Functional Programming & Haskell - Computerphile
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN commenters link it as a short, approachable intro to Haskell and functional programming, and also as the source of a running joke tying Haskell to Tim Curry.
Recommended by 0 people across 0 different months, 2017 to 2026.
What it is
Computerphile interviews John Hughes, a Chalmers professor and member of the team that created Haskell, about what functional programming is. He gives a short, accessible introduction to the paradigm and to Haskell's role in it.
Cited in 1 Wikipedia article, including John Hughes (computer scientist).
What people said
Cites gens · 2017-08 · Hacker News · on “Erlang Garbage Collection Details and Why It Matters”
> awk, bc not production level languages. I think you're being disingenuous there. First of all, we are talking about programming languages here, not about how widely they are used in "production". I know that awk is used in one giant company to do an important thing (aka dealing with money). It wouldn't surprise me to find that bc is also used in "the industry". On that note, the TIOBE index lists Java, C, C++ and C# as being the most widely used languages. Awk is number 33, just below Ada, Prolog and Erlang. Rust is not even on the list, a list where assembly of all things holds the 14'th place. (bc is in the same group as rust there) Erlang is also used for plenty of "heavy" things, notab
Cites adregan · 2026-08 · Hacker News · on “Tim Curry has died”
At some point, after watching this video[0], I was never able to watch a movie with Tim Curry and not think about Haskell. 0: [this video]