[vaylian]

I don't know him yet. Are there some talks you can recommend that would be a good starting point?

[ReleaseCandidat]

That must of course be "Haskell is useless" https://youtu.be/iSmkqocn0oQ?si=IkTHHdH1423tOVvz

But apart from that, his enthusiasm can even make the mseemingly most boring topic interesting.

I'd personally start either at "the story of Haskell" Escape from the Ivory Tower https://youtu.be/cOqxiS-WN1w?si=1iXpGE7cJZa4tbbJ Or something more recent, about Epic's Verse https://youtu.be/OJv8rFap0Nw?si=OE2mUllQfLmV29Bk

[endgame]

And if Haskell isn't your jam, maybe Excel is more to your taste? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH2Je6wUvPs

[keithalewis]

It's only the most popular programming language in the world.

[endgame]

And it's functional, too!

[dualogy]

> But apart from that, his enthusiasm can even make the seemingly most boring topic interesting.

Totally, his ever-fresh, ever-genuine excitement with all this stuff is so contagious (for the duration, and then some =)