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Meeting details changed: The New York Functional Programmers Meeting - I've updated this meeting. For more details, see the full listing: http://lisp.meetup.com/59/cale ndar/7414816/ When: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 at 7:00 PM Where: Skylight Diner
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Brian Hurt
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Apr 14, 2008
11:53 AM
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Re: [lisp-59] Functional Programming - Book Recommendations -
> Can you please recommend any good books/readings for someone who is starting to learn Functional Programming?
>
> And i specifically say "Functional Programming" in general, not any specific language; because I am hoping to understand
> basic conc
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Denis Papathanasiou
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Mar 27, 2008
5:27 PM
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Re: [lisp-59] Functional Programming - Book Recommendations - I highly recommend Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
(SICP), by Abelson, Sussman, Sussman. It's the first semester
textbook at MIT, and you can read it in its entirety at
http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/, though I also recommend buying th
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Jake Miles
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Mar 27, 2008
11:51 AM
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Abhi
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Mar 26, 2008
11:57 PM
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Meeting details changed: The New York Functional Programmers Meeting - I've updated this meeting. For more details, see the full listing: http://lisp.meetup.com/59/cale ndar/7414816/ When: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 at 7:00 PM Where: A location has
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Howard Mansell
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Mar 20, 2008
7:04 PM
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This evening's talk - I tried to send an email before but it seems like it didn't get through to everyone. Just to reconfirm, tonight's talk is at Credit Suisse's offices at 11 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10010. There are entrances on 24th Street at Park and Madi
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Howard Mansell
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Feb 26, 2008
9:44 AM
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Meeting details changed: The New York Functional Programmers December Meetup - I've had to change the date of this meeting. For more details, see the full listing: http://lisp.meetup.com/59/cale ndar/6891414/ . We also have a subject for Paul's talk now: Real-time so
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Howard Mansell
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Feb 7, 2008
7:06 PM
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NYFPN Reading Group January Meeting - As we announced during Anton's talk on financial contracts, we are spinning off a "reading group" which we expect some subset of the NYPFN group will be interested in. This is intended to be an active rather than passive activity. Ea
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Howard Mansell
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Jan 9, 2008
6:50 PM
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Implementation for "Composing contracts" talk available - I've posted the Haskell implementation for my November talk on
"Composing Contracts" at:
http://contracts.scheming.org/
It's a self-contained literate Haskell program which can easily be run
in a recent version of GHCI.
There's also a web
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Anton v. S.
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Dec 18, 2007
3:32 AM
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Event details changed: The New York Functional Programmers December Meetup - I've updated this event. For more details, see the full listing: http://lisp.meetup.com/59/cale ndar/6891414/ When: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 at 7:00 PM Where: Credit Suisse
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Howard Mansell
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Dec 13, 2007
9:22 PM
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Monday night's meeting - Not everyone has their full name on the meetup site so I am unable to give the front desk a full list. If you haven't RSVP'd by now but plan to come along, please email me at [address removed]. If anyone has any problem getting
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Howard Mansell
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Dec 9, 2007
7:45 PM
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Event details changed: The New York Functional Programmers December Meetup - I've updated this event. For more details, see the full listing: http://lisp.meetup.com/59/cale ndar/6779517/ What: Talk on F# by Don Syme from Microsoft Research When: Monday,
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Howard Mansell
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Nov 24, 2007
7:14 AM
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Re: [lisp-59] Event details changed: The New York Functional Programmers November Meetup - On 2007-11-16T14:56:20-0500, Anton van Straaten wrote:
> A point about the presentation itself: I know there'll be a number of
> people attending who've read the paper being presented. If anyone has any
> particular points they'd like to see discuss
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Chung-chieh Shan
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Nov 16, 2007
4:18 PM
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Re: [lisp-59] Event details changed: The New York Functional Programmers November Meetup - Preview not available
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Luis O'Shea
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Nov 16, 2007
3:02 PM
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Re: [lisp-59] Event details changed: The New York Functional Programmers November Meetup - Thanks to Brian for updating the site.
An additional point about the meeting location:
The meeting is at ANSI on the 4th floor. You can just take the elevator
directly to the 4th floor. Security seemed intermittent when I was
there during the
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Anton v. S.
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Nov 16, 2007
2:56 PM
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Event details changed: The New York Functional Programmers November Meetup - I've updated this event. My apologies for the delay in doing this. For more details, see the full listing: http://lisp.meetup.com/59/cale ndar/6617972/ When: Tuesday, November 20, 20
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Brian Hurt
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Nov 16, 2007
2:07 PM
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[ANN] Meeting & talk, Nov 20th: RSVP -
The following new details for the November NY FP Meetup have been
approved by the group organizers. Your RSVP is requested:
Date: Tuesday, November 20th (two days before Thanksgiving)
Time: 7:00pm
Place: ANSI Headquarters, 25 W 43rd Street,
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Anton v. S.
