86 – Michael Hanus

Recorded 2026-03-18. Published 2026-09-11.

In this episode, we sat down with Michael Hanus. Michael is a professor at the University of Kiel and is one of the founders of functional logic programming, the combination of logic and functional programming in a single formalism. Michael is also the creator of Curry, a functional-logic language that resembles Haskell, so you can dive right in if you’re familiar with Haskell. Naturally, we talked about what functional logic programming is, how it improves over plain functional programming, and the challenges of semantics and implementation. We learned a lot - enjoy!

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