The Next Mainstream Programming Language: A Game Developer’s Perspective

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<i>Purely Functional is the right default<p>Imperative constructs are vital features that must be exposed through explicit effects-typing constructs</i><p>This is precisely the argument Haskellers make every time someone complains about algorithms that are difficult to formulate functionally.

There's some further discussion of this over at LtU (<a href="http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1277" rel="nofollow">http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1277</a>)

More relevant now than ever, but note that these slides are ~4 years old.

Those requests for the ability to have range limited data types reminds me strongly of Ada.

This might be old, but it very excellently done. One thing I like about it is that the assertions an conclusions are backed up by 1) real-world experience 2) deep understanding of programming language issues.

Slideshow from Gears Of War developer, seems to be advocating Haskell as the "next mainstream programming language".