Haskell and Java ... two great tastes that go great together

Or something to that effect. Lately, I've been on a bit of a Java and Haskell binge. I hadn't done Java for a long time after doing some elementary work in it a while back. It was a treat to find this set of lectures taught by a really energetic and competent teacher (ex googler?), so I've been playing around and having fun with "Karel the Robot" following the awesome stanford lectures by Mehran Sahami for CS106A. And here is the link to the Youtube Programming Methodology Lectures (All of em!).

Meanwhile, in true ADHD fashion, I have also been fascinated by the coolness that is Haskell. And this was triggered by the most recent C9 lectures by Dr. Eric Meijer on Haskell.

Here are the links to the first two lectures.

C9 Lectures - Dr. Erik Meijer - Functional Programming Fundamentals, Chapter 1 of 13



C9 Lectures: Dr. Erik Meijer - Functional Programming Fundamentals, Chapter 2 of 13



And after that whets you appetite a bit, head on over to blip.tv for the Haskell talk given by Simon Peyton Jones (of Microsoft) for OSCON 2007. (it is broken into two videos)

Part the First (78 minutes):


Part the Deux (111 minutes):



References:

1. A Gentle Introduction to Haskell
2. Haskell WinHugs (Hugs98) "interpreter"/REPL to play around with on your Windows machine.
3. Haskell Platform Suite (GHC compiler, libraries.. the whole shbang! all in one easy package... just in case you fall in love ;^) ...

4. Stanford Eclipse (comes with the ACM libraries and a much leaner interface for playing around with the class assignments - if you're just starting out with Java and don't want to lose sight of the forest for the trees)
5. CS106A - Programming Methodology Lectures on Youtube (all 28 of them!)