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 ----- > > _______________________________________________ > > plug-announce mailing list > > plug-announce@lists.phillylinux.org > > http://lists.netisland.net/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > > Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > > General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ plug-announce mailing list plug-announce@lists.phillylinux.org http://lists.netisland.net/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug