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 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
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> 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.
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> Brian
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