NYC LOCAL: Tuesday 12 February 2013 Lisp NYC: Brian Hurt on Type Systems

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Subject: New York City Lisp User Group: Type Systems with Brian Hurt
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Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 10:27:01 -0500 (EST)

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( meeting - Tuesday, February 12, 7:00 PM - Type Systems with Brian Hurt
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Although Lisp is generally known for its flexibility and dynamic typing,
it can certainly be made to accommodate static typing, which is exactly
what this presentation is not about.

The first in a series of talks, functional software guru and type
aficionado Brian Hurt discusses his personal philosophy of type systems
with the goals of writing more software, more quickly, delivering it to
market with fewer bugs.

In a language agnostic way, Brian discusses:
* An antagonistic history of type systems
* Static vs. dynamic types? You're doing it wrong.
* Software guarantees
* Software Transactional Memory and concurrency
* Bug hunt: it's not even sporting anymore
* How and why C# failed
* The many benefits of functional software
* How to make Lisp even better

Pizza and beer provided by Meetup.

About our speaker:

It has been said that a programmer should learn three languages: assembly
language, Lisp, and Haskell. Brian has been paid to program in assembly
language, Ocaml, and Clojure, and declares this "close enough." He's also
been known to program in C, C++, Java, SQL, and many other languages as
need arises, but claims that BASIC programming was only when he was young
and foolish. "C'mon, man-I learned Pascal and ditched BASIC when I was
12. Give me a break!" he replied.

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