Meeting - October 31st - Programming with Purity - Joe Albahari

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We are very lucky this month to have the YOW! Conference sponsor our event.

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Joe Albahari - Programming with Purity

Thursday, October 31st 5:30pm - 7pm

Enex 100 Level 3 Seminar Room

100 St Georges Terrace, Perth

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We take for granted that the goto statement is bad. Instead, we employ alternatives that make our code easier to understand and reason over, namely structured looping constructs such as while-loops and for-loops. 

 

But have you ever considered that functional programmers look down on our looping constructs (or more specifically, our impure use of variables) in the same way we look down on goto? And they've got a point. By avoiding some of our most time-honoured tricks, we can end up with code that's not only easier to understand and reason over, but that scales better.

 

Join Joe Albahari, author of LINQPad and C# 5.0 in a Nutshell, for an hour of functional fundamentalism. Everything will be explained simply and in the familiar language of C#, without mathematics, LISP or Haskell!

Joe is one of our more popular speakers and the event will be catered thanks to the YOW! Conference so please take the time to register your attendance so that we can get an idea on the numbers. Email a copy of this around to everyone you know and we'll see you on the night!

P.S. The meeting after this will be our annual December DevJam. If you've seen or done something cool this year that you could talk about for 10 minutes you have about a 50% chance of walking away with a prize! Send me a talk title (you can change it later) to michael....@gmail.com to be a part of the line up.