Lambda lambada - An introduction to functional programming and modern languages

Welcome to our first Lambda meetup. We'll start off with six fascinating and beginner-friendly talks giving you a glimpse of functional programming and modern FP languages. All talks will be held in English.

Introductory talk [Jens Bendisposto]

• What is this functional programming everyone is talking about?

Lightning talks

• Clojure [Joy Clark] - The power of sequences
• Elixir [Mario Mainz] - BEAM me up!
• Elm [Antoine Catton] - The good, the bad and the ugly
• Scala [Valentin Willscher] - Typesafe conciseness - best of two worlds
• Idris [Jan Schulte] - Black magic type witchcraft

Our host Sipgate is thankfully preparing some refreshments for us :-)