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The Haskell Interlude

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How Did You Get Into Computer Science?

Douglas Rushkoff: How did I get into computer science in the first place? He says he was inspired by David Turner's papers on SK combinators. And then after a job as an academic, he could work on lazy functional programming. But there weren't that many people working on lazy functional languages at the time.Rushkoff: So lots of serendipitous things happen when it comes to Haskell.

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