Archive for the 'Haskell' Category

San Francisco Bay Area FP Group

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

I’d like to announce the formation of the Bay Area Functional
Programmers group. This group is for anyone using or interested in
functional programming and functional programming languages,
particularly strongly typed languages such as Haskell, OCaml, SML,
etc.
The first meeting will be Thursday, September 13th at 7:30pm somewhere
in San Francisco. Please join the mailing list at
http://groups.google.com/group/bayfp and [...]

Jane Street Capital Is On To Me

Monday, March 26th, 2007

If you search for the right strings, you’ve probably already seen the Jane Street Capital ads for OCaml programmers in Gmail or elsewhere, but today I got a new one that really cracked me up:

I’ll even link to the ad because it was so funny… and I do think in closures, and you certainly got [...]

“Literate” Programming, Technical Writing

Friday, March 16th, 2007

There’s been some recent discussion on ruby-talk about “literate” programming after the new O’Reilly title Beautiful Code was announced (Matz has written an essay for it). Matz’s response made me listen to all-things-Knuth, so I was pleased to read Philip Wadler’s post today on Three ways to improve your writing, which includes a PDF link [...]