have not used either, but i read around the edges a lot.
also, MIT is bringing back their SICP courses. I think me learning clojure
would be almost as good as learning lisp.
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 5:00 PM, <groovymn@googlegroups.com> wrote:
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> Todd McGrath <todd.mcgr...@gmail.com> Jan 18 06:25AM -0800
> Are there any Twin Cities based groups with a Scala focus?
> If not, anyone interested in gathering occasionally to grow our skills
> in Scala, Akka and other Scala based libs/frameworks?
> Background--
> I'm a fan of Groovy/ Grails and long term member of this group. But
> lately, I've had a chance to build backends to Grails apps in Scala
> with Akka framework.
> Now, if you're skeptical, I understand... I was too at first. Like
> many of you, I've been around long enough to see shiny things come and
> go in software development.
> But, Scala / Akka combo seems different. Reminds me of early days of
> other frameworks- Hibernate, Spring, G/Rails. Also, consider trend of
> Scala jobs on Indeed, Heroku support, or the fact Typesafe just
> received a chunk of venture change.
> We could also get into Lift or Play as well.
> Is this the perfect tool for every situation? Of course not.
> But, if you're interested or have any ideas/ questions to move ahead,
> send me an email to todd.mcgr...@gmail.com
> Thanks,
> Todd
> Mike Leo <m...@kettleriverconsulting.com> Jan 18 09:09AM -0600
> Todd,
> I am starting on a project that works with a team using Scala. I might
> be interested.
> Michael Leo
> Kettle River Consulting
> M...@KettleRiverConsulting.com
> +1 612-859-2108 (cell)
> +1 612-605-1978 (fax)
> On Jan 18, 2012, at 8:25 AM, Todd McGrath wrote:
> Bill Turner <worldwidewi...@gmail.com> Jan 18 01:51PM -0800
> +1
> Perhaps a more general group re: functional languages? Just an idea.
> Chris Bartling <chris.bartl...@gmail.com> Jan 18 04:43PM -0600
> Bill,
> I like the idea of the general group focused around functional
> languages. I'm sort of torn between looking at Clojure and Scala at the
> moment (probably leaning towards Clojure due some recent press coming from
> the Scala camp). It might be nice to have a broader appeal to a couple of
> languages targeting the JVM runtime.
> Regards,
> -- chris --
> On Jan 18, 2012, at 3:51 PM, Bill Turner wrote:
> Ted Naleid <cont...@naleid.com> Jan 18 04:50PM -0600
> The main reason that I'm not piping up regarding a Scala-specific
> group is that I'm more interested in Clojure at the moment as well
> (thinking about going to the upcoming clojure west conference in March). If
> it weren't for that, I'd be interested in this.
> I know there's already a Clojure group that's meeting at the Refactr
> offices. I'm not sure if there's any interest in the meetings becoming more
> of a JVM functional meeting, I think the clojure group is pretty small, but
> I'm not sure if they're interested in expanding their focus. Could be worth
> asking, especially as the Akka stuff could still be leveraged from Clojure
> (or other JVM languages) if desired.
> -Ted
> On Jan 18, 2012, at 4:43 PM, Chris Bartling wrote:
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