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Can you recommend some good downloadable podcasts and videos on Functional Programming languages. Pure and non pure: Scala, Haskell, ML, Miranda, Scheme, Lisp, Erlang, Clojure, Jaskell, Functional Programming in Perl5 and Perl6, FP in Python, FP in Ruby? Either theories or latest issues?

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I find Clojure's documentation very good. – Job Jun 24 '11 at 19:06

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There are many fine videos and tutorials on the Haskell wiki:

Including complete videos from the past several Haskell Symposia; the complete "Introduction to Functional Programming" by Erik Meijer; Simon Peyton Jones' A Taste of Haskell;

Also notable, for advanced applications of functional programming, are the Galois Tech Talks.

In particular, for concurrency and parallelism in functional programming, see:

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There is a series of 13 lectures by Erik Meijer on Channel 9

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Loved them, Erik Meijer has the talent of explaining complex stuff in an understandable manner. – Mark Jun 24 '11 at 20:29
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More on Channel9 that I recommend:

  1. Ralf Lämmel's "Lecture series on advanced (functional) programming concepts",
  2. Greg Meredith's "Monadic Design Patterns for the Web",
  3. Monads and Coordinate Systems by Brian Beckman and Greg Meredith.

  4. Also, A Quick Tour of Scala by Ralf Lämmel.

  5. Effective ML by Yaron Minsky (effective with people, i.e. elegant).

  6. Oregon Programming Languages Summer School: Logic, Languages, Compilation, and Verification.

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The fourth link is dead. – Mahmoud Hossam Jun 24 '11 at 18:34
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It may be worth checking out these videos by MIT on Lisp. They are quite old but still good if you are a beginner at Lisp. See them here.

You can also find great Clojure ones here.

Hope this helps.

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As well on Channel9, Greg Meredith about Rock-n-Roll Monads.

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If you aren't aware: you can create a single answer and edit it, adding this new information over time. – Thomas M. DuBuisson Jun 24 '11 at 15:37
Yes, I know, but that would prevent the people to distinguish on up- and down-votes, which link they consider useful, and which not. – user unknown Jun 24 '11 at 15:40
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Tony Morris about the Monad as Banana on vimeo. More videos of the Australian group of programmers can be found in the sidebar of this video, often related to Scala. Maybe not newest stuff and not too advanced - more for advanced developers.

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InfoQ has - not only, but beneath other formats - videos too, not all of them about functional programming, but with a narrowed search...

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ontwik.com has a good collection of videos too, collected from various sources: http://ontwik.com/?s=functional

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