On Feb 29, 8:28 am, doug livesey <[email protected]> wrote: > *Very* interesting, cheers!
That's basically the idea... to be interesting... Functional Programming represents a relatively untapped frontier of ideas and technology for the mainstream, though we seem to be approaching an inflection point where our programming languages and API's (e.g. jQuery) are getting more and more functional. > 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. Great! Hopefully we'll see you along soon! Incidentally we're now listed on the madlab site here: http://madlab.org.uk/content/the-manchester-lambda-lounge/ R. > 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.
