X-Git-Url: http://lambda.jimpryor.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=lambda.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=index.mdwn;h=3a2b976efe0b81c2950fe9b3bbd90c772a12061c;hp=79203f8b0656e22cd921c450b67c74d31a1d4644;hb=6de2bd8209fa3f253373924a1723f6f98b6dfeff;hpb=945835525c1a4f9d8210693af0b60ecf957ba8be diff --git a/index.mdwn b/index.mdwn index 79203f8b..3a2b976e 100644 --- a/index.mdwn +++ b/index.mdwn @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ preloaded is available at [[assignment 3 evaluator]]. > Topics: [[List Monad as Continuation Monad]]; [[Manipulating Trees with Monads]] (updated); [[Monad Transformers]] (added recently) -(13 Dec) Lecture notes for Week13; Assignment10. +(13 Dec) Lecture notes for Week13; [[Assignment10]]. > Topics: [[CPS and Continuation Operators]]; Curry-Howard @@ -244,6 +244,12 @@ other. [[Translating between OCaml Scheme and Haskell]] +## What is Functional Programming? ## + +Here's a [survey conducted at Microsoft](http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=141506) asking programmers what they understand "functional programming" to be. Don't take their responses to be authoritative... this is a just a "man in the street" (seat?) poll. + +Read more about the [uptake of Haskell](http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2010/12/haskell-researchers-announce-discovery.html) among programmers in the street. + ## Recommended Books ##