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Killed by Worse is Better - What we can learn from the last time FP failedLambdaConf 20252025-05-12
Argument: functional languages lose for adoption reasons not purity; concrete examples appear. Comparison of Lisp commercialization (LMI 3–4 engineers versus…
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Killed by Worse is Better What we can learn from the last time FP failed (TBR)LambdaConf 20252025-05-12
Argues a concrete cause: functional languages lost not from theory but from adoption factors — Lisp versus Unix tradeoffs, Haskell’s slow standards and Cabal…
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Type Safety Or Security Theater: Using Servant And Yesod As Case StudiesLambdaConf 20242024-05-04
Argues that strong types can be genuine safety or just costly ritual, backing it with concrete comparisons: error handling patterns in Go, Rust ergonomics, the…
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Rust's Borrow Checker Proven Correct!LambdaConf 20192019-06-05
Claim: borrow checker proven correct for a formal subset of Rust — lifetimes, ownership and aliasing get modeled and the properties are machine-checked…
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Monad Transformers for the Easily ConfusedLambdaConf 20182018-06-03
Claims that monad transformers let different effects be composed are demonstrated with concrete Haskell code, a tiny Stack repo, and the transformers package…
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Greek Classics: Lambda Calculus For BeginnersLambdaConf 20172017-05-25
Starts from the identity function and shows concrete reductions step by step, demonstrating beta reduction and where substitution terminates or diverges (Omega…
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