Re: [PLUG] [plug-announce] Wednesday, March 5, 2013: PLUG Central - "The Clojure Programming

[Walt Mankowski <waltman@pobox.com>]

March 5? Did you mean April 2?

On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 05:27:30PM -0400, Paul L. Snyder wrote:
> I sent this notice out yesterday, but it looks like my non-Drexel email
> didn't get correctly added to the approved senders for the announcement
> list, and the message was silently swallowed.
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from "Paul L. Snyder" <paul@pataprogramming.com> -----
> 
> From: "Paul L. Snyder" <paul@pataprogramming.com>
> Subject: Wednesday, March 5, 2013: PLUG Central - "The Clojure Programming Language: Don't Fear the
> 	Parens" by Paul L. Snyder (7pm at USP, Griffith Hall)
> To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
> Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 21:21:15 -0400
> 
> PLUG Central will be meeting on Wednesday, April 2, at USP in
> Philadelpha, beginning at 7pm. Directions to the meeting location
> at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia can be found at
> the end of this email.
> 
> This month, PLUG Central will feature a talk by Paul L. Snyder,
> who will be giving a talk entitled "The Clojure Programming Language: Don't
> Fear the Parens."  Clojure is a modern dialect of Lisp that can (among
> other targets) be hosted on the Java virtual machine or compiled to
> JavaScript.  The presentation will cover the benefits of Clojure as a
> language, including its focus on immutable data, REPL-oriented development,
> functional programming, and software transactional memory.  The discussion
> will also skate through the wide range of available libraries, including
> core.logic for Prolog-like relational and logic programming, and core.async
> for asynchronous channels in the style of C.A.R. Hoare's Communicating
> Sequential Processes (which also recently influenced Google's Go
> programming language.
> 
>   http://www.clojure.org
> 
> The meeting will be held at our usual location:
> 
>   University of the Sciences in Philadelphia (USP)
>   Griffith Hall (Room "C" or "A", look for the signs)
>   600 South 43rd Street
>   Philadelphia, PA 19104-4495
> 
> USP is located in University City.Driving directions are
> available at http://www.phillylinux.org/locations/usp.html, or
> http://www.usip.edu/directions, both of which have an aerial
> view of the campus buildings. USP is also easily accessible by
> public transportation.
> 
> There will be an open Question & Answer session at 7PM, prior to
> the main presentation at 8PM. This is an open meeting; all are
> welcome and encouraged to attend.
> 
> Usually, a number of members get together after the meeting at a
> nearby restaurant for food and perhaps a beer or two. Come join
> the camaraderie!
> 
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