Simon Peyton-Jones - A Taste of Haskell

I just never get tired of watching SPJ talk. He has an amazing ability to explain complex ideas in a meaningful way, not to mention his obvious natural enthusiasm for the subject.<p>It's also great to attend any talk where he's in the audience, because he always finds a way to ask questions which intentionally create opportunities for the speaker to look better by diving off into some interesting subtopic or area of technical detail that they've overlooked. A real talent.

This was great. I just wished that more in-depth articles like this one would rise to the top just as much.<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2429082" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2429082</a><p>ML may have lost the war, but from an academic and educational standpoint, folks in the ML community still have a lot to bring to the table.

"Haskell is the world's leading purely functional programming language"<p>Why do people have to write stuff like this? What is "leading" and why would that be important?<p>And, BTW, I am quite sure there is a lot more Erlang code running on phone centrals around the planet than Haskell code.