| Paul L. Snyder on 17 May 2014 19:16:18 -0700 |
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| [PLUG] [plug-announce] Monday, May 19, 2014: PLUG West - "The Clojure Programming Language: Don't Fear the Parens" by Paul L. Snyder (7pm at FIS in Malvern) |
The Philadelphia Area Linux Users Group (PLUG) cordially invites you to a PLUG West meeting on Monday, May 19 at FIS in Malvern, PA from 7-9 pm. This month, PLUG West 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). Paul has previously given a version of this talk at PLUG Central. http://www.clojure.org/ Interested in Linux, BSD, and Free Software? Whether you're already an enthusiast or want to learn more, come and join us! PLUG meetings are free and open to everyone, and anyone who is curious is invited to attend. The meeting will be at the FIS office in Malvern, PA: FIS http://www.fisglobal/com/ 2 West Liberty Blvd, Suite 300 Malvern, Pennsylvania 19355 For driving directions, please visit http://www.phillylinux.org/locations/fnis.html For more information about PLUG, please visit our website at http://www.phillylinux.org _______________________________________________ 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