presentation most certainly works to this points converse proportion.

While functional languages tend to be more of my specialized focus, Haskell is still on my list of "must learn" languages, Lisp/Scheme having been more of my functional language focus which, when noticing the similarities, is part of what helped bring my focus to XSLT around the 2001 time frame. Given the fact that Dimitre has based FXSL on the Haskell Prelude it would be an obvious benefit for me to focus a good portion of my study time on Haskell as this would most certainly make me a better FXSL programmer. Without a doubt I plan to do this ASAP! It should be safe to assume that listening in on this webcast of Erik Meijer will probably give me a good base of areas to focus my studies given that, as Oleg points out, Erik was part of the Haskell98 project and is now working on COmega, something I have a HUGE amount of interest in if not already made obvious.