A Philly Lambda Project

["Jonathan Tran" <jonnytran@gmail.com>]

Forked from "ICFP 2008"

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Aaron Feng <aaron.feng@gmail.com> wrote:
> > This sounds fun.  But I would rather build something I (and other
> > people) can actually use.
>
> Do you have anything in mind?

I've found that starting a project is difficult because it requires
uniting a group of people, having them all believe in a single idea.

However, this group is already united around the idea of functional
programming.  Is it not?  So why not start a project that we all can
work on to learn fp?  I've always said that the best way to learn
functional programming (or anything for that matter) is to simply do
it.  That's how I learned.  If we had a project -- a goal -- real and
useful scenarios would come up, and we could all learn from each other
how to deal with them in the functional style.

But at the same time, if our efforts were focused, we could build
something  no single one of us could build alone, and come out on the
other side with a major accomplishment.

"The gods lift those who lift each other."

So basically, what I'm saying is, the specifics of the project
shouldn't matter as long as they're conducive to functional
programming, assuming that learning is our actual goal.

Who's with me?

Jonathan