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Wine Bloggers Conference |
Monday, February 27, 2012
Our Vanishing Wine Bloggers
87 comments:
Ron, the irony is that the HoseMaster will be the last wine blogger.
- February 27, 2012 at 8:31 AM
- Samantha Dugan said...
And here I thought the comments were dwindling because everyone was intimidated by our brilliance. Sigh...depressing. Maybe we could start a foundation or something, if for no one else for STEVE! Poor guy, he really is the Susan Lucci of wine bloggers.
- February 27, 2012 at 8:32 AM
- Mockingbird said...
- February 27, 2012 at 8:38 AM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
Hey Andy,
Really? Me? I retire far too often for that to happen.
Samantha, My Love,
Isn't it just that everyone is bored with wine blogs? There used to be quite the circus here on HoseMaster, but Charlie, Thomas, Anonymous 1 and others are rarely sighted--like unicorns. I don't find this sad, really. More like inevitable. People stop by and read, but they move on quickly. It's the modern age of social media--people now have the attention spans of frankfurters, and think communication is about Twitter and FaceBook, which are sort of modern day versions of Morse code.
Wine blogs are boring for the most part. As you and I have talked about, there isn't anything new to say about wine. Nothing. All that's left is to talk about wine in an interesting, engaging, educated way. Maybe I should try that.
I love you! - February 27, 2012 at 8:52 AM
I predict that the last Wine Bloggers Conference will be at your place. In fact, it will be held in your bathroom as you squeeze out one last, er, post. - February 27, 2012 at 9:06 AM
- Thomas said...
Don't do that to me--make me laugh uncontrollably, that is.
Who's Susan Lucci--not.
The timeliness of this post is unbelievable. It arrived minutes after my first and only Google Adsense check arrived ($2.41--no kidding), and I haven't made a blog entry on vinofictions (plug) since December 2011.
Was it payment for shutting up? Who knows?
One reason blogs might be losing their status is these damned Google captchas are getting more difficult to identify, and more intrusive. - February 27, 2012 at 12:00 PM
- Samantha Dugan said...
Yeah, maybe it should be, "STEVE! is the Heimoff of wine bloggers" - February 27, 2012 at 12:04 PM
Hosemaster, Sir!
Actually, I am still here, if a bit quiet...thanks for noticing my lack of participation.
Having attended a number of "trade tastings" lately, I can assure you that there is no lack of bloggers posing as actual wine industry participants. They used to claim some affiliation with a restaurant ("Oh, I dine at House of Noodles all the time and they said it was okay to attend this tasting on their behalf," or such...) One fellow shows up at events saying he sells pension and retirement packages to winemakers and thus, he is a wine industry member. I suppose this means the guy who sold Helen Turley those boots is a wine business insider, doesn't it?
The good news about all of this blogging business is that the amount of graffiti spray-painted on city walls and highway overpasses is down, though many equate blogging as being in the same vein.
The level of enological blogging expertise is coming close to that of so-called "journalists." But part of this issue is many journalists aren't using the spittoon when tasting and they're, apparently, a bit hung-over when writing their articles.
(We've read articles where vintners are credited with making varieties of wine they actually do not produce...the producer is said to be in a particular region and they are not...etc. Shoddy writing and a lack of proof-reading...which means many "journalists" are capable of being bloggers--and many of them are!)
ANONYMOUS 1 - February 27, 2012 at 1:18 PM
- Thomas said...
"There used to be quite the circus here on HoseMaster, but Charlie, Thomas, Anonymous 1 and others are rarely sighted--like unicorns."
I just caught this: good grief, miss a post or two and you are branded a unicorn. Of course, after having taken four Lupron injections, being a unicorn seems like a nice thing to become...
Sorry, Mr. cylindricalmaster: I have a book to write--all other tasks are incidental, if not procrastinatingly wonderful. And now I will ask to be changed the two illegible captchas to something a human being can read. - February 27, 2012 at 4:52 PM
- Beau said...
What's going to happen when the wine conversation is played out? bloggers will be gone, the print media will wither (poor STEVE!), and the Hosemaster will be all alone.
- February 27, 2012 at 4:54 PM
- W. Blake Gray said...
Ron, somebody who knows you recently spent a few minutes trying to tell me that in person you are actually not the total jerk you are online.
I countered that I had never seen you write a nice thing about anyone, and that I also never see you add any actual information to the online discussion of wine.
Say what you want about the bloggers you despise, they often present original information, and debates on their sites are sometimes about issues, rather than the sophomoric bullying you provide.
You are supposedly a veteran sommelier. Can you tell us something interesting about wine? Can you praise someone or something? Or is this kind of emptyheaded negativity all you have to say? - February 27, 2012 at 5:23 PM
- Dean Tudor said...
No matter how cynical I get, I can never keep up.
- February 27, 2012 at 5:52 PM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
Mr. Gray,
You left out, "And you're not funny either." Though I suppose "sophomoric bullying" might cover that.
I may not be as good a satirist as you are a journalist, not a particularly high bar to get over, but my job, as I see it, isn't to add to the conversation, or flatter other bloggers, but to comment on the wine business and the wine blog world. Does anyone care what I think? Perhaps not, but I love the strange craft of parody and satire, and I thoroughly enjoy the sort of hate mail you've supplied. It's how I know I'm doing something right. How lovely of you to stand up for wine bloggers. I'm sure they'll rest easier tonight.
And you might also consider that the HoseMaster is a voice. I created it, I write it, I use it, but it isn't me. You can despise that voice, insult it, never read it again, none of that would matter even the tiniest bit. None of any of this, including your scholarly blog, genuinely matters. I don't read your blog, you don't have to read mine. Though it might make you laugh now and then; but, heaven knows, the wine business doesn't need laughter. It needs bloggers. - February 27, 2012 at 6:10 PM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
Jeez, man, I was just joshing. I know that you're busy writing another interesting book. Gosh, I hope it contributes to the wine conversation!
I vary my foolishness, excuse me, sophomoric bullying, here from extremely cynical to extremely stupid to extremely weird, just to keep myself from getting too bored. I'm surprised no one understood that this was my idea of Hope. - February 27, 2012 at 6:18 PM
- W. Blake Gray said...
Ron: I'm glad that what I wrote gave someone, you, some pleasure.
Try it sometime. - February 27, 2012 at 6:20 PM
- Marcia Macomber said...
Another unicorn checking in, HoseMaster, Sir! Had your post open all day, and this is the first I've been able to read it. So nice to have some proper Monday Satire to end the day.
Seems all the old gang (practically) has dragged in to be duly checked off in attendance. Perhaps some are still recovering from the conference. (But this doesn't seem to have slowed down Ms. Dugan at all.)
The Sermontation got the belly laughs going from the earlier snickers. Good thing there were no beverages in use. Otherwise they would have been sprayed across the keyboard. (Ewww!)
Word verif: Statioc tlyr (Is that some weird bird in the Arctic?) - February 27, 2012 at 7:02 PM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
Marcia Love,
Ah, but did I give you any pleasure? If not, please go directly to The Gray Report where pleasure is King. - February 27, 2012 at 9:02 PM
- Lousy Grapes said...
Who knew Gray was such a whiney baby sissy pants?
- February 27, 2012 at 9:32 PM
- Samantha Dugan said...
Okay, so I've bitten my tongue nearly in half but it seems that the fucker still has enough wiggle left to say a thing or two.
