Presentations Relating to Functional Programming Languages

At the ACCU 2008 conference, Russel Winder gave the presentation Functional Programming Matters. This presentation was part of the functional programming track at the conference. Following the title of a paper by John Hughes in 1984, but bringing the arguments and issues up to date, this session was introducing all the reasons why learning to program with functional languages such as Haskell and Erlang, makes people better programmers of C, C++, Java, Fortran, etc.