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Simon Peyton Jones

Haskell Lead Designer

Haskell GHC

Biography

Simon Peyton Jones led the design of Haskell and GHC at Microsoft Research, advancing functional programming.

Daily Work

  • Working at Epic Games
  • Researching type systems
  • Speaking about functional programming
  • Contributing to Haskell

Challenges

“Functional programming changes how you think about code. Haskell pushes those ideas to their logical conclusion.”

Impact

Haskell and its type system have influenced programming language design across the industry.

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