Mr. Gray,
The person that tried to convince you that Ron is a separate entity from the HoseMaster was spot on. Hell, if you were to meet him I'm sure you too would walk away with an understanding that Ron is a very sweet man that has this brilliant ability to see, and articulate through his fierce sense of humor, all the things that many of us know but are too chicken shit to admit or say. He writes this blog to make people laugh, some get it, other....clearly don't.
As a blogger that just spent a week traversing the bumpy waters of the "journalistic" set, with this man that took a week off of work to be there, at my side, supporting me and every second making me feel like I earned and deserved to be included with those professional wine writers I can tell you from the deepest part of my heart and comprehension, Ron Washam and The HoseMaster are in fact two very different things.
Can't think of many things more pleasurable than laughter, it surely isn't yet another "article" on alcohol percentages or fucking Robert Parker. If there is a reason wine blogging is sailing down the shitter that's it. Lack of imagination and a desperate aching for something refreshing, and honest. Hence the reason so many of us come here. To laugh at this business and those that are so self inflated as to think that our voices are going to make a difference.
Ron, I know you are going to send me a, "Mind your business" email about this but there was not a chance in hell I was going to let this just sail by without me adding my two cents. You were my hero four years ago when I first read you and now, as I've grown to know the real you, You sir are my hero still. I thank you for all that you do and for the man that you are. - February 27, 2012 at 9:37 PM
- Mockingbird said...
Maybe Ron should take the gig live and do a stand-up routine (as the Hosemaster, of cours) at the next Wine Bloggers Conference.
- February 27, 2012 at 11:36 PM
- Blogging Fool Daddy said...
I just lost an entire post to the capcha goblins.
You sure do have Sam fooled. Some of us know better.
You are the grinch who stole the grapes. - February 28, 2012 at 12:55 AM
- Joe said...
hee hee hee. few things more lovely in the world than exposing those who take themselves too seriously.
- February 28, 2012 at 6:01 AM
- Thomas said...
These days, I'm never sure when you are kidding me, as I know you take great pleasure in getting at someone so secure, so confident, so much the blogger of choice--or once was.
In any case--or I'll take a case of 1.5 litre bottles, thanks--my response to your unicorn could not possibly have made you think that I was serious. No, no man; there isn't a gray in my name or in my personality.
When the master of hoseirony misconstrues the master of sarcastrophy, what to do?
Once again, I am forced into trying to decipher Google's latest joke on the world--looks like spiroun mengthes. We shall see. - February 28, 2012 at 7:25 AM
Was I just mocked?
Hmmmm. Stand back. I've got something very important to say about all this.
Tom Wark.... - February 28, 2012 at 7:58 AM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
Samantha, My Love,
I'm touched that you feel the need to defend me, as I expected you would, but there's no need. I don't mind Mr. Gray going after me. And I'm far from defenseless. I'm sure that there are many people who have read HoseMaster who completely agree with his remarks. I run into them all the time at wine events. It comes with the territory. To his credit, Mr. Gray didn't post Anonymously, just as I don't. I applaud that sort of openness, even if he believes what our mothers used to say, "If you can't say anything nice..."
Standup is an art form I am particularly lousy at. And I value my life too much to appear at a Wine Bloggers Conference. That is, why would I waste it?
Here, on HoseMaster, I am always kidding.
The only one I've got fooled is myself. But I sure wish I'd been able to read your Google-destroyed post. To be honest, I feel like STEVE! Running a post about bloggers is the sure way to get a lot of comments. Pandering--a blogger's way of life.
Mocked? Heavens, no. Try to see the HoseMaster as a Tribute Band. A pale imitation of an original. - February 28, 2012 at 8:30 AM
- Thomas said...
Once again, I have been had.
Does that make me a had been?
If the Hosemaster does do stand up at the next Bloggers Conference, I might spring for a seat--close to the podium, as my throwing arm ain't what it used to be. - February 28, 2012 at 8:36 AM
Ron needs no defending. In fact, he needs commending because he reeled in yet another self-important, self-loathing, self-serving pseudo-journalist.
Got him hook, line and red-rimmed glasses, proving yet again that the purpose of the HoseMaster is to inject some yucks into our otherwise-humorless profession.
I learned that important lesson many years ago from my mentor Sgt. Hulka.
I am, once again, amused by the irony of Mr. Gray seeing the world strictly in shades of black and white. - February 28, 2012 at 10:04 AM
- Samantha Dugan said...
Oh trust me, I know Ron doesn't need my help or defending, in fact I was sure I was going to get my very own hate mail this morning when he read my comment and was even kind of glad my internet was out for a bit.
The HoseMaster hurls shit out there and is bound to ruffle a few feathers, I not only get that I actually love it, part of the reason I've been a fan for so long. That voice deserves much of the squawking but to go after or insult Ron as a person...well you will hear from me then. Even though I know it makes him cringe.
That HoseMaster asshole is on his own but Washam, well I've got his back.
Oh and does anyone else fucking hate this new comment format?! Ugh. - February 28, 2012 at 10:20 AM
- Connoissers' Guide Daddy said...
At the risk of losing yet another good bit of writing to the captcha gremlins, I have to disagree with you.
The Hosemaster needs lots of defending from people with no sense of humor. I know and like Gray Blake, or whatever his name is, but he can be thin-skinned at times and that is too bad.
But, when folks, even nice ones like Blake and Ken at Reign Of Terroir, get upset at comedy, then comedy itself, as well as the comedian, need defending lest we allow the too serious in our lives to take control.
The Hosemaster does not mind being acerbic, and we do not mind laughing with him. Some of us have even disagreed with him once or twice about his targets, but we do have to admit that his targets are usually speared in ways that most of us laugh most of the time.
As for me, well, I tried comedy over on my blog and got called a troll for being intentionally controversial in lampooing some of the low alcohol lunacy. In that case, however, I might have deserved it since so few understood that the point of the piece was to make fun of something silly I had read.
Anyone can try to be funny. Not many of us can keep up with the Hosemaster, which is why we all gather around his hearth whenever he decides to build the fire. - February 28, 2012 at 10:56 AM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
What's genuinely hilarious is being scolded by the likes of Mr. Gray. I didn't parody or even mention him. He left a positive comment on "Parkenstein," then decided I had to be educated about Poodles and my own emptyheaded negativity.
As a guy who has done this sort of crap all his life, I'm accustomed to his kind of finger-wagging. Mr. Gray no doubt feels proud of himself for telling me off. Therein lies the comedy.
It's rare that I'm insulted by a person with no sense of humor. It's usually someone who decides that he gets to determine which comedic targets are appropriate. His sensibility is offended, whether he has a sense of humor or not, so he believes deep down in his heart that he is doing everyone a favor by pointing out that what I'm doing is tasteless and negative and, even worse, not funny. It's almost sweet, in a way.
"Protect us from criticism and sarcasm! Our motives are pure and our message is important! Speak reverently or don't speak at all!" It's the message of all forms of tyrants. - February 28, 2012 at 11:25 AM
- Thomas said...
I love it when you get holier than thou. If I hadn't gotten to meet you, I'd mistakenly think you are sweet.
