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An Introduction to Functional Programming using Haskell
If you are a professional programmer, then Haskell is in your future. In the eighties, this statement would have been equally true about Smalltalk. Today object-oriented programming, class hierarchies, model-view-controller patterns, and other ideas from Smalltalk are now commonplace, even though Smalltalk never saw widespread adoption [1]. 

Haskell is in a similar situation today as concepts from functional programming are slowly finding their way into mainstream programming languages [2,3]. Since its inception in 1987, Haskell has provided a focal point for research in functional programming [4]. Haskell is quite different from most other programming languages, in particular it is a polymorphically statically typed, lazy, purely functional language [5]. The workshop will provide lots of hands-on exercise to help grasp the aspects of Haskell just mentioned as well as the theoretical underpinnings of the language.

Participants should install GHC in advance. Users of Mac OS X Snow Leopard should follow these instructions. 

References: 
  1. http://onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2007/05/21/an-introduction-to-haskell---part-1-why-haskell.html 
  2. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.127.184&rep=rep1&type=pdf 
  3. http://www.st.cs.uni-saarland.de/edu/seminare/2005/advanced-fp/docs/sweeny.pdf 
  4. http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/editorial.html
  5. http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Introduction

Spreker

Michel Rijnders has been obsessed about programming ever since his parents bought him a Sinclair ZX81. He holds a BA in Philosphy and a MSc in Software Engineering. Michel is currently working at TTY as technical lead on several projects including NationaleVacaturebank.nl and 2dehands.
 

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