Why Regular Expressions Matter and Fun with Sum and Product Types with Chris Dornan and Andres Loh!
Why Regular Expressions Matter with Chris Dornan!
Some technically excellent packages are available which have been widely adopted but there is strong evidence that they are not as easy to use as developers expect and a wide variety of alternative packages have been proposed, none of which have attracted enough support to supplant the original.
Chris will speculate on why this situation has come about and why he think the new 'regex' package will fix all of this. (Another spoiler alert: it is built on top of the technically excellent, de facto standard 'regex-base' packages that get used when Haskell folks really, really can't avoid using regular expressions.)
Chris Dornan
Chris is Chief Engineer for Iris Connect who provide web/video platform to help professionals to record, develop and share their practice.
Fun with Sum and Product Types
In contrast with other talks on generics-sop that I have given in the past, this talk will be less concerned with the internals of the library, and more focused on applications and examples.
Andres Löh
Andres Löh is a Haskell consultant and co-owner of Well-Typed LLP. He is based in Regensburg, Germany. He started using Haskell in 1997, when being an undergraduate student of mathematics in Konstanz and has been an enthusiastic functional programmer ever since. Andres obtained a PhD in Computer Science from Utrecht University in 2004, on extending the Haskell language with capabilities for datatype-generic programming. After having been a university lecturer for several years, he joined Well-Typed in 2010.
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