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interview with Simon Peyton Jones

“Typo is a programming language that runs in Haskell’s type system. A Typo program is compiled to a Haskell module that’s then typechecked to compute the result. All computation happens in Haskell’s type system.”

“This is the first programming language to be publicly released from a plane flying over the Atlantic Ocean. I’m almost certain of that.”

“a Haskell code font with monospaced ligatures”

Simon Peyton Jones, coauthor of GHC, on types as APIs, Haskell intermediate language, 30k cores parallelism, Erlang as a Haskell library, CS education for kids, Google Dart, and more.

talk by Mark Lentczner

“allows managing files with git, without checking the file contents into git”

I started using annex to keep my mp3s in sync after buying the new laptop. So far, I can only complain about the installation process (oh, the joys of Haskell). I use only the very basic functionality, though.

Most of my music collection is still not on the new machine. When I find that I miss some artist, I wake my old white MacBook from sleep, type something like “play john5” in my Air’s terminal, and get actual mp3s from white:~/Music/mp3/john5 rsynced over wifi and opened in iTunes. Quite pleasant. :)