*Very* interesting, cheers! Unfortunately that first meeting is my birthday, after my birthday weekend, which traditionally means I'm not up to anything as mentally challenging as shoelaces, let alone functional programming, but I reckon I'll try to make it along to others. I've been getting back into C++ since the new standard, with anonymous lambda functions & goodies like that, and have been playing with Node.native recently, so this could be a rather well-timed group for me. :)
On 28 February 2012 23:29, Rick Moynihan <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm proud to announce the inaugural meeting of the Manchester Lambda > Lounge; a group dedicated to popularising Functional Programming, and > exploring new concepts in programming languages. We hope to meet on the > second Monday of the Month, every month at the Madlab at 7pm. > > Many of the coolest modern languages are Functional, and include F#, > Erlang, Haskell, Clojure, Lisp, Scheme, OCaml and ML, whilst almost all of > the best features found in languages like Ruby, Python, C# and Javascript > have a functional lineage. So whether you want to know why JQuery and LINQ > are Monads, or how currying functions can improve your programs data-flow > then the Lambda Lounge is the place for you! > > Our first meeting will be on Monday the 12th of March 2012 at 7pm, and > will feature a talk by Dr, Simon Holgate on ClojureScript, a powerful and > interesting dialect of Clojure that compiles into blazingly fast optimised > Javascript. > > ClojureScript solves many of the robustness problems associated with large > scale Javascript projects and uses the Closure compiler to perform "whole > program optimisations" meaning ClojureScript is both fast and efficient. > ClojureScript also brings many powerful programming features to the table > such as lazy sequences, and advanced meta-programming capabilities. > > Simon will be talking about ClojureScript and his experiences using it to > develop geographical visualisations of scientific data. > If you're interested, we also have a Google Group here: > > http://groups.google.com/group/lambda-lounge-manchester > > R. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NWRUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NWRUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members?hl=en.
