Erlang Factory SF 2016 - Keynote - John Hughes - Why Functional Programming Matters
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Length: 60min 57sec (3657 seconds)
Published: Fri Mar 11 2016
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Ha, at 7:20 he mentions that a very early version of GHC used Church encoding for data structures.
It's really nice to see Haskell talks cropping up in all kinds of conferences both related to other FP languages and non-FP as well!
Fantastic talk.
The buildup was fantastic -- I really thought that the MuFP and Lava story was a setup for using something akin to the layout combinators from the pretty printing library to lazily search through some space of circuit layouts. :-)