Any functional programmers out there?

[Jeramy Couts]

Hi Rogue Hack Lab members,

A few of us here in the valley have decided to start a group dedicated to functional programming. If you're interested in Clojure, Haskell, Julia, Erlang, Elixir, Scala, Scheme, or any of the many other wonderful functional programming languages out there, come join us!

Here's a link to the official meetup group. Currently, we have one weekly meeting that's on Saturday from 1pm to 4pm at Noble in Ashland, but we're considering moving that to Medford to make it easier for everyone to reach, depending on who joins us. We'll hack on small one-off projects (use your language of choice), discuss interesting topics in the FP world, explore FP design principles, occasionally watch interesting talks together and discuss them, and otherwise just hang out and have a good time. For the projects we do, the goal is ultimately to explore cool and interesting things about functional programming as a whole. So, while those of us already in the group mostly use Clojure (and a bit of Haskell), it would be great to see whatever your favorite functional language is and compare/contrast the results.

Hope to see you there!

Jeramy

[luke32j]

Just thought I'd share this as it gives a really interesting overview of how you can write similar code in Clojure (a functional, Java-based language) as in Python (the common scripting-language, which can be "lazy" like functional programming language using iterators):

http://www.pixelmonkey.org/2014/11/02/clojonic?imm_mid=0c681e&cmp=em-prog-na-na-newsltr_20141108

As a long-time Python programmer I though this was a great comparison with advantages and examples for each.