Functional Programmers Anonymous

Functional Programmers Anonymous

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Functional Programmers Anonymous episodes

  • [EWD-617] Zesde toespraak tot mijn studenten

    Maar kunnen we anders verwachten in een wereld, waarin het "automatic airtraffic control system" in binaire code gerepareerd wordt door een jongeman, die zes weken ter plaatste in dienst is? Tot Uw geruststelling kan ik U mededelen, dat dit verhaal niet een civiele luchthaven betreft: alleen in bijzondere omstandigheden hoeft het burgerverkeer van militaire luchthavens gebruik te maken.

    6 min
  • [EWD-707] Dear Mr. X of company Y

    When asked what made me pose that question, I explained to her the "educational circus" —remember Barnum's verdict?— Kindly she said "Please try not to be too rude when you answer the bloke." I have done my best; her only fault is that she did not marry a gigolo.

    5 min
  • Eric Torreborre on Specs2

    Eric Torreborre is a functional programmer in Scala and Haskell who also dabbles with Rust, and a library writer best know for his Scala test framework Specs2 and the Haskell dependency injection library Registry.

    1 hr 3 min

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"It should give us better control over the task of organizing our thoughts. If it did not do so, to my taste we should not deserve the computer at all!" thus concluded E.W. Dijkstra in 1972 at the end of his Turing Award Lecture. Four years earlier, during a conference in 1968, he also coined the phrase "Software Crisis", noting that the main challenge of the software industry, how to achieve intellectual control over the complexities of our own makings, had not yet been met.