Next Meeting: Christopher Strachey's "Fundamental Concepts in Programming Language", Tuesday, 4th June at Future Learn

[Paul Mucur]

Good morning!

Following discussion on the club Slack, we’ve decided on our new topic: Michael Fogus’ “10 Technical Papers Every Programmer Should Read (At Least Twice)” http://blog.fogus.me/2011/09/08/10-technical-papers-every-programmer-should-read-at-least-twice/

Please join us on Tuesday, 4th June where we’ll be going through the first paper in the list: Christopher Strachey’s “Fundamental Concepts in Programming Languages” https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love/blob/master/plt/fundamental-concepts-in-programming-languages.pdf?raw=true

Fogus describes it as follows:

> Quite possibly the most influential set of lecture notes in the history of computer science. Left and Right-values, Parametric and Ad-hoc polymorphism were all defined in this paper. Much of the content may already occupy your mind, but the sheer weight of the heady topics assembled in one place is stunning to observe.

We’ll meet at Future Learn’s office in Camden Town for 6:30 pm so please sign up on https://upcoming.org/event/computation-club-10-technical-papers-every-programmer-should-read-at-least-twice-christopher-stracheys-fundamental-concepts-in-programming-languages-ofp8d3lgqq and then inform reception that you’re here for Computation Club and someone will lead you to our regular meeting room on the ground floor.

We’ll be discussing the paper together section by section so please give it a go and we hope to see you there. If you’ve never been before then this would be a great time to get involved!

Kind regards,

— Paul

[Paul Mucur]

Hi all!

I hope you’re enjoying the sunny weekend and making the most of the good weather by getting stuck into Christopher Strachey’s “Fundamental Concepts in Programming Languages” as we’ll be discussing it _this Tuesday!_

We’ve made a new #10tpepsr (10 Technical Papers Every Programmer Should Read) channel on our Slack at https://computationclub-slack.herokuapp.com/ so please feel free to join for some links to supplemental material and to discuss anything ahead of this week’s meeting.

Please sign up at https://upcoming.org/event/computation-club-10-technical-papers-every-programmer-should-read-at-least-twice-christopher-stracheys-fundamental-concepts-in-programming-languages-ofp8d3lgqq if you haven’t done so already to make getting into FutureLearn easier.

I look forward to seeing you all on Tuesday.

Kind regards,

— Paul