Hi Rick, Unfortunately I can't attend but I'm far from the only person in my own peer group who's tried and failed to become interested in FP because of a lack of focus in most textbooks on mundane things such as IO, text and string manipulation and the likes.
Will there be any recording facility to upload a video after the fact? (sent from my phone, please excuse typos) On 12 Apr 2016 10:51 p.m., "Rick Moynihan" <rick.moyni...@gmail.com> wrote: This Monday (18th April @7pm) the Lambda Lounge is meeting with a presentation by Hakim Cassimally on how Haskell is an acceptable Perl. http://www.lambdalounge.org.uk/ So, Haskell is "an advanced purely-functional programming language" which supports writing "declarative, statically typed code". It may be optimized for academic buzzwords you've never heard of but... is it any good for writing code in the way that you'd write Perl, Python, or Ruby? What are strong types, and why are we so frightened of them anyway? Can you develop interactively in Haskell, the way you would in a dynamic language? Does Haskell have "whipuptitude" (being able to get things done quickly) as well as "manipulexity" (being able to manipulate complex things)? And perhaps most importantly, can writing Haskell be *fun*? Rick. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "North West Ruby User Group (NWRUG)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nwrug-members+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to nwrug-members@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "North West Ruby User Group (NWRUG)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nwrug-members+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to nwrug-members@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