PS: Sam, I'm with you on the new comment format, mostly because the new doubled up captcha crap is truly annoying. It has me wondering how many illegible sequences we'll be required to figure out when 2013 rolls in and Google discovers that the present number is no longer secure. - February 28, 2012 at 12:13 PM
Mister Master
Sally Jessy Gray just does not get it. Most of us don't know how badly we need to laugh. The funniest part of all of this, it only took me forty years in this business to figure that out. - February 28, 2012 at 12:23 PM
- Fred Swan said...
Ron, you've gone to far this time and will be proved wrong!
The A's should finish 3rd, not last. - February 28, 2012 at 1:12 PM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
The A's might finish above the Mariners, I suppose, but only with the help of the newly born-again Manny Ramirez. God help him. But I wouldn't bet on it. They're already projected to finish in 5th place in 2013 behind the Houston Astros. - February 28, 2012 at 2:00 PM
Ron, I see you have 34 comments so far with less than half from your immediate family. Could it be that reports of you imminent death have been greatly exaggerated?
- February 28, 2012 at 2:49 PM
The Wine World is populated by a sizable percentage of dolts, so the question at this point should be: What does Gray Matter?
ANONYMOUS I - February 28, 2012 at 2:51 PM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
Hey Dave,
Every wine blogger knows that if you want a lot of comments write about wine bloggers. It's pandering, pure and simple. Have no fear, my next post will be back to the usual 3 comments.
Reports of my demise are to be fully believed. Everything I write from now on is posthumous. Just like Parker.
Anonymous 1,
Hmmmm... A brain fucker? - February 28, 2012 at 3:01 PM
38 comments so far. Not bad. How many did Blake get on his blog.
You bloggers are so funny.
In the end, blogging is a way for wine writers to prove their abilities without major publication. They all want to be like Pobert Rarcker. He makes good money, drinks tons of wine, and expenses all his meals...maybe. - February 28, 2012 at 3:48 PM
- Samantha Dugan said...
Blake has a blog?!
That makes 39....who's coming in for 40? - February 28, 2012 at 3:50 PM
Twitter/FaceBook = "modern day versions of Morse Code." That's interesting; that's engaging; that's insightful; that's actually brilliant. And that's why we will revisit the HoseMaster until the very (bitter) end -- not to learn about wine, not to laugh with him and at ourselves, but to learn about CULTURE! And where else can you get that?
- February 28, 2012 at 3:55 PM
- John M. Kelly said...
I don't know about anybody else, but I'm suffering from Social Media Fatigue. Maybe it is not just me, and the general lack of comments on wine blogs suggests it might not be just me. But seriously, I just come here to see how Ron has vented for me (make what you will of that, HMW).
BTW - you guys on the Blogger platform - this captcha code stuff is crap. Moderate your comments. - February 28, 2012 at 4:10 PM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
Man, it's been a while since I last tasted your family's wines. Always loved them, especially for the reasonable prices. Thanks for chiming in.
As to bloggers, I'll stand by my motto at the top of my blog. "Wine blogs are the attention barking of lonely poodles." Wine has a mysterious aura of class and sophistication, and lots of people want that aura to rub off on them. This includes winery owners, not just wine bloggers. I find joy in trying to bring it all down a notch.
I'm nothing if not quotable, but "brilliant?" Nah, I'm just odd. But thanks for the kind words.
That was my point entirely. Without comments, blogs die. I hope. Social Media destroy attention spans. Why comment when it's more important to move on to the next piece of social media crap? Social media aren't about engagement, they're about disengagement and narcissism. Which is why I love it here! - February 28, 2012 at 4:22 PM
Not you, Ron . . . the HoseMaster! I know what YOU are.
- February 28, 2012 at 4:41 PM
- PaulG said...
Señor Hose! Mi casa e su blanca page. An ode to you:
You must not kiss a frog,
A blog is just a blog,
The Dude is just a guy!
The fundamental jokes apply
As blogs go bye...
And when two bloggers spew,
They still think what they do
Must really signify.
On you we shall all rely
As blogs go bye... - February 28, 2012 at 4:51 PM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
Of all the wine blogs on all the platforms in all the world, you walk into mine... - February 28, 2012 at 6:02 PM
"Long time listener, first time caller"
Mr. Gray might have a few valid points...
"Say what you want about the bloggers you despise, they often present original information"
If you count "we make stuff up" then this must certainly be true, no?
and how about
debates on their sites are sometimes about issues
This is provably true. Now, "sometimes" might be a bit of puffery, but you can't really challenge it. "Sometimes" meteors cause mass extinctions on Earth.
Thanks for all you do. I've lurked since the tail end (so to speak) of the NSFW era, and you were sorely missed during the Dark Ages of HWM-less blog reading.
Great post, as always. ;)
By the way, I'm pretty sure that the Italian for Hosemaster is La Hosa Nostra. - February 28, 2012 at 8:16 PM
Who knew you bloggers had so much time to respond to this kind of stuff? Thoroughly enjoyable..
- February 28, 2012 at 9:06 PM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
Hey M.F.,
OK, so if you're going to finally come out of the lurker closet, make it a more regular thing. Not many of you around from the NSFW days of HoseMaster. Hell, I miss doing those Google image searches.
You've wonderfully dissected Mr Gray's points. Like we once dissected frogs in high school, only less guts are found. OK, I'm tired.
Yet Another Anonymous,
Wine bloggers have plenty of time. They spend almost no time writing posts or answering comments. May as well waste time on HoseMaster. I know I do. - February 28, 2012 at 9:54 PM
wow, I am so glad I don't actually have to write about wine and get to grow and make the stuff instead.. You guys seem to be grasping desperately at straws of self-importance.
If you all spent more time among the vines and at the crushpad, you might actually be relevant in todays wineworld. Good luck with that. - February 28, 2012 at 10:01 PM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
Actually, a whole bunch of these folks do make wine. But don't take us, and wine, so seriously.
And it's odd to accuse us of acting self-importantly and then in the next paragraph speak of how amazingly relevant what you do is.
However, "emptyheaded negativity" is always welcome here. - February 28, 2012 at 10:07 PM
- Samantha Dugan said...
Me thinks Phil might be a sheep in Arthur's clothing...
- February 28, 2012 at 10:24 PM
I just gotta say...Blake Gray has not posted an original, interesting, or well-written thought on his blog on years. Who pays him to do that? Oh that's right...NOBODY!
Susan McVEe - February 29, 2012 at 5:20 AM
- Thomas said...
53: let's go for broke.
Has it occurred to anyone that Google captchas may be behind the death of blog comments?
I mean, why the hell do they ask me if I want to identify with my Google account and then go ahead and un-recognize me when I comment?
Itr's been my contention for years that people who know all the 10101010 strings haven't a clue about reality. - February 29, 2012 at 8:26 AM
- Eric V. Orange said...
You've hit the comment JACKPOT.
Steady boy, easy.....
EVO - February 29, 2012 at 8:34 AM
You have quite a sense of humor, sort of Stephen Colbert, yes? You'll like this...How do you know someone is an MW? They tell you.
- February 29, 2012 at 8:35 AM
- Samantha Dugan said...
Yes! I was just saying that to Ron last week, he of course scoffed at me but it's kind of a bunch of hoops to jump through and I can't help but think that some people just don't bother. - February 29, 2012 at 8:52 AM
- Mitch Bakich said...
This had me belly laughing. Great piece of writing, Hosemaster. Now, can you put on a Red Beanie and read it in a Cousteau accent?
