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Haskell in the Newsroom
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Summary
Erik Hinton discusses the successes and failures of making a cultural shift in the newsroom at NYT to accept Haskell and some of the projects Haskell has been used for.
Bio
Erik Hinton (@erikhinton) is an interactive news developer at The New York Times. Before that he worked for Talking Points Memo where a great cast of characters showed him the ropes. Erik enjoys programming in Haskell, studying analytic philosophy, writing experimental fiction for no one's enjoyment at all and finding ever-stranger ways to exercise.
About the conference
Code Mesh London is an annual conference dedicated to non-mainstream languages and technologies. In 2013 it featured over 50 talks from experts in languages, libraries, operating systems and technologies that handle the programming and business challenges of today. Languages discussed include Haskell, Clojure, Erlang, Elixir, Rust, Go and Julia.
Apr 02, 2014