Paul L. Snyder on 2 Apr 2014 10:17:24 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] [plug-announce] Wednesday, April 2, 2013: PLUG Central - "The Clojure Programming


Yep...the date in the body of the announcement is correct...forgot to
update the subject light before the announcement went out.

On Wed, 02 Apr 2014, Walt Mankowski wrote:

> 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!
> > 
> > ----- End forwarded message -----
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