- February 29, 2012 at 8:53 AM
I thought you were kidding about comments being important on blogs but then you repeated it like you really believe it. Not so. Many people read wine blogs like magazines, they email and even send snail mail. Most interaction happens on Twitter, LinkedIn groups and FB, even for super stars. PS: Really like the picture with the WBC caption.
- February 29, 2012 at 9:05 AM
You could have just stopped at the caption.
- Strappo - February 29, 2012 at 9:13 AM
- Jo Diaz said...
I remember the day you said you were done blogging, and I said, "yeah... right."
- February 29, 2012 at 9:13 AM
- Stephen Coates said...
I come across the pomposity of the kid bullied in school who is now "sitting for the MS" nearly everyday. They espouse that all American wine is shite because it lacks terroir or acid or has too much alcohol. There are enough rat bastards in the world, that we in the wine world do not need to add.
Our vocation of choice brings joy to peoples lives; birthdays, anniversaries, Holidays, Tuesdays. Does wine need to be so over-thought and over-wrought that it can't just be fun anymore? If that's the case I'm moving to beer. Every brewer I meet has a smile and a hearty laugh. That's a better life. Celebrate it! - February 29, 2012 at 9:14 AM
- Creatures said...
As someone who does not blog and reads wine bloggers, I found your post hilarious. Thank you!
- February 29, 2012 at 9:45 AM
- Mockingbird said...
Stephen Coates:
You can't pay your mortgage, loans, rent or kids' college tuition with "fun".
Brewers know this - which is why they are brewers,and why they are laughing.... - February 29, 2012 at 10:25 AM
- Thomas said...
Why discuss such deep matters with Ron? A mere MS doesn't know squat.
Find yourself a MS; then, you'll have all the answers, including the one that deciphers chavehe nidecohk--I swear, one more of these and I am through commenting.
What number have we reached? - February 29, 2012 at 11:45 AM
- Thomas said...
Of course, I screwed up and meant to say, find yourself a MW, and now I've added yet another cpmment to the count:
ustrativ etituni - February 29, 2012 at 11:46 AM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
Thomas and Samantha,
Yeah, let's blame Google for the dearth of comments on wine blogs, not the emptiness and unoriginality of the contents. I'm for that.
I can't say that I do remember that, but I'm sure it's true. I really returned because of the Parker/Jay Miller scandal, and then decided I had more to say. Have no fear, I'll probably vanish again soon and then everyone can enjoy the hilarious hijinks over at 1WineDoody, Dubya Blake Gray, and the other various WineWench/Whore/Harlot/Bimbo/Slut/Anklegrabber/MS blogs. Though, Jo, you didn't say whether you're happy I'm back... - February 29, 2012 at 12:03 PM
- Stephen Coates said...
People who can't have fun in the wine business and still make money aren't doing it right. It's just grape juice. If anyone needs advice for their career or politicals, religion, relationships, I here to help. I'm a giver! - February 29, 2012 at 12:49 PM
- Mockingbird said...
I can see where, from your perspective, it's all fun when you don't have to grow it, make it, get it labelled and get a distributor to pick it up.
It's easy to have fun when you sell the products of other people's work - especially when there are more of those people than you have room for in your portfolio.... - February 29, 2012 at 12:55 PM
- Thomas said...
OK Stephen Coates, own up. You are a plant.
Who paid you? Pick one form the list:
RP, JM, AG, WBG, MS, TM, S!, #1, HM, KP, CO, JL, V, or I'ma95onthat.
To those who can fill in the names connected the above list--all of them--the HoseMaster will provide a free download of his basic course: How to become a Master Sommelier in five easy lessons or a pain in the ass in one. - February 29, 2012 at 12:59 PM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
Stephen and Mockingbird,
I can tell you it's hard work to make fun of the wine business too. But somebody has to do it.
Don't you have a book to write? (How's that for a pain in the ass lesson?) - February 29, 2012 at 1:08 PM
- Stephen Coates said...
So going into strange places, where people do and say strange/dangerous things, and where wine buyers are a bunch of egotistical pompous asses who say no all day because they have this Schopenhauer "Will To Power" thing going isn't real work or hard?
You could look at the other side differently: instead of grow the grapes, you could say work outside in the sunshine all day; instead of making wine you could say creating and tasting wine all day, instead of label it, maybe try make it presentable so others can enjoy the happiness in this bottle and instead of getting a distributor, maybe get some activists to espouse the joy that is found inside this bottle.
It's all how you look at it.If what you are doing sucks, don't do it anymore.
If I were a plant I would be a grape plant. You get to hang out in the sun all summer, sleep through winter and wake up in the spring refreshed, a new hair cut and better fruit. Cheers! - February 29, 2012 at 1:26 PM
- Thomas said...
Obviously, you don't know about the life of a Finger Lakes grape plant!
I feel for you. I have been on all sides of this business, from grape grower to winemaker and owner to distributor sales rep to retail owner. The only time I enjoyed it was when I was in the cellar making wine. My least favorite times: dealing with those Shopenhauers-- do I have stories.
Don't be a pain in the ass...I had a column deadline today; couldn't get any work done on the book, so took some time off to screw around on the Net, which is like self abuse without the fun part.
You should see what I wrote on Charlie's blog.
What's the comment count now? When will I see my check?
thiciti udinne
They misspelled Udine, capital of the other prosciutto and some wine. - February 29, 2012 at 1:51 PM
- Samantha Dugan said...
Clocking it at 73 and I too should be working but am now going to go play with Thomas on Charlie's blog.
- February 29, 2012 at 1:59 PM
- Steve Heimoff said...
It's only rock and roll but I like it, yes I do!
- February 29, 2012 at 4:59 PM
- 1winedude said...
I was gonna comment but I found out that I'd vanished and then I was all like "sh*t, I'm all vanished and sh*t" but then I drunk up some free samples and I was all like "righteous, this is THE HOSE and it's all GOOD, MAN!" but then I saw all the back and forth in the comments and then I was all like "DANG!" and then I got depressed but then I read that the Hose said none of it really mattered so now I'm just like... uhm... aw, man, now I done lost my train of thought.
- February 29, 2012 at 5:21 PM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
STEVE! and 1WineDoody,
Man, you guys are late to this wake. And thanks for showing up drunk. - February 29, 2012 at 6:22 PM
- 1winedoody said...
At least I stopped producing my crappy content long enough to show up to pay respects - we can both agree that counts as progress. And let's get to the real heart of the matter here, which is that if you keep mentioning me on your blog you will have to change your name to STEVE!...
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- Ron Washam, HMW said...
My crappy content kicks your crappy content's ass. But thanks for dropping by between junkets. I promise not to mention you ever again if you'll promise to remember me when you're co-host of Playboy After Dark. What wine goes with bunny? Maybe Pousse d'Or?
I'd change my name to STEVE! but I don't got the tats. Hey, maybe you could swap with STEVE! Tits for tats! - February 29, 2012 at 9:45 PM
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- March 1, 2012 at 12:23 AM
- Blogging Daddy said...
I don't get all this "wine business is not fun". Most of the folks who make wine are having fun.
But, if you are not, you might want to try life in the storm door business.
Note to Tom P. Thanks for mentioning my blog. I think it was the post on name-dropping, and I see you are still at it. Keep it up.
You are in good company. Just this week, both Blake Gray and Harvey Steiman dropped by. Ron may have 80 comments but I have Harvey. We both bragged about our friendships with Joe Heitz. That is what happens when it is not possible to diss Parker or the 100-point system anymore.
