Announcing... The Manchester Lambda Lounge (Monday 12th March 2012 @7pm)

[Rick Moynihan]

Hi all,

I'm proud to announce the inaugural meeting of the Manchester Lambda
Lounge; a group dedicated to popularising Functional Programming, and
exploring new concepts in programming languages. We hope to meet on
the second Monday of the Month, every month at the Madlab at 7pm.

http://madlab.org.uk/

Many of the coolest modern languages are Functional, and include F#,
Erlang, Haskell, Clojure, Scala, Lisp, Scheme, OCaml and ML, whilst
almost all of the best features found in languages like Ruby, Python,
C# and Javascript have a functional lineage. So whether you want to
know why JQuery and LINQ are Monads, or how currying functions can
improve your programs data-flow then the Lambda Lounge is the place
for you!

Our first meeting will be on Monday the 12th of March 2012 at 7pm, and
will feature a talk by Dr, Simon Holgate on ClojureScript, a powerful
and interesting dialect of Clojure that compiles into blazingly fast
optimised Javascript.

ClojureScript solves many of the robustness problems associated with
large scale Javascript projects and uses the Closure compiler to
perform "whole program optimisations" meaning ClojureScript is both
fast and efficient. ClojureScript also brings many powerful
programming features to the table such as lazy sequences, and advanced
meta-programming capabilities.

Simon will be talking about ClojureScript and his experiences using it
to develop geographical visualisations of scientific data.
If you're interested, we also have a Google Group here:

http://groups.google.com/group/lambda-lounge-manchester