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you mean sandwich expression right? mmmmmmm
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Chirag Dadia <cdadia@gmail.com> wrote:
> Kyle,
> This sounds great. I work in Malvern and will be up for a Clojure lunch
> club. Don't have any real experience with Clojure except for me just
> experimenting.
> Thanks for organizing.
> Chirag.
> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Kyle R. Burton <kyle.burton@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>>
>>> This sounds like a great idea. While we do not currently use Clojure, it
>>> is definitely something we are interested in. Unfortunately, getting out to
>>> the suburbs, especially mid-day, is close to impossible for me and certainly
>>> for this upcoming Monday, I could not make it. However, if you are taking
>>> suggestions on topics[1], I would be *highly motivated* to get out there if
>>> the discussions focused on:
>>
>> Since I'm in the burbs it's convenient for me - we could organize
>> something for downtown - but as you have trouble getting out here in a
>> reasonable time, I have trouble getting down there in a reasonable
>> time...we'll work something out - perhaps we'll do one in september and I'll
>> just work from Philly for a day....
>>
>>>
>>> 1. Clojure and concurrency in depth (i.e. more that just, "immutable data
>>> makes for safer/easier concurrent programs")
>>> 2. Incanter (i.e. "Incanter for SciPy users" or "Incanter for MATLAB
>>> users" type of discussion)
>>> 3. Clojure on "deeply embedded systems" (i.e. no operating system, JVM
>>> right on the silicon running Clojure)
>>
>> I dont' know that I can talk to all of these, but I'd love to hear
>> discussion about them as well. I know from the mailing list that some
>> people have clojure running (or are close to having it running) on android.
>> Not sure about other embedded systems though. I've used incanter once, but
>> would love to learn more about it...same goes for the concurrency features.
>> I personally have found that the immutability, by default / encouraged,
>> has made for a lot less issues and worries about code that I write in
>> Clojure...be a great discussion topic.
>>
>>>
>>> I'm sure there are other topics that I would be interested in, but, in
>>> the short-term, getting more insight into the above three from some
>>> real-world Clojure users could definitely kick me in the butt hard enough to
>>> get out to the burbs and tolerate some "stalwart lispers waxing pathetic
>>> about how superior their s-exprs are over club sandwiches." ;-)
>>
>>
>>>
>>> BTW, thanks for being a driving force in getting the Philly Tech
>>> community together (on various fronts) ... its much appreciated.
>>
>>
>> I want to meet interesting people, my only choice is to organize some
>> stuff or I wont' get to meet them. Just trying to make the kind of
>> environment I want to live in :)
>>
>> Thanks though, I recognize that organizing is mostly a thankless task -
>> look at Aaron and all that he does - so I do appreciate that you appreciate
>> it :)
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Best Regards,
>> Kyle
>>
>> --
>> Twitter: @kyleburton
>> Blog: http://asymmetrical-view.com/
>> Fun: http://snapclean.me/
>
>
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