I realize this is late notice (didn't think of it till now), there is
a Clojure talk tonight at the Philadelphia Java Users Group - to
attend you'll need to RSVP (see: http://phillyjug.jsync.com/ to sign
up).
The announcement is below.
Regards,
Kyle
Agenda:
6:30 – 7:00 Grab a good seat, some pizza, soft drinks, enjoy life
7:00 – 7:15 Announcements, raffles and giveaways, stretching exercises
7:15 - ?? Scott Fraser on Clojure
Speaker Bio:
Scott Fraser – co-founder, CTO of Portico Systems
Scott has worked professionally in the information technology sector
for more than twenty one years. One of the three original founders of
Portico Systems, he continues to have hands-on involvement with the
company’s Java-based platform. Previously he worked as an independent
consultant specializing in UNIX/Windows C/C++ programming, and
networking.
Scott started working with Java in 1996, and looks forward to 10 more
years with the language that single-handedly saved him from memory
leaks, Win16/32 API’s, and General Protection Faults.
He has a BS in Environmental Biology from Eastern University in St.
David’s PA, and is an avid birder.
Abstract:
Scott has always known about the coming Robot Apocalypse. But only
recently was he convinced, by a Functional Programming evangelist,
that the deconstruction of the Imperative and Object Oriented
programming paradigms that had dominated Scott's career for over 22
years might be imminent. Always paranoid about staying relevant, sure
that the JVM was here to stay, and with many years of highly
multithreaded high performance Java applications behind him, he sought
a functional language that would work for him... and was led to
Clojure.
Clojure is an exciting lisp dialect with baked in concurrency support.
It's creator, Rich Hickey, was inspired by Haskell and ML, and hopes
the language will play as "a dynamic language like Python, Ruby and
Groovy", that is "as accessible as those languages", but also "as
performant as Java and as useful in any context as you would Java". It
sounded perfect. But could it subdue the robots?
Join Scott to learn about Clojure, and what it's creator calls it's "Four Legs":
* functional programming
* lisp
* being hosted on the JVM
* direct support for concurrency
And finally, see Real World Examples (tm) of using Clojure to control
robots, for purposes of self defense, amusement of conference
attendees, and otherwise.
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