8/17/11 - Clojure NYC-Speaker David Nolen, Pattern Matching & Predicate Dispatch

From David,

"Pattern matching is a powerful tool for processing data based on type and structure. In this talk I’ll discuss a new library I’ve been working on that provides optimized, extensible pattern matching to Clojure. We’ll cover the theory, the implementation, and future directions for this library, in particular the true goal - predicate dispatch."

David Nolen is the primary developer of the Clojure contrib library core.logic - an efficient Prolog-like logic engine. The pattern matching library continues his investigations into the relationships between object-oriented, functional, and logic programming.

David has given talks to our group in the past and IMHO, is a terrific speaker with a lot of depth, knowledge and passion about the topics he is working on. If you have not heard him speak, I highly recommend joining us...if you've heard him speak before..well then you already know what I'm talking about.

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Looking forward to seeing you all next week.

Eric