Brisbane Functional Programming Group (BFPG)

BFPG Monthly Meetup

April 24, 2012 · 5:45 PM
Mincom

We have two talks this month.

Doors will lock at 6pm. If you get stuck outside, contact Matthew on 0431 926 131, or OJ on 0431 952 586.

1. Types, 2. ???, 3. Profit! - Kristian Domagala

In this 30 minute talk, I will demonstrate some problems experienced with using weakly typed code, and then show how you can exploit the type system to encode assumptions and rely on the compiler more to reason about the correctness of your programs. Scala will be primarily used in the example code, however, the concepts are applicable to most statically compiled languages.

This talk is targeted at a beginner level.

How I learned to love immutable data - Matthew Brecknell

Immutability is a big deal in functional programming. And it might just be the most effective way to introduce some of the benefits of functional programming into your daily practice, whatever your development platform. We'll discuss some of the benefits of immutability, and what makes immutable data structures fast enough for most purposes (and for some uses, even more efficient than their mutable cousins). Finally, I'll show how you might go about developing and using immutable data structures in your favourite object-oriented language.

40 minutes, from beginner up to intermediate level.

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Rob Manthey

Kristian's talk is also up. http://vimeo.com/41007040

0 · May 3, 2012
Rob Manthey

Nick's technology roundup is on vimeo ... http://vimeo.com/41182787

0 · April 28, 2012
Rob Manthey

Matt's talk is up on Vimeo now ... http://vimeo.com/41011774

0 · April 28, 2012
Ed Schache

Another enlightening meetup that makes me want to crack out a different language or two. Also a massive thanks to Kristian for bring some of his brew for us to try :)

0 · April 26, 2012
Oliver Reeves (OJ)

Interesting talks and a good turnout. Good to see the troops again after missing out last month.

0 · April 25, 2012