The Haskell Interlude Haskell Podcast

Gergő Érdi is interviewed by Wouter Swierstra and  Andres Löh. Gergő has an interesting path into Haskell taking many twists and turns. This episode discusses about these twists and Gergő's recent book on implementing retro computers using Haskell.

Simon Peyton Jones is interviewed by Andres Löh and Joachim Breitner.  Simon is the creator of Haskell and in this episode he talks about his new position at Epic, the origins of Haskell and why "it feels right", and the (extra)ordinary Haskell programmers.

Nadia Polikarpova is interviewed by Alejandro Serrano and Niki Vazou. Nadia is an assistant professor at UCSD, where she works on improving how we write programs. They talk about some of her projects, like Hoogle+ and Synquid, and how she approaches teaching about these topics.

Sebastian Graf is interviewed by Joachim Breitner and Alejandro Serrano.  Sebastian is one of the most active contributors to GHC, and tells of this experience, from his very first commit to GHC to his current work on the pattern coverage checker and demand analyzer. He also gives us hints on how to reason about the strictness of Haskell programs.

Niki Vazou and Andres Löh are joined by guest Théophile Choutri (they/them), who also goes by Hécate. Théophile coordinates multiple projects and volunteer groups within the Haskell Foundation, notably the Haskell School project (intending to provide a free online open source library for teaching Haskell), and works on improving GHC core documentation and developing an alternative to Hackage. Together they discuss Théophile's introduction to Haskell and their ongoing projects with the Foundation and the broader community, with a focus on the challenges facing Haskell non-experts and how they hope to tackle them.

José Calderón  is interviewed by Niki Vazou and Wouter Swierstra .  José has been working on functional programming at Galois and University of Maryland.  He tells us about his research background in many different continents, his experience with teaching compilers, the relation between music and functional programming and the "Recursive Programming Techniques" book that in the  1970s captured the essence of functional programming.