TU Dortmund University

But your interest in functional programming, how did that start? Is it just that you met people at conferences or was it because you just thought that it was one more paradigm?

Yeah, so where I worked at the University of Dortmund, also Ralf Hinze, who is also well-known in the community, was also there, and he was interested in functional programming.

He wrote very early also a book on Miranda, a German textbook, and therefore I became also interested.

I just looked at this, and I think it's also interesting, in particular the The higher order stuff, type system, these are things which are missing originally in Prologue, and therefore I think it might be a good idea to have someday in the future the best of both worlds in one language.

My name is Philipp Zimmer.

At the time of this interview, I had been heading the Chair of Sports Medicine, Performance, and Health at TU Dortmund University for about two and a half to three years.

What we do is investigate the influence of exercise on the immune system, particularly in clinical populations.

Our focus includes people with MS and people with cancer.

You can also find our work through PubMed or Google Scholar by searching for my name together with multiple sclerosis or exercise.

And just an editor's note here again, uh, the DMSG exercise consultation remains a German language service and is therefore mainly relevant to people who can use German.

For international listeners, Professor Zimmer's English language TU Dortmund University profile is a more useful link for his research background and current work, and I will put it in the show notes.

For direct access to peer-reviewed research, PubMed is also preferable for an international audience.