[Pdx-pm] Meeting on July 10th - Highly Functional Programming

[Anthony Johnson]

Hey folks,

This thursday, July 10th, we're meeting at the usual spot, and Eric
Wilhelm will be giving a preview of his OSCON talk on functional
programming:

> Functional programming is very pure and elegant when nothing can change,
> and the computer can reason about your code for you -- in theory.
> Reality is messier, but Perl and other high-level languages support pure
> functions as a subset of the procedural and OO paradigms, so why don't
> we use them more?  Functional techniques are good problem solving tools,
> useful for event-driven programs, and can be mixed into traditional OO
> and procedural codebases for better code reuse and testability.

As usual, join us at the Lucky Lab for drinks and company afterwards.

Look forward to seeing you all there!
Anthony
-- 
Anthony Johnson
http://ohess.org