The next meeting of the Portland Functional Programming Study Group (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
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.
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 5:14 AM, Igal Koshevoy <i...@pragmaticraft.com> wrote:
> The next meeting of the Portland Functional Programming Study Group > (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
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 5:14 AM, Igal Koshevoy <i...@pragmaticraft.com> wrote: > The next meeting of the Portland Functional Programming Study Group > (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
On Mar 31, 12:02 pm, "Patrick Logan" <patrickdlo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
I've been spending a little time fiddling with Clojure and wouldn't
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)
Paul A. Steckler wrote: > - Developing and testing Web applications with PLT Scheme
I'd definitely be interested in seeing how folks are applying Scheme and 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!
On Mar 31, 12:02 pm, "Patrick Logan" <patrickdlo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
Here's an update on the upcoming pdxfunc meeting: - 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!
