Introducing Haskell at the @madlabuk Lambda Lounge - Monday 28th May @7pm

[Rick Moynihan]

The @madlabuk Lambda Lounge is back and this time we're diving into what is perhaps the most mind blowing of the functional programming languages; Haskell.

This months meeting will be on the 28th May @7pm and will feature an introductory talk on Haskell, by Ian Johnson.

Haskell is a purely functional programming language, where side-effects are forbidden by the type-system; and all functions must be pure. 

Haskell's widely regarded as being on the cutting edge of programming language design, with its rigorous Hindley-Milner inferencing type system, lazy evaluation and infamous use of Monads to box up side effects in a useful and generic abstraction.

Haskell is best known for it's ability to lock up side effects where they belong, in an IO::Monad; preventing them from polluting your program with pain and non-determinism!

It's destined to be another great Lambda Lounge!

Come along!  http://lambdalounge.org.uk/

R.

[Richard Garbutt]

I'd quite like to go to this on the 28th but I'm not sure you'd be interested.

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