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Functional Programming eXchange 2012: David Pollak on Visi.Pro bringing functional programming to the masses
Visi.Pro bringing functional programming to the masses
David Pollak's Visi.Pro project provides a simple and powerful way for anybody to write programs for the iPad. The Visi language (open sourced at http://visi.io) is a statically typed, lazy, pure functional language. Some people might see that the language description is a null set (easy vs. lazy, static, pure) while others might think of statically typed Excel. David will explore the language and the design decisions that attempt to rectify the divergent goals for Visi.

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Functional Programming eXchange 2013

Join us March 15th to learn and share common challenges and ideas across the different languages of the functional programming paradigm! Representing Scala, F#, Clojure, Haskell are:
  • Simon Peyton Jones takes you on an adventure with types
  • The latest in F# with Don Syme
  • What's David Pollak been up to developing Lift 3.0?
  • Robert Rees contrasts Clojure & Scala
  • ...and there's Robert Pickering, Nic Ferrier, Adam Granicz, Alain Frisch, and Paul Dale!
Interested? Join our Functional Programming eXchange on MARCH 15th 2013!

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Typesafe's Fast Track to Scala

This two day course, designed by Martin Odersky, the creator of the Scala programming language, and Heiko Seeberger, a recognised Scala expert, will give you an excellent grounding in Scala. Upon completion of the course you will be a competent user of Scala constructs in application code, know how to apply the functional programming style in Scala, use Scala tools and be confident to start using Scala in production applications.

Upcoming course dates in 2013: February 25th-26th // May 13th 14th

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Typesafe's Advanced Scala

This two day course is aimed at developers with at least three months production experience with Scala. The course will teach you the advanced features of Scala to enable you to unleash the full power of this scalable language. You will also learn how to apply these to create well designed libraries of DSLs using proven practices.

Upcoming course dates in 2013: February 27th-28th // May 15th-16th

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Well Typed's Fast Track to Haskell

Andreas Loh explains the foundations you need in order to become productive with Haskell. While you will touch on the theoretical foundations of the language, the focus is practice: you will obtain concrete advice on how to best use the power that Haskell puts into your hands, and how to design robust functional programmes in a principled and systematic way - the kind of things that are difficult to pick up by reading a book.

Upcoming course dates in 2013: February 4th-5th // April 8th-9th

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Well Typed's Advanced Haskell

You will deepen your understanding and mastery of Haskell's more advanced concepts including Haskell's evaluation mechanism and how to debug performance problems. Learn what techniques and data structures to use for the most idiomatic and best performing code. We will discuss abstractions offered for both concurrency and high-level, deterministic parallel programming, enabled by Haskell's explicit side effects. An in-depth look at Haskell's type system will help you to understand how types can guide the user on how to correctly use complex code, and how to design your own libraries that can be used safely by others.

Upcoming course dates in 2013: February 6th-7th // April 10th-11th

Find out more on the course here.


ABOUT DAVID POLLAK
David Pollak founded Visi.Pro, Cloud Computing for the Rest of Us along with the Visi Language open source project. David founded the Lift Web Framework and continuously contributes to Lift.
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PODCAST VISI.PRO BRINGING FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING TO THE MASSES

This session took part at the Functional Programming eXchange 2012. You can view the other 19 podcasts here.
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