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Nov 1, 2007
11:44 AM
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Re: [lisp-59] Status? [Reminder: The New York Functional Programmers September Meetup is tomorrow.] - On 2007-10-19, Shahbaz Chaudhary wrote:
> I hope we can still find a meeting place for this talk.
>
> Unfortunately my own place of employment doesn't have a large enough
> facility to host a crowd. If others join me, I am willing to
> contribute fi
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Anton v. S.
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Oct 23, 2007
1:50 PM
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Re: [lisp-59] Status? [Reminder: The New York Functional Programmers September Meetup is tomorrow.] - I hope we can still find a meeting place for this talk.
Unfortunately my own place of employment doesn't have a large enough
facility to host a crowd. If others join me, I am willing to
contribute financially towards renting space for this talk.
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Shahbaz Chaudhary
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Oct 19, 2007
5:07 PM
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Re: [lisp-59] Status? [Reminder: The New York Functional Programmers September Meetup is tomorrow.] - I've still had no success at arranging a meeting space suitable for a
presentation for the Oct 25th meeting (next Thursday).
However, I've found a couple of good possibilities for November,
although I believe the normal meeting date would be on or
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Anton v. S.
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Oct 19, 2007
4:04 PM
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Talk from Don Syme (Microsoft Research) on F# - Don Syme will be in town on December 11th/12th and has offered to give us a talk. Don works for Microsoft Research and created the F# - an implementation of ML for .Net. He was also deeply involved in enhancing the .Net runtime to support generic types.
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Howard Mansell
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Oct 16, 2007
8:27 AM
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Re: [lisp-59] Status? [Reminder: The New York Functional Programmers September Meetup is tomorrow.] - Fergus Henderson wrote:
> Can I help?
Quite possibly - I haven't yet found the right person to talk to.
> If you're already talking to someone at Google about this, I'd rather
> let them organize the details, though I'm happy to help nag them to
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Anton v. S.
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Oct 3, 2007
3:42 PM
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Re: [lisp-59] Status? [Reminder: The New York Functional Programmers September Meetup is tomorrow.] - On 10/3/07, Denis Papathanasiou < [address removed] > wrote:
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Fergus Henderson
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Oct 3, 2007
2:27 PM
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Re: [lisp-59] Status? [Reminder: The New York Functional Programmers September Meetup is tomorrow.] - Anton van Straaten wrote:
> I counted four positive responses for a talk on SPJ's "Composing
> Contracts". Should I take that as a go-ahead, and prepare to present
> the talk on Oct 25?
Make that 5 -- I'd like to see that talk as well.
> If so,
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Denis Papathanasiou
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Oct 3, 2007
8:24 AM
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Re: [lisp-59] Status? [Reminder: The New York Functional Programmers September Meetup is tomorrow.] - I counted four positive responses for a talk on SPJ's "Composing
Contracts". Should I take that as a go-ahead, and prepare to present
the talk on Oct 25?
If so, are we going to be able to come up with a suitable meeting space?
I'm doubtful a
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Anton v. S.
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Oct 2, 2007
2:01 PM
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Re: [lisp-59] Status? [Reminder: The New York Functional Programmers September Meetup is tomorrow.] - +1 for composing contracts talk.? That's a great paper! On Sep 28, 2007, at 9:14 PM, Ilya P. wrote:
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Allan Erskine
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Sep 28, 2007
10:08 PM
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Re: [lisp-59] Status? [Reminder: The New York Functional Programmers September Meetup is tomorrow.] - both topics
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Ilya P.
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Sep 28, 2007
9:14 PM
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Re: [lisp-59] Status? [Reminder: The New York Functional Programmers September Meetup is tomorrow.] - a focus on a
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Ilya P.
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Sep 28, 2007
9:12 PM
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Re: [lisp-59] Status? [Reminder: The New York Functional Programmers September Meetup is tomorrow.] - same here,
Yuri
On 9/28/07, Markus wrote:
> On 9/28/07, Anton van Straaten wrote:
> > If it helps, I'd be willing to give a talk. How about: a talk about the
> > approach described in the Peyton-
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Yuri de Wit
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Sep 28, 2007
12:00 PM
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Re: [lisp-59] Status? [Reminder: The New York Functional Programmers September Meetup is tomorrow.] - On 9/28/07, Anton van Straaten wrote:
> If it helps, I'd be willing to give a talk. How about: a talk about the
> approach described in the Peyton-Jones paper, "Composing contracts: an
> adventure in financial engineering"[*].