And, Mr. P, while I dislike this new captcha thingy, I have to agree with Ron that the lack of interesting content is what is "doing in" the blogosphere. - March 1, 2012 at 12:54 AM
- Thomas said...
I;d argue with Charlie and Hose about what is doing int he blogosphere, but I don;t want to go through the captcha anymore than I have to...but it does help with my lexdislia.
Now, dear readers who hinge on my every word, I must go to work. I can feel the hot breath of a publishing editor on my neck--wish it were a she! - March 1, 2012 at 7:36 AM
I couldn't read all the comments (will do on a slow day).
Forget Blake.
Truth is...
Blogs are needed for links from Twitter
Real content is needed for links from Twitter
Nobody pays for all this stuff..that is why wine (other?) bloggers are a dying breed.
And anyone who writes well should be paid well.
Mark Twain...Hosemaster.
(ps I agree with Charlie, your new "Please provide you're not a robot"are difficult..is Santorum trying to post?) - March 3, 2012 at 11:34 AM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
Nice to be mentioned in the same sentence with Mark Twain, but that's nuts on the face of it. Twain was a genius, like Dr. Seuss, and I'm not in that league in anyone's book. Certainly not my own.
The wine biz doesn't really respond well to satire, which is what makes it a fun target. I'd love to get paid for writing this crap (there was a time I did, but that's ancient history), but don't expect to. And when you write satire, those who pay you get very picky about what you write anyway. Here I can say whatever I like and that's liberating.
The reward isn't monetary, but having an audience is rewarding in other ways. I like making people laugh, and think, and take offense. It is the role of the Fool, and that's a role I've loved since I was a kid.
Thank you for your kind words, Kathy, they are much appreciated. - March 3, 2012 at 6:08 PM
- WineWonkette said...
Social media didn't destroy attention spans Rupert Murdoch owns that trophy. Some of us cut down on the blogging because one more Valentine's Day Gifts for the Wine Lover was not in us. Or our day jobs, which have nothing whatsoever to do with wine (albeit the amount we consume), are taking up way too much of our "free time."
Glad to see you are back, you must have heard us talking about you!
And thanks to you I'm now late for work! - March 13, 2012 at 8:00 AM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
Hi Amy,
Didn't you used to hate me? Ah well, that's a big pack of Poodles. I can't remember who was in it and who wasn't any more.
I'd actually argue that MTV began the trend of shortening attention spans, but I'm all for blaming Rupert Murdoch for everything horrible in life since he ruined my baseball team, the Dodgers, by selling them to that scumbag real estate scam artist from Boston.
I find it hard to believe anyone was talking about me or my stupid blog. But thanks for that. I think it's nice to be back, but, trust me, most days it ain't worth being the HoseMaster.
Blogs are a grind. I'm happier this time around because I no longer fret at all about stats or comments or anything but the work. Not trying to impress anyone, just trying to coax some laughter out of what is otherwise a dull and rather humorless crowd. Or at least piss off somebody who deserves it.
Sorry to make you late for work. Did you forget it was Daylight Savings Time? - March 13, 2012 at 2:47 PM
- funwithbooze said...
Ron, My beloved Pittsburgh Pirates have been in last place far longer than the Oakland As. Come on, if you want to epitomize something use the epitome of it.
- March 31, 2012 at 11:38 AM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
I hear you, but as a kid I loved the Pirates. I grew up in Long Beach, CA, so I am a Dodger fan (we'll be fine now that the crook from Boston was forced to sell the team), but my second favorite team was the Pirates. The glory days of Clemente, then Stargell and Dave Parker, even the years with Bonilla, Van Slyke and a skinny Barry Bonds. Even last year when they were great for two thirds of a season I was really pulling for them.
So I just didn't have the heart to dump on 'em.
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UNC Chapel Hill
Course: Introduction to Functional Programming
Student background: solid background in high-school science and mathematics
Materials: Hugs 1.4 incl. Active Haskell, FRAN and Haskore; Simon Thompson, "Haskell: The Art of Functional Programming"
Web page: http://www.cs.unc.edu/~prins/Classes/15/
(Introductory programming course for CS and math/science majors, typically Freshman and Sophomores. Class size ~60)
Our undergraduate computing environment is now largely PCs running Windows NT. We use NTEmacs as the programming environment with a slightly modified version of Emacs hugs mode with hugs running as a subprocess. The combined hugs/NTEmacs/Active Haskell distribution (available through course home page) is installed on 400+ public Win NT machines on campus and some unknown number of student-owned Win 95/98 machines.
This arrangement is new this semester, but so far has been working well. Keystroke-oriented interactive applications may be problematic with hugs running in NTEmacs shell mode.
I'm planning assignments using Fran and Active Haskell and will try teaching the "brief introduction to imperative programming" at the end of the class using monads. I would be interested in talking with anyone who has experience or suggestions along these lines.
I took a cue from Paul Hudak and others and have occasional appearances of MS Agents during lectures to wake students up!
This is my first time teaching this course, and I would enjoy talking to others teaching at a similar level. A cursory search on the web didn't reveal many courses in this category.
Instructor: David Sands
University of Gothenburg & Chalmers University of Technology
Course: Programmering för Naturvetare
Student background: New students
Materials: hugs 1.4; Simon Thompson
Web page: http://www.md.chalmers.se/Cs/Grundutb/Kurser/nptah/
This is the first part of a first course in programming. About 16 lectures, each 2x45 mins plus weekly exercise classes and three assessed programming exercises. Most of my materials are in English.
Instructor: Marcos A Rodrigues
The University of Hull, Hull, UK
Course: Functional and Logic Programming
Student background: none
Materials: hugs 1.4; Haskell: the Craft of Functional Programming. Thompson S., Addison Wesley, 1996.
Instructor: Torsten Grust
University of Konstanz (Germany)
Course: Deklarative Programmierung (Declarative Programming, in german)
Student background: basic math, no programming background required
Materials: Hugs 1.4; (~300) slides available from the course web page;
Jeroen Fokker's classroom text: Functional Programming
Richard Bird, Phil Wadler: Introduction to Functional Programming; Simon Peyton-Jones: Implementation of Functional Programming Languages
Web page: http://www.fmi.uni-konstanz.de/dbis/Courses-old/Courses-ss98/decl-ss98.html
The course is in German only (sorry about that). It additionally features an introduction to logical programming and Prolog.
Instructor: Richard Buckland
University of New South Wales
Course: Computing 1A
Student background: Mixed, some have no computing
background. This is our cs1 subject.
Materials: Hugs 1.4; Simon Thompson
Web page: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~cs1011
Instructor: Robert Giegerich, Stefan Posch, University Bielefeld, Germany
Course: Introduction to Computer Science
Student background: Completed High School (Abitur)
Materials: Hugs; Class Notes by Robert Giegerich and Ralf Hinze
Our first semester course uses Haskell as a vehicle to fundamental aspects of computation: algorithmics, specification and verification, efficiency analysis, programming methods. This works wonderfully. We do not require previous or additional programming experience. Haskell is quickly learned, to the necessary degreee; we make no attempt to cover the full language. This is NOT a Haskell course! Haskell allows us to speak about concepts of computer science WITHOUT a lot of language learning. And Haskell even helps to keep out detrimental habits from previous programming experience, as well as motivational problems resulting from the widely differing previous experiences of our incoming students.
