Mike Schaeffer on 18 Aug 2011 19:26:27 -0700


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Re: Announcing Functional Fall: A 6-session functional programming reading circle in the Fall

(New mailing list participant here):

The Steele/Sussman Lambda The Ultimate papers are excellent reading. They go into some depth on how anonymous closures and function calls can be used to represent 'traditional' control flow structures. (IIRC, "Lambda The Ultimate Declarative' walks through a number of examples, control flow structure by control flow structure.)

http://library.readscheme.org/page1.html

(The readscheme site in general is just full of interesting papers on programming language topics.)

Also, this is a book, so it's out of the scope of papers, but Christian Queinnec's 'Lisp in Smalll Pieces' is a good read too. It covers a wide range of language design issues, and has a heavy implementation bias too.

http://www.amazon.com/Lisp-Small-Pieces-Christian-Queinnec/dp/0521562473

Regards,
Mike

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Lalish-Menagh, Trevor <trev@trevmex.com> wrote:
Lambdas, combinators and s-expresions, on my!  With the likes of
Clojure, Scala and F#, functional programming has been making a
comeback.  Functional ideas have been popping up from systems as large
as Hadoop to ones as small as a multi-core processor.  Come find out
what all the fuss is about at "A Functional Fall", by Comcast
Interactive Media and Philly Lambda.  We'll be reading and discussing
a variety of functional papers, starting with "Why Functional
Programming Matters".  From there, the group will vote on the next
paper to study.  The group will run for a total of six meetings
throughout the fall, and we'll meet at the Comcast Center, with the
obligatory migration to a local watering hole to give our brains a
rest afterwards.  Hope to see you all there!

You can get the first paper at
http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/dat/miranda/whyfp90.pdf.

RSVP at http://www.doodle.com/dvd85t6iw8hs8vqp.

Check us out on the web at http://functionalfall.com/.

The dates are:
Sept. 7, 2011 6:30-8:00 PM
Sept. 21, 2011 6:30-8:00 PM
Oct. 5, 2011 6:30-8:00 PM
Oct. 19, 2011 6:30-8:00 PM
Nov. 2, 2011 6:30-8:00 PM
Nov. 16, 2011 6:30-8:00 PM

I am looking forward to seeing you there!

Yours,
Trevor
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