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 much more on the consuming side.

-- yuri



On 9/26/07, Brian Hurt <[address removed]> wrote:
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> On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Shahbaz Chaudhary wrote:
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> > 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 (or how they plan on using
> > them), etc.  Otherwise, I'm afraid, our members will start to loose
> > interest.
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> 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
> when the speaker isn't up to par.  I'm not willing to be that schmuck.
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> Let me ask this question: are *you* willing to give a talk on something?
> Maybe on the demands of the finance industry, and how they're met with
> functional programming?
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> Brian
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