Instructor: Håkan Jonsson Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
Course: SMD001, functional programming
Student background:
None. This is the very first programming course
our students take.
Materials: Simon Thompson's Haskell book + 7 laboratory/programming
assignments using Hugs.
Web page:http://www.sm.luth.se/csee/courses/smd/001/ (mostly Swedish)
Instructor: [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com Clem Baker-Finch, Australian National University
Course:Introduction to Programming and Algorithms
Student background: No programming background was
Materials: GHC, GHCi, Simon Thompson 1st ed., my own materials.
Web page: http://cs.anu.edu.au/Student/comp1100/
The first 75% of the course is basic programming concepts using Haskell. The remainder covers the same concepts in Java. This is reinforced - hopefully - by the third assignment (in Java) being the same as the first assignment (in Haskell). The aim is to provide a managed transition to the course which follows in second semester. Another point of possible interest is the use of a simple graphics library, ANUPlot, built on top of the OpenGL binding. See http://code.google.com/p/anuplot/
Instructor: Lyndon While The University of Western Australia
Course: Foundations of Computer Science
Student background: None
Materials: hugs 98; Thompson.
Web page: http://undergraduate.cs.uwa.edu.au/courses/230.123
Instructor: José A. Alonso Jiménez Dept of Computer Science and A.I., University of Seville, Spain
Course: Informatics (Informática, in spanish)
Student background: None. This is the very first programming course
our students take.
Materials: GHCi, Emacs, Graham Hutton: "Programming in Haskell", Slides, Exercises, Exams
Web page: http://www.cs.us.es/~jalonso/cursos/i1m (in spanish)
First run: 2009–2010
Last run: 2019–2020
Instructor: Jan van Eijck University of Amsterdam & Centrum Wiskunde en Informatica, The Netherlands
Course: Functional Specification of Algorithms
Student background: This is a course in the Master of Logic at ILLC
Materials: The Haskell Road to Logic, Maths and Programming, Slides, Exercises. Software: previously Haskell Platform, now stack.
Web page: http://homepages.cwi.nl/~jve/courses/16/fsa/
First run: 2012
Last run: 2016
Haskell as a second language
These courses teach Haskell to students that have already learned another language.
Instructor: Rex Page
University of Oklahoma
Course: Discrete Mathematics
Student background: High-school mathematics, introductory programming
course (any language)
Materials: Lecture notes, Projects, Exams, Solutions, Proof checking
tools, etc.; text: Hall and O'Donnell, "Discrete Mathematics with a
Web page: http://www.cs.ou.edu/~beseme/
Lecture notes comprise over 350 animated slides (all both PowerPoint and PDF formats). About two-thirds of the material centers around mathematical logic. After the introduction of predicates, all of the examples in the logic portion of the course involve reasoning about properties of software, most of which is expressed in Haskell (a few are conventional looping functions).
Software examples include sum, sequence concatenation, logical operations on sequences, the Russian peasant algorithm, insertion and lookup in AVL trees, and other computations. Most of the properties verified relate to aspects of program correctness, but resource utilization properties are also verified in some cases. Several semesters worth of exams (finals and exams given during the term) are provided. The slides have matured through several offerings of the course.
The remaining third of the course discusses other standard topics in discrete mathematics, such as sets, functions, relations, trees, and counting. The web page provides access to a preview of the material. Exams and solutions are protected by a login procedure (to increase the comfort level of instructors wishing to use them in courses). The web page provides a link through which instructors may gain access to the full website.
Instructor: Jose Emilio Labra Gayo,
Dept. of Computer Science (EUITIO) University of Oviedo
Course: Logic and Functional Programming
Student background: The course is oriented towards third year undergraduate students in computer science. Usually, the students have been
introduced to imperative languages like Pascal and Object
Oriented Languages like C++
Materials: Hugs; R. Bird "Introd. to FP using Haskell" (2nd Ed), J. E. Labra Gayo. "Introduction to the Haskell Language" (in spanish).
Web page: http://lsi.uniovi.es/~labra/plf.html (in spanish).
My FP page: http://lsi.uniovi.es/~labra/FuncProg.html
Instructor: Fritz Ruehr
Willamette University, Salem, Oregon, USA (a small Liberal Arts College, about 1 hour from Portland & OGI)
Course: CS 451 Topics in Computer Science: Functional Programming
Student background: Data structures (I may also have required discrete math)
Materials: Hugs 1.4 beta (I also taught Scheme); Haskell: The Craft of Functional Programming by Simon Thompson (I also used my own on-line lecture notes and labs and Kent Dybvig's text on Scheme)
Web page: http://www.willamette.edu/~fruehr/451/
The notes and labs I have on-line are in pretty rough form: many slide points are just one-line topical stubs I used as reminders in lecture. Many of the on-line materials are not linked into the (out of date) home page.
I hope to have the course approved for next Fall as a regular offering (i.e., not as a "special topic") and should have more extensive on-line materials up by then.
Teaching "bi-lingually" in Haskell and Scheme seemed like a good idea at the time, but next time around I will use Haskell as the main vehicle, perhaps taking some time near the end of the course to highlight some other languages (Scheme, ML, Clean).
Some of my students used Conal Elliot's Fran and Paul Hudak's Haskore and liked them a lot; I was nice to have some significantly-sized applications that seemed more practical and fun to show off at the end of the course (I should have demonstrated these things at the beginning of the course to help with motivation). Next time around I would like to have a "beginner's prelude" or similar available to avoid problems with classes in type inference, Int vs. Integer, etc. These problems were a constant annoyance during lectures.
Instructor: John Hamer,
University of Auckland
Course: Logic and Functional Programming
Student background: Year 2 programming + some discrete maths
Materials: Hugs 98, Haskell School of Expression, Page "Two Dozen Short Lessons in Haskell",
Web page: http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/compsci360fc
Instructor: Chris Lengauer
University of Passau
Course: Functional Programming
Student background: two years of CS study
Materials: hugs; Richard Bird's new text (PHI)
Web page: not reachable from outside Passau
Instructor: Conrad Cunningham
University of Mississippi
Course: Functional Programming
Student background: official -- senior or graduate standing; actual -- introductory programming, data structures, and discrete math
Materials: Hugs on Unix and MS Windows systems;
Mostly use the instructor's own set of lecture notes. Also Simon Thompson's HASKELL: THE CRAFT OF FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING. Previously used the Bird and Wadler textbook
Web page: http://www.cs.olemiss.edu/~hcc/csci555/
Although I am not a researcher in FP, I enjoy teaching the FP course. Most of the students take to the course after a few weeks. Hugs works reasonably well, but, of course, more pedagogically oriented error messages and other support tools would be helpful.
Instructor: Gary T. Leavens,
Iowa State University
Course: Programming Languages 1
Student background: undergraduate course in compilers or programming languaages
Materials: Hugs 1.4; Thompson's Haskell: The Craft of Programming
Web page: http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~leavens/ComS541.html
Be sure to tell your students how to debug programs.