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Markus
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Sep 28, 2007
9:56 AM
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Re: [lisp-59] Status? [Reminder: The New York Functional Programmers September Meetup is tomorrow.] - Brian Hurt wrote:
> I don't disagree, but the problem with this is that every time I've seen
> it done, there is some poor schmuck who gets stuck spending a couple of
> days a month trying to drum up someone to give a talk. And getting
> blamed wh
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Anton v. S.
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Sep 28, 2007
2:40 AM
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Re: [lisp-59] Status? [Reminder: The New York Functional Programmers September Meetup is tomorrow.] -
Would there be any interest if I put together a presentation on what I see
the advantages of a functional language (especially Ocaml) are?
Brian
On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Yuri de Wit wrote:
> Speaking for myself, I assure you I wont be blaming any
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Brian Hurt
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Sep 27, 2007
9:30 PM
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Re: [lisp-59] Status? [Reminder: The New York Functional Programmers September Meetup is tomorrow.] - Speaking for myself, I assure you I wont be blaming anyone if I at
least I was able to attend this time :-) Unfortunately I will have to
wait for the next one.
Being a new fp convert, I am afraid my initial participation will be a
little limited and
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Yuri de Wit
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Sep 26, 2007
9:54 PM
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Re: [lisp-59] Status? [Reminder: The New York Functional Programmers September Meetup is tomorrow.] -
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Shahbaz Chaudhary wrote:
> I probably won't be able to make it to this meeting. We had a large
> attendance for the first and second meetings. Perhaps it is time for
> us to make these meetings a bit more structured; invite
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Brian Hurt
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Sep 26, 2007
6:28 PM
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Re: [lisp-59] Status? [Reminder: The New York Functional Programmers September Meetup is tomorrow.] -
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Denis Papathanasiou wrote:
>
>> Just a quick automated reminder that The New York Functional Programmers Meetup Group has a Meetup tomorrow and you said you'd be there!
>>
>> What: The New York Functional Programmers Septemb
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Brian Hurt
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Sep 26, 2007
6:25 PM
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Re: [lisp-59] Status? [Reminder: The New York Functional Programmers September Meetup is tomorrow.] - I probably won't be able to make it to this meeting. We had a large
attendance for the first and second meetings. Perhaps it is time for
us to make these meetings a bit more structured; invite guests, have
members give talks on how they use FP langs
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Shahbaz Chaudhary
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Sep 26, 2007
1:26 PM
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Status? [Reminder: The New York Functional Programmers September Meetup is tomorrow.] -
> Just a quick automated reminder that The New York Functional Programmers Meetup Group has a Meetup tomorrow and you said you'd be there!
>
> What: The New York Functional Programmers September Meetup
>
> When: Thursday, September 27 at 7:00PM
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Denis Papathanasiou
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Sep 26, 2007
1:15 PM
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Re: [lisp-59] Meeting location for next month -
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Anton van Straaten wrote:
> On 2007-07-25, Brian Hurt wrote:
>> If there are no venues suggested in the next week or so, I'll go looking
>> for some public meeting space (maybe a public library) to meet at.
>>
>> Any volunt
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Brian Hurt
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Aug 23, 2007
9:14 PM
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Re: [lisp-59] Meeting location for next month - On 2007-07-25, Brian Hurt wrote:
> If there are no venues suggested in the next week or so, I'll go looking
> for some public meeting space (maybe a public library) to meet at.
>
> Any volunteers? Thanks.
Was any progress made on this? I missed
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Anton v. S.
