I’m a Java developer… typically, though I end up doing a lot of different stuff… I ended up reading about Haskell on the Builder.AU website - I wasn’t really sure why they had an article on learning Haskell, it is a cool language functional paradigm instead of imperitive or Object oriented… but it is largely academic (both in theory and practise!) a truely functional language should have no IO, as a true function has the same result everytime it is provided the same paramaters and no side effects. It is the nature of IO that it is a side effect… so making functional languages useful is somewhat frowned upon. Unless that use requires no IO!
Anyway, Microsoft has just released F#, a functional language for the .NET platform, so perhaps the purpose of Builder.AU writing about Haskell is to provide a functional language developers can play with for free, as opposed to getting into F#.NET, which probably has some resource that require Visual Studio?
So why the Minority report… well Haskell was boring and I noticed they had some videos about the minority report! This video demonstrates pointing and clicking using what is called the Sun Spot… there are other videos that describe what this is… the glove she is wearing is a virtual reality glove that she says she picked up on eBay… and then soldered into her sunspot to provide her with some sort of virtual reality Java enabled mouse… seems like it is a little clunky for my world domination plans… but it is moving in the right direction!
