Almost enough people to start talking about a meeting!

[Alex Cruise]

Hi folks,

We have 12 people in the group now, some of whom I don't even know!
That's as good an excuse as any for me to start bloviating. Welcome!

If you have a bunch of half-assed questions that you don't want
following you around for the rest of your life, we could have a
meeting in a Google-proof location made of atoms. If we were to hold
such a meeting, what would you like to see covered?

-0xe1a

[Gord Pollock]

Howdy person I don't know:

I'm here via VanJug. Thanks Marius!

For the first meeting I would like to hear about real-world uptake of Scala and other functional programming languages.

I'm okay with small meetings. Weekday evenings usually work.

Thanks
Gord

[Colin Smith]

Hey Scala group,

I also don't know anyone as I am new to Van and therefore VanJUG. I
moved out here a few months ago from Toronto and would like to get
more involved in the community here.

As for what I would like to get out of the first meeting: maybe just
a) an introduction to Scala, b) where everyone is with their
experience and c) a talk (or even better a demo) about Lift which
apparently some of you have used based on your Google profiles.

We might also decide on a common starting point for learning such as
the only published textbook. FWIW, I have Safari and have had a glance
at the O'reilly "Programming Scala" in Rough Cuts form.

Cheers,

Colin

On 5-Feb-09, at 7:39 PM, Gord Pollock wrote:

> bloviating

[Alex Cruise]

On Feb 5, 7:39 pm, Gord Pollock <gord.poll...@gmail.com> wrote:
> For the first meeting I would like to hear about real-world uptake of Scala
> and other functional programming languages.

Hey Gord!

I asked about Scala production usage yesterday in IRC (#scala on
irc.freenode.org).

Here are the production uses of Scala I'm aware of. Of course, there
are probably many other production Scala deployments that no one knows
about. :)
- Twitter is using a queueing system built with Scala actors (http://
github.com/robey/kestrel/tree/master)
- http://www.marketsimplified.com/ is apparently also using Actors
- There are a bunch of live websites that were built with Lift.
- http://blog.esme.us/ is like Twitter only more enterprisey :)

> I'm okay with small meetings. Weekday evenings usually work.

Me too!

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