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dwight fellman

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+1 on the clojure interest as opposed to scala.

have not used either, but i read around the edges a lot.

timely article: http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=339521

also, MIT is bringing back their SICP courses. I think me learning clojure would be almost as good as learning lisp.

-dwight


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    Todd McGrath <todd.m...@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.m...@gmail.com
     
    Thanks,
    Todd

     

    Mike Leo <ml...@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
     
    ML...@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 <worldwi...@gmail.com> Jan 18 01:51PM -0800  

    +1
     
    Perhaps a more general group re: functional languages? Just an idea.
     

     

    Chris Bartling <chris.b...@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 <con...@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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