On Oct 12, 2013, at 7:38 PM, Mark Allen <[email protected]> wrote: > I know some of you have already heard about this, but I am starting a new > functional programming users group in Houston and I wanted to invite all of > my Perl friends to come to our first meeting. If you want to learn more > about Scala (because of Stevan Little's moe project), Clojure, Erlang, > Haskell or F#, this is a user community you should join. > > Learning Erlang at my dayjob has vastly improved the way I approach problem > solving and writing Perl code. Also a lot of functional languages make hard > problems (like distributed or asynchronous computing) easier and/or simpler > to solve. > > It's this Wednesday, October 16, 2013 > 6:30-8:30 > Pizza included > > The topic is "Introduction to Webmachine." Webmachine is a fast and easy way > to build HTTP endpoints in Erlang. It's also been ported to Perl because it > has a ton of awesomely good ideas and we like to steal from the best. ;-) > > https://metacpan.org/module/Web::Machine >
Great, but Wednesday 6:30-8:30 clashes with the weekly Houston Linux Usergroup meetings, and with the next Houston Rockets game. Maybe I can visit next time. You might be interested that p2, a new perl11 (5+6) is using an almost purely functional message-passing based VM as backbone, with some concepts borrowed from Erlang, but more from Smalltalk, IO, lua, REBOL and LISP. It's IO is more nodejs alike (async, non-blocking, with fast callbacks), not like multi-threaded blocking IO as in Erlang or Go. But the lightweight coros are similar.
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