Re: what internet communities did you old-timers use to learn/discuss lambda topics?

[Spencer Russell <spencer.f.russell@gmail.com>]

The slides for that talk are here:
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/presentations/os2007/os_peytonjones.pdf

Which is useful because the camera just follows Peyton-Jones around
the whole time.

I love SPJ's talks. His enthusiasm is infectious.

-s

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 6:45 PM, Michael Bevilacqua-Linn
<michael.bevilacqualinn@gmail.com> wrote:
> Somewhat unrelated but I just came across Simon Peyton Jones talk at 2007
> oscon and it's really, really good.  Also, he's really, really British.
>  Highly recommended if you haven't seen it yet...
>
> http://blip.tv/oreilly-open-source-convention/oscon-2007-simon-peyton-jones-a-taste-of-haskell-part-i-329701
>
> Thanks,
> MBL
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 8:27 AM, Sean Devlin <francoisdevlin@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> I think that e Clojure google group would be very welcoming to you
>> discussion. Give it a shot!
>>
>>
>> On Saturday, March 24, 2012, Dustin Getz <dustin.getz@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > hi guys, i'm looking for a community on the internet somewhere which is
>> > friendly to newbish long-form discussion about clojure, functional
>> > programming, monads.
>> > any recommendations?
>> > some of the best spots are hard to find, which is why i'm asking here
>> > instead of just slamming my questions into
>> > comp.lang.clojure. discussion-oriented questions unfortunately tend to get
>> > moderated on stackoverflow.
>> > side note, Hunter H and I were talking about a month ago about doing a
>> > casual, loosely-organized mailing-list based discussion/study of SICP and
>> > lamba topics in general. Is this of interest to anyone? If there is interest
>> > I'll set up a new mailing list and start throwing out questions & discussion
>> > points and we'll see what happens, or maybe there are places on the internet
>> > where we can join an existing community. where did some of you old-timers
>> > learn your stuff?
>
>