jan.varwig

Many thanks to zipMe who provided some extremely valuable links in the comments to my last entry. You could have invented monads is the monad tutorial I have always longed for.
It explains the basics (the monad interface) and then describes how these basics can be used to achieve the various stuff you always see monads being used for (sequential programming, side effects) all with very focused examples and excercises, without much Haskell background needed. Not too theoretical to recognize the connection to Haskell, nor too practical to provide insight about the ideas behind monads.

Since I wrote about F# in August, my progress has been rather slow.
There was a lot of work to do for Uni, almost all involving final touches to Pavel, the data-analysis tool me and a few other students have developed as a student research project. We’ll publish Pavel next week on SourceForge, I’ll write a few lines about it then.

Another thing that has held me back is my fascination for Haskell. Read the rest of this entry »

I’m feeling all mad-scientistic tonight, sipping coke, with 30 tabs open in Opera :)

On my journey into the weird world of functional programming on the .NET CLR, I continue to stumble upon interesting stuff. Papers, articles, interviews, each worthy of hours of dedication. Alas, my day still has only 24 hours (I need to work around that somehow), so at the time being I can’t do much more than glance over everything. Read the rest of this entry »

Wie heisst die Faustregel doch so schön? “Lerne jedes Jahr eine neue Programmiersprache”

Bisher schlage ich mich damit ganz gut:

2007: ein bißchen Python
2006: C#, Ruby, Javascript
2005: genug C++ um da in Zukunft einen Bogen herum zu machen, genug Haskell um ein permanentes distanziertes Interesse zu erhalten das vielleicht irgendwann durchschlägt in ernsthafte Auseinandersetzung.
2003/2004: Java
1999-2002: PHP, SQL Read the rest of this entry »