A whirlwind tour of Haskell tools & Haskell Experience Report

Note that we're at NICTA this month and that we're taking a break from Yorgey this month so that any newcomers aren't put off by jumping into the deep end of a late-yorgey lecture. :)

This month focuses on tooling to get you started with Haskell and an experience report to help motivate learning and warn of any potential pitfalls. We hope you enjoy it!

A whirlwind tour of haskell tools - Chris McKay

Now that you've started learning haskell you will be needing some tools to make your development life easier. In this talk we'll be exploring the utilites for manipulating haskell packages, introducing a plethora of dev tools to make writing haskell easier, and finally how to bolt these together to make a reasonable IDE.

Haskell Experience Report: An Implementation of Plausible Logic - George Wilson
Many people have the impressive skill of common sense. Logics which emulate certain aspects of common sense fall within the field of non-monotonic reasoning.

For his Honours thesis, George Wilson completed a Haskell implementation of a non-monotonic logic called Plausible Logic. In this talk, George will give a very brief introduction to non-monotonic reasoning before diving into some of the code. He will discuss his experience working with and adapting an existing Haskell codebase, much of which was a decade old.