January BAHUG Meetup
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Announcement letter from Ivan Tarasov:
Hello everyone,
David Pollak (whom many of you probably know by his work in Scala community) proposed to give a talk at our next meeting, which we're going to have on January 18. David is going to talk about his project Visi:
Visi is a new language... a "what if Haskell and Excel" had a love-child kind of language. Visi is pure, lazy, just like Excel, yet Visi is statically typed, like Haskell. Visi's syntax is beautiful, in a Haskell/Python sort of way, yet inviting to spreadsheet users. Visi is targeted as a HyperCard-like language for the iPad and the cloud, but with a firm grounding in computer science that has evolved since the mid-80s. Visi is built in Haskell and takes advantage of the GHC platform. David Pollak, the inventor of the real-time spreadsheet, founded the Visi project which can be found at http://visi.io (http://visi.io/).
The meeting place is our usual place in SoMa, kindly provided by Engine Yard:
500 Third Street, Suite 510 San Francisco, CA 94107
Contact phone (mine): 650-762-6644. Host's phone (Larry's): 407-718-7665.
Please arrive a little bit earlier, so that we could start at 7pm sharp.
We may try to set up the video feed through Google Hangout (I will post a public link in my G+ if we do that before the meeting starts), however please don't rely on it and try to visit the meeting in person if possible. If you are going to be joining the hangout, please mute your microphone before you join.
Some people will be going from the South Bay (and probably East Bay) to the meeting and back, so there's a possibility of carpooling. Also, it's very easy to get to Engine Yard from the Caltrain station (4th & King Str) and Embarcadero/Powell BART stations. Please send me a message if you need help figuring out transportation. If you are driving and can take some people from East/South Bay to the meeting and back, please send a message to the bahaskell@googlegroups.com mailing list.
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Cheers, Ivan