Instructor: John O'Donnell
University of Glasgow
Course: Functional Programming
Student background: Programming (in Ada), Algorithmic Foundations
Materials: Hugs; Simon Thompson's book on Haskell
Web page: http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/courses/teaching/level2/modules/#FP2
Instructor: Olaf Chitil,
RWTH Aachen, Germany
Course: Functional Programming in Haskell
Student background: basic programming skills (not necessarily in a
functional language)
Materials: Hugs 1.4; Hugs user manual, slide copies;
additionally the `Gentle Introduction to Haskell', probably Bird's `Introduction
to Functional Programming using Haskell' in the future.
Web page: http://www-i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Praktikum/SWP/ (in German)
The course starts with 4 full time days of learning Haskell. During the semester the students (in groups of 2 students) have to implement a compiler and an abstract machine for a simple imperative language. They are given parts of the system and a manual on how to do the remaining parts (they have no prior knowledge on compiler construction). The most difficult construct for students to understand is the monad. I introduce IO without mentioning monads. Later I explain how to build a simple exception handling system based on the type `Maybe a' / `Error a'. Only subsequently I give the general definition of monads and present the list monad and a simple state monad. However, I fear that just to understand the bind operator `>>=' requires people to be quite comfortable with higher-order functions.
Instructor: Richard Bird, Oxford Brookes University
Course: Functional Programming
Student background: Elementary structured programming
Web page: http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/courses/topics00-01/fp/
Instructor: Paul Hudak,
Yale University, Dept of Computer Science
Course: Functional Programming
Student background: at least one programming course
Materials: Hugs; my own textbook, which is under preparation
Web page: none
Instructor: Alex Ferguson
University College Cork
Course: Functional and Logic Programming
Student background: Final year undergraduate
Materials: Final year undergraduate
Materials: Hugs 98; ghc; Simon Thompson, "Haskell: The Craft of
Functional Programming" (2nd ed.)
Web page: http://yeats.ucc.ie/~abf/CS4001/
This is the declarative programming option for 4th year undergrads, who have Java as a first programming language, and some knowledge of C and C++. The current final year have had some exposure to Haskell in first year, though this is no longer the case for our current intake.
Instructor: Leif Kusoffsky,
Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
Course: Functional Programming 2D1370
Student background: The course is oriented towards third year
undergraduate students in computer science. The students
have been introduced to imperative languages like
C and Object Oriented Languages like Java
Materials: Hugs; Hudak : The Haskell School of Expression
Instructor: Jeremy Bobbio -- INSIA
Course: Functional and Logic Programming
Student background: One year CS
Hugs, GHC, Paul Hudak's Haskell School of Education
Web page: http://etudiants.insia.org/~jbobbio/pafp/ (french)
Instructor: Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
University of Jyväskylä
Course: Functional Programming 1 & 2
Student background: third-year undergraduate and up
GHC, Gtk2HS
Web page: [1]
Last run: 2005–2006
Instructor: David Duke
University of Leeds, School of Computing
Course: Functional Programming
Student background: Second and third year undergraduate
Materials: ghc; Graham Hutton "Programming in Haskell"
Web page: www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/se23/
This is an optional course that students currently can take in second or third year (from 2008/9 it will be third-years only). Students will have previously used Python and Java. Although the emphasis is on learning to solve problems within the functional paradigm, and how to develop solutions within Haskell, I also like to show students what is "under the bonnet" and conclude the module with an introduction to implementation issues, using material derived from "Implementing Functional Languages" by Simon Peyton Jones and David Lester.
Instructor: Popa V. Dan
University of Bacau, Romania
Course: "Limbaje formale si automate" (Formal languages and automata)
Student background: second-year undergraduate
Materials: Hugs 98 (2002 revised version) included in Mandriva (Formely Mandrake) 10.0 Linux Distribution
Web page: Not yet. Try the page of the "ro" community on www.haskell.org
Ro/Haskell webpage is here
First run: 2006–2007
Haskell is used as an implementation languages in student's laboratories. The ideea was to provide a language powerfull enough to be able to express how to build a parser starting from a grammmar. The students are able to build small (monadic) interpreters for "while-languages" using a recommanded monad and a recommanded back-end. The labs are focusing on the grammar of the languages, on the modular (monadic) parsing as a tool for verifying and processing inputs which are not validable by finite state automata but by context free grammmars. Adaptability of the language, especially obtained manipulating and improving syntax is also a target. Support (concerning Haskell): "O introducere in Haskell prin exemple" by Dan Popa, published in january 31,2007 by Edusoft(in romanian) Contact the author if needed . Other recommanded books: "Gentle Introd to Haskell 98" and YAHT Recomanded papers: All about monadic parsing. Special message for Graham Hutton, Erik Meijer and P. Wadler and all other authors with similar interests from the Haskell community:
Thank you very much for your papers concerning Monadic parsing and interpreters !
List of Instructors: Involved people [1] National and Technological University, Buenos Aires, Argentina (Universidad Tecnológica Nacional - Facultad Regional Buenos Aires)
Course: Programming Paradigms
Student background: This is a second-year undergraduate course. Students have already been introduced to basic structured programming concepts.
Materials: Pharo Smalltalk; LOOP [2] , SWI-Prolog, Hugs, GHC, "Learn You a Haskell For a Great Good" (Spanish Version), Lecture Notes, Exams.
Web page: You can find our homepage in here (Only Spanish Version).
Students are being introduced to three main programming paradigms:
• Object Oriented Programming
• Logical Programming
• Functional Programming
Comparative programming languages
These courses teach general programming language principles, with Haskell as an example of a functional language.
Instructor: Ruediger Marcus Flaig, University of Heidelberg (Germany)
Course: An introduction to programming in bioinformatics
Student background: different, but generally low
Materials: Hugs-98 and lots of other stuff
Web page: http://www.sanctacaris.net/rc.html
This course is designed to introduce life science students, that is to say, going-to-be biologists, physicians, biotechnologists and maybe others, to solving real-life problems (such as DNA sequence handling and analysis). Emphasis will be on paradigms (imperative / OO, functional, declarative). Although -- in order not to frighten people -- the official announcement mentions only Python, Haskell will be presented as THE purely functional language, and all solutions may be presented in either Python, Haskell or Java. I am very curious about the feedback I'll get, and maybe next term we shall focus more on Haskell. What I'd really need, though, is some life science related package for Haskell, such as BIOPYTHON and BIORUBY.
Instructor: Hamilton Richards,
University of Texas (Austin)
Course: Programming Languages (taught in 2005)
Student background:
Materials: Hugs 1.4; Sethi, Davie.
Web page: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/ham/UTCS/CS345/
I'm using Haskell in a programming-languages course, but it's distributed somewhat piecemeal through the course. Probably adds up to something like 3-4 weeks (out of 15).
Instructor: Mark Utting
University of Waikato (New Zealand)
Course: Programming Languages
Student background: Two years of C++ and 1 year of Haskell
Materials: Textbook "Programming Languages", Louden.
Web page: http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~marku/313
The course covers at least two languages in each of the main paradigms (object-oriented, functional and logic programming), plus history, semantics and implementation issues. The Haskell section is about 2 weeks long and usually focusses on programming with higher-order functions and how that enables the language to be extended in application-specific ways (parser combinators, html-generation combinators etc.)
Instructor: M Zeeshan Ali Ansari,
Asia Pacific Institute of Information Technology (Pakistan)
Course: Advanced Programming Language Concepts
Student background: Students having studied and worked on Imperative Programming Languages
Materials: The Craft of Haskell, A Gentle Introduction to Haskell, Yet Another Haskell Tutorial.
