The Future of Programming with Richard Eisenberg
Signals and Threads
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The Importance of Open Source Contributions
After getting his PhD, you started working on Haskell. Where did it go from there? I was pleading the Haskell people to create this for me. And then eventually Simon just wrote and said, why don't you just do it? It's like, I could influence this language. But I'm just this random person. After a couple of years at Bryn Mawr left to join Tweeg, which is a software consultancy based in Paris - they do a ton of Haskell work. They hired me basically just to continue my contributions in the Haskell space. So I continued doing research there, continued contributing to the compiler there. Now I was looking to be part of a cohesive team all working
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