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Sussman and Rich Hickey are two people whose talks I never stop enjoying.

The only person I'd add to that list is Simon Peyton Jones. I could watch them talk all day!

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

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

> 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 =)

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

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

And it's functional, too!

Add Joe Armstrong to that list for me.

I loved listening to Joe. Humility and humor (or, should I say humour in his honor?), practicality and intelligence. RIP

Definitely the British spelling. See also behaviours in Erlang and Elixir (https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/1.4.5/behaviours.html)

I quite enjoy Guy Steele's talks as well.

I don’t know Hicky, but Guy, Gerry and Hal are great human beings as well.

The talks that guy and Richard Gabriel did together were pretty good. And of course Richard Gabriel himself.