Web page: http://www.apiit.edu.pk
This course compares and contrasts various programming language paradigms including Functional Programming. Out of 13 week course 5 to 6 of them are dedicated towards Haskell. The material is basically written in a way that enables imperative language programmers to understand the concepts and power of functional programming
Instructor: John C. Mitchell,
Stanford University
Course: Programming Languages
Student background: Some experience with Lisp/C/object-oriented languages.
Materials: Concepts in Programming Languages (new Haskell chapters written with Kathleen Fisher)
Web page: http://cs242.stanford.edu
Central concepts in modern programming languages, impact on software development, language design trade-offs, and implementation considerations. Functional, imperative, and object-oriented paradigms. Formal semantic methods and program analysis. Modern type systems, higher order functions and closures, exceptions and continuations. Modularity, object-oriented languages, and concurrency. Runtime support for language features, interoperability, and security issues.
Advanced functional programming using Haskell
These courses deal with the advanced issues such as semantics, type systems, or compilers. Includes a other advanced courses taught using Haskell.
Instructor: Graham Hutton
School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham
Course: Advanced Functional Programming
Student background: At least one year of CS, including a course in Haskell
Materials: Hugs; GHC; Graham Hutton, Programming in Haskell; own course material
Web page: http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/afp.html
Instructor: Alejandro Russo
Chalmers University, Gothenburg
Course: Advanced Functional Programming
Student background: General CS maturity; from this year most students have already used Haskell in introductory courses.
Materials: Real World Haskell as the course book; Papers (see web page)
Web page: http://www.cse.chalmers.se/edu/course/afp/
The emphasis is on design and use of suitable combinator libraries to simplify applications. Material covered includes monad design, monad transformers, functors, applicative functors, embedded domain specific languages, shallow and deep embeddings, libraries for parsing, and program derivation.
This course is optional in the third or fourth year, and is taken by a small-to-medium sized group of students.
Instructor: Olof Johansson, Umeå Univesity, Department of Computing Science
Course: Programming language semantics
Student background: two terms of computer science studies and specificaly a course Programming language concepts
Materials: Hugs and some HBC and GHC; Watt, Programming language, Syntax and Semantics
Web page: http://www.cs.umu.se/local/kurser/TDBC05 (Only in swedish)
Instructor: Lyndon While
The University of Western Australia
Course: Functional Programming
Student background: OOP, plus most of them have used Haskell previously
Materials: hugs 98; none of the recent books really fit
Web page: http://undergraduate.cs.uwa.edu.au/courses/230.301
Instructor: Fethi Rabhi,
University of Hull (UK)
Course: AI Problem Solving Techniques (using Haskell and Prolog)
Student background: Haskell and Prolog programming
Materials: HUGS; Thompson'96, own notes (soon to be published as a book).
Web page: none
It is very hard to justify learning Haskell unless it can be demonstrated in very practical situations (hence the provision of the above course).
Instructor: Jerzy Karczmarczuk
University of Caen, Caen (France)
No links in the fr-Haskell page. Why not ?
Course: Compilation
Student background: General CS knowledge; students (should...) know Scheme and imperative languages, also some theory of languages and automata.
Hugs, GHC, now also GHCi, and their documentation. Handouts: (still a little incomplete)
Impossible to find the foolowing matterials.Files can not be found.
- http://users.info.unicaen.fr/~karczma/matrs/Maitcomp/compilation_a.pdf
- http://users.info.unicaen.fr/~karczma/matrs/Maitcomp/compilation_b.pdf
- http://users.info.unicaen.fr/~karczma/matrs/Maitcomp/compilation_c.pdf
This is a compulsory semestrial course in fourth year. Weekly: 1.5h course, 2.5H practice. One, but comprehensive assignment, taking 2 months or more. askell is our main coding tool. A little time is devoted by necessity to the language itself, but also from the perspective: "how would you compile such a language". "Standard stuff", such as parsing combinators, etc.is covered, but we don't begin with that. We start with the construction of small interpreters: from recursive Lisp-style to postfix, (Forth/PostScript style) constructing this last by partial evaluation (intuitively). We introduce control structures as lazy functions, operation sequencing through continuations, monads not only for parsing, but also for exceptions and non-determinism. We discuss (simply) the type inference. The code generator assembles a linear code by lazy concatenation of chunks which makes it trivial to deal with loops and cross-referencing fragments. Algorithms of garbage collection are presented (not implemented, though...) in a purely functional style.
Students' opinion: "Frightening at first. Learning curve steep, but much less time spent on debugging, coding proficiency comes fast. Good for understanding what the compilation is about, but difficult to make a complete running program with all the I/O, etc.
Instructor: Jeffrey A. Meunier, University of Connecticut
Course: CSE240 Intermediate Computer Systems
Student background: computer/microprocessor organization
Materials: Hugs (Feb 2001); Bird ``Introduction to Functional
Programming; Furber ``ARM System-on-Chip Architecture
Web page: http://www.engr.uconn.edu/~jeffm/Classes/CSE240-Spring-2001/index.html
This is a course in the low level programming of microprocessor systems. The course will focus on the development of an emulator (virtual machine, or VM) for a small computer system based on a modern RISC microprocessor (the ARM CPU) using a high level programming language (Haskell), and assembly language programming of the VM. Development of the VM will occur in stages, starting with the simple direct-execution (stream-based) model, gradually moving to a more realistic memory-mapped model, including exception handlers, concurrent processes, and asynchronous external devices.
Instructor: Gabriele Keller
The University of New South Wales
Course: Concepts of Programming Languages
Student background: Most of them have used Haskell in first year
Materials: GHC, TaPL and `Programming Languages: Theory and Practice', papers
Web page: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~cs3161
Last run: 2006
Expose students to a theory of programming languages based on type theory and operational semantics as a mathematically sound framework which allows us to investigate the properties of a large number of programming language features, including:
- on semantics of different programming languages and programming paradigms: imperative, object oriented, and declarative.
- theoretical foundations of programming languages: syntax, operatational, axiomatic and denotational semantics.
- implementation aspects of central language features, such as dynamic and strong typing, polymorphism, overloading and automatic memory management
Assignments are in GHC/Haskell, and in the past have included implementing a mini-Haskell type checker, type inference and interpreter.
Instructor: Manuel Chakravarty
The University of New South Wales
Course: Advanced Functional Programming
Student background: Most of them have used Haskell in first year
Materials: GHC, papers (see the website)
Web page: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~cs4132
Last run:2004
To provide students with an understanding of the theory and practice of the design, use, and implementation of functional programming languages, such as Haskell
This includes selected topics from the following areas:
- Foundations: lambda calculus, semantics, and type systems.
- Design: side-effects, exceptions, concurrency, and parallelism.
- Implementation: abstract machines, program transformation, and memory management.
- Programming techniques: combinator libraries, monads, generic programming, and meta programming.
- Applications: domain specific languages, graphics, web programming, reactive systems, and scientific programming.


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Though there might be dangers for some businesses in departing too early or too far from their core competencies, for others such diversification might provide more stability and a stronger cash flow in a volatile market.
Such growth can be achieved either by additional investment within your existing business structure or through an appropriate merger or acquisition.
Sometimes it can be very effective to arrange joint ventures with businesses that have complimentary assets or skills before venturing outside the sectors that are known to you.
If you are looking for support and assistance from experienced accountants and business advisers, Chalmers HB can help you.