[Nottingham] [Talk] **TODAY** 19/11/2015 - Grind your functions

[Jason Irwin]

With a large project in hand, our speaker (Daryl) began researching
various languages and the balance of speed Vs ease of coding. He
picked a scheduling algorithm which worked through the locations of 10
people and pick the nearest job from a pool of 500 until it had
assigned 50 jobs to each person.
He wrote a number of implementations and then turned everything up to 11.

Functional Vs Object, Rust Vs Haskell, two go in – one comes out.

Everyone welcome!

Some further reading:
Functional Programming on Wikipedia -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming
Language Benchmarks - http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/
Comparison Project on GitHub -
https://github.com/zolbatar/functional-comparison

Where:The Organ Grinder 21 Alfreton Road, Canning Circus, Nottingham NG7 3JE
When: 1930

NLug page: http://nlug.ml1.co.uk/event/grind-your-functions