MEETING: Monday, April 14, 7pm, CubeSpace - call for proposals
Igal Koshevoy
(pdxfunc) is coming up. If you'd like to give a presentation, please
reply with a topic title, summary and estimate of how much time you
think you'll need -- see previous meeting announcements for examples.
Also feel free to suggest a group discussion topic or something you'd
want to hear about.
Possible ideas for talks and demos:
- Explaining monads
- Introduction to Clojure, a mostly-functional concurrent Lisp dialect
for the JVM
- Introduction to OCaml
- Criteria for choosing Haskell, OCaml, etc for a project
-igal
Patrick Logan
interested in Clojure and can talk a bit about it if there is
interest, in collaboration if others are using it too.
Paul A. Steckler
> (pdxfunc) is coming up. If you'd like to give a presentation, please
> reply with a topic title, summary and estimate of how much time you
> think you'll need -- see previous meeting announcements for examples.
> Also feel free to suggest a group discussion topic or something you'd
> want to hear about.
How about:
- Developing and testing Web applications with PLT Scheme
?
I'm doing some work along those lines these days.
-- Paul
Adam Jones
> Assuming my schedule remains the same, I should be able to attend. I'm
> interested in Clojure and can talk a bit about it if there is
> interest, in collaboration if others are using it too.
>
mind hearing more about it. I'm working on a little 2d game, but doing
a lot of calling into a Java library so there's some parts of it I
simply haven't had time or desire to touch. (like the entire
concurrency system)
-Adam
Igal Koshevoy
> - Developing and testing Web applications with PLT Scheme
>
seeing examples of FP being used for web development.
If you'd like to give a presentation, could you put together a topic
title, short description, brief bio, and a rough estimate of how long
you think the presentation will take? Thanks!
-igal
Igal Koshevoy
> Assuming my schedule remains the same, I should be able to attend. I'm
> interested in Clojure and can talk a bit about it if there is
> interest, in collaboration if others are using it too.
>
If Patrick, Adam or someone can commit to giving us an intro to Clojure,
that'd be great. From a quick read of the language's site, it seems to
use a somewhat novel approach and its author tries hard to strike the
right balance of practicality with the features they liked in Lisp, FP
and low-level concurrency support. If neither of you feel comfortable
giving a full-blown talk, a quick demo that shows us how it works, and
what makes it different and useful would be fine.
-igal
Patrick Logan
beginner with Clojure. And I am happy to do that informally with
others.
I would probably just pull a few key slides and URLs that are already
on the net.
Anyone up to a full blown talk, etc. please jump in. I'll sit back and
learn too.
Igal Koshevoy
- Patrick Logan has volunteered to give a "Modest Introduction to
Clojure" presentation, and Adam Jones will provide some additional
commentary. Thanks!
- Paul Steckler will not be able to present a talk on developing web
apps with PTL Scheme this time, but will hopefully be able to do so at a
future meeting because this sounds like an intriguing topic.
Would anyone else like to make a presentation or suggest a discussion
topic? E.g., comparing OCaml and Haskell? If you'd like to present,
please send me a talk title, paragraph description, and brief bio.
I plan to send out the official meeting announcements this evening, so
please get any suggestions in before then. Thanks!
-igal