For all the new n00bs here

necessary viewing, better than SICP etc:
http://blip.tv/file/324976/
http://blip.tv/file/325646/

accompanying slides:
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/presentations/os2007/os_peytonjones.pdf

Ex-fucking-cuse me, is he really using xmonad as his first example?

Also, that bunny-brained cameraman seems to love Peyton-Jones so much he can't get his camera off him to do things like showing what is actually being demonstrated, making the presentation almost unfollowable.

>>3
I love SPJ as well. Who wouldn't love him? Look at him, so cheerful and happy to teach something that he'll get no credit for because it's going to be slowly absorbed in an inferior manner into the mainstream.

In 2050 when Java 9 looks just like Haskell except with curly braces SPJ will finally have enough and he'll pull the trigger on the garden hose (no guns in the UK sorry), and drown in his little inflatable pool, having been unable to afford better on his shitty university salary.

Plus, he's cute.

>>1
its not better than SICP, cant you even say somethings good without sounding like a fucking idiot

>>5
Anything is better than SICP, except the MSDN

I LISTEN TO INFECTED MUSHROOM WHILE I WRITE JAVA BECAUSE I AM 1337

Peyton-Jones so much he.

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I am the phantom autist

I am the phantom autist