
24: Jeremy Gibbons
The Haskell Interlude
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The Evolution of Functional Programming
The program started in the early 90s Oxford had a research collaboration and IBM hersly labs. People from Oxford started going down and giving courses in hersly which is just an hour's drive south about z, then we knew to teach us something else as well. So that kind of grew and then we decided to open it up to people other than IBM and it became an Oxford degree. I got a trial by being in roped in to teach this course before I was interviewed for the job so they gave me the course to teach for a week and went down with me and watched what I did so I inherited the course rather than initiated it. It's very definitely for professional software developers but
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