Microsoft Research Podcast

007 - Functional Programming Languages and the Pursuit of Laziness with Dr. Simon Peyton Jones

When we look at a skyscraper or a suspension bridge, a simple search engine box on a screen looks tiny by comparison. But Dr. Simon Peyton Jones would like to remind us that computer programs, with hundreds of millions of lines of code, are actually among the largest structures human beings have ever built. A principle researcher at the Microsoft Research…