Adventures with types
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Static type systems are the world’s most widely applied formal method, in daily use by millions of programmers.
The trouble is that weak type systems give types a bad name; they get in your way and stop you from writing the programs you want to write. And that leads to the familiar but fruitless static-vs-dynamic debate which I hope to avoid entirely.
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Adventures with types
Simon Peyton Jones
Simon Peyton Jones, MA, MBCS, CEng, graduated from Trinity College Cambridge in 1980. Simon was a key contributor to the design of the now-standard functional language Haskell, and is the lead designer of the widely-used Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC). He has written two textbooks about the implementation of functional languages.
Please log in to watch this conference skillscast.
Static type systems are the world’s most widely applied formal method, in daily use by millions of programmers.
The trouble is that weak type systems give types a bad name; they get in your way and stop you from writing the programs you want to write. And that leads to the familiar but fruitless static-vs-dynamic debate which I hope to avoid entirely.
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- Haskell eXchange 2019 (in London on 10th - 11th October 2019)
- Fireside chat: Martin Odersky & Simon Peyton Jones (SkillsCast recorded in December 2018)
- Fast Track to F# with Tomas Petricek & Phil Trelford (in London on 9th - 10th September 2019)
- Functional Concurrency in .NET with C# and F# (in London on 9th - 10th September 2019)
- Clojure eXchange 2019 (in London on 2nd - 3rd December 2019)
- Workshop: Improving compile times (in London on 23rd July 2019)
- Elm Code Night (in London on 31st July 2019)
- Scala 2.13 and Beyond! (SkillsCast recorded in April 2019)
- Introduction to Markov Chains in F# (SkillsCast recorded in April 2019)
Adventures with types
Simon Peyton Jones
Simon Peyton Jones, MA, MBCS, CEng, graduated from Trinity College Cambridge in 1980. Simon was a key contributor to the design of the now-standard functional language Haskell, and is the lead designer of the widely-used Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC). He has written two textbooks about the implementation of functional languages.