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SUMMARY:(Failing to) avoid success at all costs: the Haskell story - Profe
 ssor Simon Peyton-Jones (Microsoft Research)
DTSTART:20120209T180000Z
DTEND:20120209T191500Z
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DESCRIPTION:Haskell is twenty one years old\, an age at which most program
 ming languages are either dead and buried\, or else have become mainstream
  and hence frozen in a web of backward-compatibility constraints. Haskell 
 is different: it is in rude health\, is widely used (but not too widely!)\
 , and is still in a state of furious innovation.\n\nIn this talk I'll refl
 ect on this two-decade journey\, I'll discuss Haskell's birth and evolutio
 n\, including some of the research and engineering challenges we faced in 
 design and implementation. I'll focus particularly on the ideas that have 
 turned out\, in retrospect\, to be most important and influential\, as wel
 l as sketching some current developments and making some wild guesses abou
 t the future.
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