Episode 36: John Hughes (#357)

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+title: John Hughes
+episode: 36
+buzzsproutId: 13879645
+recorded: 2023-09-21
+published: 2023-10-31
+---
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+In this episode, Matti and Wouter are joined by John Hughes. John is one of the authors of the original Haskell Report and talks about why functional programming matters, the origins of QuickCheck testing, and how higher order functions and lazy evaluation is the key that makes functional programming so productive, and so much fun!

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+* [Quviq](http://www.quviq.com/)
+* [Why Functional Programming Matters](https://academic.oup.com/comjnl/article/32/2/98/543535)
+* [How to specify it](https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-47147-7_4)
+* [QuickCheck](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/QuickCheck)
+* [Tony Hoare’s paper on Recursive Datastructures](https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/AD0772509.pdf)
+* [KRC](https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/dat/krc/)
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