Functional Brighton

Functional I/O Night

Mar 18, 2014 · 7:30 PM
The Skiff

Functional programming encourages writing pure functions that have no side effects. But if you can't have side effects (like writing to a file or displaying graphics on a monitor), how do you get a computer to actually do anything useful?

This time we'll be returning to our hack-along/jam format. We'll try to explain to ourselves how different functional programming languages look at purity by trying it out on the night with a laptop and projector.

We'll start at 19:30, but someone should be around at the Skiff to let you in from 19:00.

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az s.

Have been going through online courses between tasks using ;

https://www.fpcomplete.com/school/to-infinity-and-beyond/pick-of-the-week/haskell-fast-hard

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0 · March 22, 2014
Paul C.

Another super talk. Thanks again!

0 · March 20, 2014
darran e.

Really enjoyed the talk. Very brave thing to do, impromptu like that. Worked well. Thanks.

1 · March 20, 2014
Paul

Another really interesting night. Sharpened up my now hazy knowledge of Haskell, and reminded me again of the power of a language that allows you to concisely express nearly any abstraction

0 · March 19, 2014
az s.

Will be my first visit looking forward to it.

0 · March 18, 2014
Justin N.

I keep forgetting to go to these Functional meetups... As I have zero prior experience in Functional Programming am I going to benefit from going to this, or would it be better if I had some basic knowledge beforehand?

0 · March 17, 2014
- Richard D.
  
  Hey Justin - these session are pretty casual and go where they go on the night. I suggest coming along, meet some other people, ask questions, and see what you make of it!
  
  0 · March 17, 2014