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

[Spencer <screasey@gmail.com>]

Some additional (albeitÂshorter) discussion on WhyFP:Â

• http://weblog.raganwald.com/2007/03/why-why-functional-programming-matters.html
• http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/19leo/why_why_functional_programming_matters_matters/

Tracked from:Âhttp://blog.fogus.me/2011/09/08/10-technical-papers-every-programmer-should-read-at-least-twice/

- Spencer

On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 8:43 PM, Michael Bevilacqua-Linn <michael.bevilacqualinn@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey all,

Gathered together some of those links along with Hunters notes and put them up here -Âhttp://functionalfall.com/wordpress/?m=201109

Thanks again to everyone who came, looking forward to the next one!

MBL

On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Dan Mead <d.w.mead@gmail.com> wrote:

good shit. this group will be both fun AND educational (!)

some useful links:

a good thing to be aware of:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referential_transparency_%28computer_science%29

backus paper on comparing functional programs to imperative ones:

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CBwQFjAA&url="">

On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Kyle R. Burton <kyle.burton@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks to Trevor et al. for organizing, and thanks to all for a great
> discussion this evening. Notes are up at:

+1 - huge thanks Trevor and Michael for organizing and hosting and driving.

The discussion was lively and sounds like it helped a lot of
participants (myself included).


Kyle

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