DC ALT.NET - 1/27/2010 - Clojure
Matthew Podwysocki
I've posted about my group DC ALT.NET here before, especially when covering polyglot things like Lisp, Erlang, JavaScript and others we've covered. This month, we're doing Clojure. If you're not familiar with Clojure, I don't know what planet you're from, but anyhow, from their site:
Clojure is a dynamic programming language that targets the Java Virtual Machine (and the CLR ). It is designed to be a general-purpose language, combining the approachability and interactive development of a scripting language with an efficient and robust infrastructure for multithreaded programming. Clojure is a compiled language - it compiles directly to JVM bytecode, yet remains completely dynamic. Every feature supported by Clojure is supported at runtime. Clojure provides easy access to the Java frameworks, with optional type hints and type inference, to ensure that calls to Java can avoid reflection.
Clojure is a dialect of Lisp, and shares with Lisp the code-as-data philosophy and a powerful macro system. Clojure is predominantly a functional programming language, and features a rich set of immutable, persistent data structures. When mutable state is needed, Clojure offers a software transactional memory system and reactive Agent system that ensure clean, correct, multithreaded designs.
Date/Time: 1/27/2010 - 7-9PM
Location:
The Motley Fool
2000 Duke Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
If you're interested in geeking out on it, please do RSVP:
http://www.eventbrite.com/event/528348304
Matt
Michael Harrison
I went out of town on the 5th and so couldn't respond back. The Clojure study group here in the DC area (http://groups.google.com/group/clojure-study-dc) got 4, possibly 5 people into the training on a group rate. You don't have to come from the same company; you just need one person to do the registering and paying. I wish I'd gotten the news out wider and sooner. The class is sold out. I wonder if your email and subsequent discussion about the training had something to do with that.
Did any of you all register? You can still try the waiting list. Nicole from Pragmatic Studio says they usually have a couple of registered people cancel before a class starts.
There may be some happy hour get-together things happening around the training in Reston. Stay tuned for more information about that.
Cheers,
Michael
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