Keith's Blog » Haskell http://kfahlgren.com/blog Keith on XML, Publishing, Ruby, Birds, & San Francisco Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:59:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 San Francisco Bay Area FP Group http://kfahlgren.com/blog/2007/08/21/san-francisco-bay-area-fp-group/ http://kfahlgren.com/blog/2007/08/21/san-francisco-bay-area-fp-group/#comments Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:40:34 +0000 Keith http://kfahlgren.com/blog/2007/08/21/san-francisco-bay-area-fp-group/ 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 suggest a location. The
initial meeting will be a casual pizza and beer get together, although
going forward we’d like to also include speakers, reading and
discussion of technical papers, and some hands on coding. Future
announcements and the location of the first meeting will be posted to
the BayFP mailing list.

More information will be available on the website: http://bayfp.org/.

Keith (+ Mike Wells, of Skydeck, who deserves most of the credit for initiating this)

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Jane Street Capital ad: Do you think In Closures? We do too!

I’ll even link to the ad because it was so funny… and I do think in closures, and you certainly got my attention!

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13. Many readers will skim over formulas on their first reading of your exposition. Therefore, your sentences should flow smoothly when all but the simplest formulas are replaced by “blah” or some other grunting noise.

20. Some handy maxims:
Watch out for prepositions that sentences end with.
When dangling, consider your participles.
About them sentence fragments.
Make each pronoun agree with their antecedent.
Don’t use commas, which aren’t necessary.
Try to never split infinitives.

I know the first is certainly true for me as I’ve been trying to wade through Haskell (a language into “literate programming”) introductions recently, which are very math-heavy.

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