[pm-h] Functional Programming Meet Up

[Mike Flannigan]

On 10/12/2013 8:38 PM, Mark Allen wrote:
> I know some of you have already heard about this, but I am starting a 
> new functional programming users group in Houston and I wanted to 
> invite all of my Perl friends to come to our first meeting.  If you 
> want to learn more about Scala (because of Stevan Little's moe 
> project), Clojure, Erlang, Haskell or F#, this is a user community you 
> should join.
>
> Learning Erlang at my dayjob has vastly improved the way I approach 
> problem solving and writing Perl code.  Also a lot of functional 
> languages make hard problems (like distributed or asynchronous 
> computing) easier and/or simpler to solve.
>
> It's this Wednesday, October 16, 2013
> 6:30-8:30
> Pizza included
>
> The topic is "Introduction to Webmachine."  Webmachine is a fast and 
> easy way to build HTTP endpoints in Erlang.  It's also been ported to 
> Perl because it has a ton of awesomely good ideas and we like to steal 
> from the best. ;-)
>
> https://metacpan.org/module/Web::Machine
>
> Meetup Address:
> 1776 Yorktown (basement conference room)
> Houston TX 77056
>
> You can RSVP or learn more by checking out the announcement on meetup.com
>
> http://www.meetup.com/Houston-Functional-Programmers/events/142353712/
>
> Even if you can't make the meeting on Wednesday, join our mailing list 
> and get future meetup announcements.
>
> Thanks :)
>
> Mark
>

Sounds interesting.  This is the first I have heard of
Erland.  I can't make this meeting, but thanks for
informing us of this.


Mike





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