Tonight at 8pm SIPB Cluedumps present "Why learn Haskell?" by Keegan McAllister
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Edward Kmett
Oct 11, 2011, 11:54:08 AM10/11/11
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For those of you who are curious to see how Keegan's final presentation of his "Why learn Haskell?" talk turns out or who weren't able to make it to the last Boston Haskell, I'm forwarded the official announcement of Keegan's cluedump, which happens tonight.
-Edward
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Veronica Hanus <veh...@gmail.com>
TL;DR: Keegan McAllister will be giving a Cluedump on Haskell, October 11, 2011, at 8:00 PM in 2-143. Snacks will be provided, along with compelling reasons to start (or continue!) loving Haskell.
SIPB Cluedumps are informal, so you can come and go as you need (we'll be hangin' out and talkin' Haskell until 10pm), interrupt with questions, and grab food as often as you would like. Hope you all had a relaxing break and are ready to join us on Tuesday evening!
To our friends at the Boston area Haskell user group, you are more than welcome to come, heckle Keegan, and join us for a conversation about your favorite language. I know many of you are familiar with campus, but for those who are new, 2-143 (2-143 (building 2, room 143) can be found here).
BC: peach again. END TL;DR
Read on!
More about tomorrow's talk:
Tired of programming languages that just rehash old concepts with new syntax? Haskell is a truly unique language that will expand your mind and show you new ways to solve problems. We'll take a whirlwind tour of Haskell features, from simple to sophisticated, foundational to practical. We'll see how Haskell offers a better way to write software, be it pure computation or concurrent transactional network code. I won't get bogged down in details of syntax, or waving my hands about the ineffable beauty of functional programming. These are great topics to study on your own. This talk will give you some compelling, concrete reasons to do so.
Keegan McAllister has used and studied Haskell for five years, and maintains Haskell libraries for SMT solving and x86 disassembly, among others. He spends way too much time on #haskell IRC, and knows of SIPB through his time as a kernel engineer at Ksplice.
More about Cluedumps!:
Want to know the best applications for Haskell, how Bitcoin works, or join a PGP Keysigning party? Not sure what a PGP key is? Interested in contributing to open source, but not sure where to get started?
This Fall, the Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) is offering a solution:
Learn about a variety of computing topics at SIPB Cluedumps! These manageable 2 hour sessions take place on Tuesday evening throughout the term (schedule and talk descriptions are here: http://cluedumps.mit.edu/).
Pick your favorite topics or join us every Tuesday for fun, information, and snacks. We encourage you to blanche yourself onto cluedump-announce (or email us) and we'll send you weekly updates about upcoming speakers.
This is a presentation you won't want to miss!
From: Veronica Hanus <veh...@gmail.com>
TL;DR: Keegan McAllister will be giving a Cluedump on Haskell, October 11, 2011, at 8:00 PM in 2-143. Snacks will be provided, along with compelling reasons to start (or continue!) loving Haskell.
SIPB Cluedumps are informal, so you can come and go as you need (we'll be hangin' out and talkin' Haskell until 10pm), interrupt with questions, and grab food as often as you would like. Hope you all had a relaxing break and are ready to join us on Tuesday evening!
To our friends at the Boston area Haskell user group, you are more than welcome to come, heckle Keegan, and join us for a conversation about your favorite language. I know many of you are familiar with campus, but for those who are new, 2-143 (2-143 (building 2, room 143) can be found here).
BC: peach again. END TL;DR
Read on!
More about tomorrow's talk:
Tired of programming languages that just rehash old concepts with new syntax? Haskell is a truly unique language that will expand your mind and show you new ways to solve problems. We'll take a whirlwind tour of Haskell features, from simple to sophisticated, foundational to practical. We'll see how Haskell offers a better way to write software, be it pure computation or concurrent transactional network code. I won't get bogged down in details of syntax, or waving my hands about the ineffable beauty of functional programming. These are great topics to study on your own. This talk will give you some compelling, concrete reasons to do so.
Keegan McAllister has used and studied Haskell for five years, and maintains Haskell libraries for SMT solving and x86 disassembly, among others. He spends way too much time on #haskell IRC, and knows of SIPB through his time as a kernel engineer at Ksplice.
More about Cluedumps!:
Want to know the best applications for Haskell, how Bitcoin works, or join a PGP Keysigning party? Not sure what a PGP key is? Interested in contributing to open source, but not sure where to get started?
This Fall, the Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) is offering a solution:
Learn about a variety of computing topics at SIPB Cluedumps! These manageable 2 hour sessions take place on Tuesday evening throughout the term (schedule and talk descriptions are here: http://cluedumps.mit.edu/).
Pick your favorite topics or join us every Tuesday for fun, information, and snacks. We encourage you to blanche yourself onto cluedump-announce (or email us) and we'll send you weekly updates about upcoming speakers.
This is a presentation you won't want to miss!
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