[Liverpool] Functional Programming night at Geekup ?

[Hakim Cassimally]

Great!

So that's

  - a Haskell talk
  - a Lisp (implementation) talk
  - ??

anyone else?  I'd love to see, for example, something on one of the
corporate stack FP technologies (.Net's F#, or JVM's Scala) or perhaps
something on Functional Programming in Python, Javascript or similar
;-)

As the talks will be at Geekup, I think a it's probably best to assume
a "general interest in IT/programming" level, as opposed to going too
deep into gory details.  (We can save those for the post-meeting chat
and beer ;-)

Cheers,
Hakim

On 20 April 2011 17:31, Simon Johnson <simon.johnson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If you're deseperate, I wrote a LISP interpreter in .NET.I could give a talk
> about that?
>
> It's quite a poor quality interpreter, but it works, and illustrates how a
> LISP is designed.
>
> What date is the meeting, I want to come anyway - it sounds great?
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Simon Johnson.
>
> On 20 April 2011 14:34, Hakim Cassimally <hakim.cassimally at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> We've been talking in the Room of Things about running a "Functional
>> Programming night" at Liverpool Geekup, possibly in May (but that's up
>> to John McKerrell, our glorious geekup leader!)
>>
>> I'd be happy to give a short (20-30 mins?) talk on Haskell: what it
>> is, why it's interesting, and a few examples of using it to solve a
>> Real World problem.
>>
>> But that leaves space for at least one more talk - any volunteers?
>>
>> I enjoyed Martin Owen's talk on Erlang, and Chris Alcock's on F# back
>> in... 2008, would be really happy to  see an updated version of either
>> of those, but something new would be great too.
>>
>> Adrian reminds me that Simon Johnson was giving a talk on Lisp at
>> LivLug some time back, this would also be very much on-topic.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Hakim
>> @osfameron
>>
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