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Aug 23, 2007
1:46 PM
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Event details changed: The New York Functional Programmers August Meetup - I've updated this event. For more details, see the full listing: http://lisp.meetup.com/59/cale ndar/6077458/ When: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 at 7:00 PM Where: Skylight Diner
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Brian Hurt
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Aug 22, 2007
3:14 PM
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Meeting location for next month - As it's Beer and Pizza night, I think it's a good time to start dicussing where the next official meeting should be. If there are no venues suggested in the next week or so, I'll go looking for some public meeting space (maybe a public library)
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Brian Hurt
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Jul 25, 2007
5:16 PM
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Event details changed: The New York Functional Programmers July Pizza Meetup - I've updated this event. For more details, see the full listing: http://lisp.meetup.com/59/cale ndar/5945368/ When: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 at 7:00 PM Where: Two Boots Pizza
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Brian Hurt
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Jul 16, 2007
5:03 PM
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Meeting details - I just wanted to drop a quick line to the mailing list to let people know what's up with security at Jane Street. We do have a secure building, so you'll need to sign in with the gaurds in the front lobby when you show up. I beleive I've jumped th
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Brian Hurt
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Jun 26, 2007
11:00 AM
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The meeting date is Wednesday the 27th! - The last email that got sent out had the meeting date as Thursday the 28th- this is incorrect! The real meeting date is Wednesday the 27th! It's correct on the website- I'm not sure why the email had the date wrong. To repeat: the m
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Brian Hurt
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Jun 15, 2007
3:37 PM
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Event details changed: The New York Functional Programmers June Meetup - I've updated this event. For more details, see the full listing: http://lisp.meetup.com/59/cale ndar/5834209/ When: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 at 7:00 PM Where: Jane Street Capit
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Brian Hurt
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Jun 15, 2007
8:33 AM
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Event details changed: The New York Functional Programmers May SIGBAP - I've updated this event. For more details, see the full listing: http://lisp.meetup.com/59/cale ndar/5739384/ When: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 at 7:00 PM Where: Vezzo Pizza 1
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Brian Hurt
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May 23, 2007
9:42 AM
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Re: [lisp-59] Proposed SIGBAP location (fwd) -
On Mon, 21 May 2007, Brian Hurt wrote:
>
> A special announcement from Brian Hurt, Organizer of The New York
> Functional Programmers Meetup Group
>
>
> I'm just wondering what people think of Ray's Pizza:
> http://newyork.citysearch.com/ pro
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Brian Hurt
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May 21, 2007
9:28 PM
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Re: [lisp-59] Proposed SIGBAP location (fwd) -
>
> A special announcement from Brian Hurt, Organizer of The New York
> Functional Programmers Meetup Group
>
>
> I'm just wondering what people think of Ray's Pizza:
> http://newyork.citysearch.com/ profile/7143976/new_york_ny/ra y_s_pizza.html
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Brian Hurt
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May 21, 2007
9:28 PM
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Proposed SIGBAP location - I'm just wondering what people think of Ray's Pizza: http://newyork.citysearch.com/ profile/7143976/new_york_ny/ra y_s_pizza.html as a l
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Brian Hurt
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May 21, 2007
4:39 PM
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Event details changed: The New York Functional Programmers May SIGBAP - I've updated this event. For more details, see the full listing: http://lisp.meetup.com/59/cale ndar/5739384/ When: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 at 7:00 PM Where: A location has not
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Brian Hurt
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May 16, 2007
5:32 PM
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May & June Meetings - Several things: - As I recall from the April meeting (which was held a week late), we've decided to have meetings only every other month. Also, people wanted the meetup moved back to Wednesday. So the next official meeting will be the last We
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Brian Hurt
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May 16, 2007
5:27 PM
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Re: [lisp-59] Meeting details for Thursday's meeting - Hi, What time is the meeting ? Sincerely, Dawa On 5/2/07, Brian Hurt < [address removed] > wrote:
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Dawa lama
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May 3, 2007
12:34 PM
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RSVP for Thursday's meeting - Hello Brian and Howard,
I just joined this meetup group and would like to be on the list for
tomorrow night. Thanks,
-Stuart Sierra
> --- Brian Hurt wrote:
>
>
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>
> A special announce
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Stuart Sierra
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May 2, 2007
12:00 PM
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Re: [lisp-59] Meeting details for Thursday's meeting - Brian,
Please add my name to the list for Thursday nights
meeting.
Thanks,
Roger Smith
--- Brian Hurt wrote:
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A special announcement from Brian Hurt, Organizer of
The New York Fun
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Roger
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May 2, 2007
11:43 AM
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Meeting details for Thursday's meeting - Greetings one and all, Howard Mansell sent along some details for tomorrow night's meeting. So I'm going to cut and paste the details and send them to the whole group. Everything after my signature is actually Howard. Brian
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Brian Hurt
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May 2, 2007
8:34 AM
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rsvp for meeting - Hello,
Please make sure to RSVP to Howard
([address removed]) if you plan attend on Thursday. You
will not be able to get through security (at least not easily) if your
name is not on the guest list.
-Jeff
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jeff
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May 1, 2007
7:45 PM
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Event details changed: The New York Functional Programmers April Meetup - I've updated this event. Note both the new date (it got pushed back a week to 3 May) and the new location. Many kudos to Howard Mansell for providing us the meeting space at Credit Suisse. For more details, see the full listing:
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Brian Hurt
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Apr 17, 2007
9:37 AM
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