I thought, "surely this is satire". "Fantasyland Institute of Learning"? Alas, it seems they're serious.https://twitter.com/lambda_conf/status/803695008100466688 …
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I believe the aim is to help categorise conference talks to help potential attendees. But this over simplifies things.
e.g. as a speaker I don’t think I could helpfully put a talk into any of those categories… I’d rather be explicit about prereqs.
I know that's the stated purpose, but there's enough academics around to know this sort of thing isn't pedagogically useful…
the typical Erlang talk wouldn't fit into that framework for instance
this belies the general attitude that "serious" FP-ers have towards dynlangs, so @edwinbrady
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