Simon Thompson - Erlang and Wrangler

Simon Thompson is Head of the Computing Department at the University of Kent. He is an author and academic, having written the leading book on Haskell, Haskell: The Craft of Functional Programming. He is currently working on an  Erlang book with Francesco Cesarini called Practical Erlang Programming to be published by O'Reilly. He created Erlang's refactoring tool, Wrangler.

He was kind enough to talk to me about Erlang, functional programming languages and academia when we met at Erlang eXchange, run by Skillsmatter.