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

[Dan Mead <d.w.mead@gmail.com>]

do you guys think it would be a good idea to work in a paper that argues against functional programming?

I say that not ever having read such a paper, but I assume that some do exist.

-Dan

On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 7:34 AM, Lalish-Menagh, Trevor <trev@trevmex.com> wrote:

OK. We are on for real this time!

Don't forget to read the paper, and I'll see you all tomorrow night at
the Comcast Center!

Yours,
Trevor

On Friday, August 26, 2011, Michael Bevilacqua-Linn

<michael.bevilacqualinn@gmail.com> wrote:

> Math is hard.
>
> Thanks,
> MBL
>
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Lalish-Menagh, Trevor <trev@trevmex.com> wrote:
>
> ...wow. I seem to be a calendar-challenged individual. Ye, it is 13
> days away. My bad.
>
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Walt Mankowski <waltman@pobox.com> wrote:
>> Actually we're still 13 days away, aren't we?
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 08:24:06AM -0400, Lalish-Menagh, Trevor wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> We are less than a week away from the first Functional Fall event!
>>> Make sure to read through the first paper
>>> (http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/dat/miranda/whyfp90.pdf) before
>>> you arrive so we can really dig into it!
>>>
>>> I am looking forward to seeing you all there!
>>>
>>> Yours,
>>> Trevor
>>>
>>> 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
>>> > --
>>> > Trevor Lalish-Menagh
>>> > trev@trevmex.com
>>> > 484.868.6150 (mobile)
>>> > trevmex (AIM)
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Trevor Lalish-Menagh
>>> trev@trevmex.com
>>> 484.868.6150 (mobile)
>>> trevmex (AIM)
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Trevor Lalish-Menagh
> trev@trevmex.com
> 484.868.6150 (mobile)
> trevmex (AIM)
>
>

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Trevor Lalish-Menagh
trev@trevmex.com
484.868.6150 (mobile)
trevmex (AIM)