[Haskell-cafe] Haskell in 3 Slides

[John Van Enk]

Thanks Joe,

Your assumption is correct--the whole presentation will be longer. I wanted
to use 3 or 4 slides to introduce the language and the balance for the
interesting stuff. :P

/jve

PS to Joe: I will not forget to reply to all. I will not forget to reply to
all. I will not forget to reply to all. There, hopefully I won't forget any
more. :)

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Joe Fredette <jfredett at gmail.com> wrote:

> While an incredibly small font is a clever option, a more serious
> suggestion may be as follows.
>
> 3-4 slides imply 3-4 topics, so the question is what are the 3-4 biggest
> topics in haskell? I would think they would be:
>
> * Purity/Referential Transparency
> * Lazy Evaluation
> * Strong Typing + Type Classes
> * Monads
>
> Assuming you have, say, 10-15 minutes for the talk, and the people there
> are versed with imperative programming and maybe have some experience in
> functional programming, you can probably jump over each of those slides in
> about a minute, just enough to touch the subject.
>
> I also assume that you don't need to fit the whole presentation in 3-4
> slides, if you do, then .... yah.
>
>
> /Joe
>
>
> David Leimbach wrote:
>
>> Use an incredibly small font.
>>
>> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 8:16 AM, John Van Enk <vanenkj at gmail.com <mailto:
>> vanenkj at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>    Hi all,
>>        I'm giving a presentation to an IEEE group on Embedded DSL's and
>>    Haskell at the end of June. I need a 3 to 4 slide introduction to
>>    Haskell. What suggestions does the community have? Is such a short
>>    intro possible?
>>        It just needs to introduce the basics so I can show some code
>>    without alienating the audience. I'm hoping some one else has
>>    attempted this before, but if not, some boiler plate slides could
>>    be useful for every one!
>>
>>    --    /jve
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/jve
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