Thanks Michael, Tim and Mike for volunteering. We'll be at Heysan next week:
301 8th Street suite 270 (door on the right after coming up in the elevator) San Francisco, CA Thursday, July 17th 7:30pm Hope to see everyone there. Mike On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Mike Wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > We've got a great talk lined up for next week, but are in desperate > need of a place to hold it. If you think you may have a room to > offer, please let me know. > > BayFP resumes with a talk by Leo Meyerovich on Flapjax: > http://www.flapjax-lang.org/. > > """ > The web is raising the bar for expected application features and > reactivity is one common theme. Thick clients are again becoming the > norm, further hinting at the form reactivity takes and guiding our > choice in how to support it. For these reasons, data binding is a > popular feature, yet bound terms are often neither first-class > citizens nor higher-order. To further help untangle typical reactive > web client code by facilitating compositional reasoning for events and > changing data, we created the Flapjax library for JavaScript, which > I'll present in a tutorial fashion. It supports a simple push-driven > fragment of functional reactive programming (that can also be thought > of as first-class and higher-order extension of push-driven data > flow). However, our initial attempt to make the library even more > usable by adding supporting syntax was incomplete: gradually typing > and side-effects are core mantras to ECMAScript, so experience has > shown that we should have incorporated both to make an effective FRP > embedding. I'll discuss the language-level attempt this led me to at > Adobe for Flex/ActionScript 3 last summer, and finish with pointers to > clear next steps in supporting IDEs and manycores. > """ > > Obviously time and location are TBD. Again, please let me know if you > can help by hosting this talk. > > Mike > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to "Bay Area Functional Programmers" To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bayfp?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
