Keynote: Pushing Types and Gazing at the Stars
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The hardest thing about functional programming is learning how to think like a functional programmer. Simple questions can lead to very general answers, but it's not always obvious how to get from here to there.
In this talk, you will start with a simple design problem and follow the types, think about composition, abstract away what's irrelevant, and arrive at a solution to many problems. With some luck you'll also gain a bit of intuition about how functional programmers think.
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Keynote: Pushing Types and Gazing at the Stars
Rob Norris
Rob writes pure functional astronomy software for the Gemini Observatory, and is a contributor to many Typelevel projects (and others) that promote functional programming in Scala. He enjoys complaining on Twitter and elsewhere as @tpolecat. Rob lives in Portland with his wife and daughter, who are very good sports.
Please log in to watch this conference skillscast.
The hardest thing about functional programming is learning how to think like a functional programmer. Simple questions can lead to very general answers, but it's not always obvious how to get from here to there.
In this talk, you will start with a simple design problem and follow the types, think about composition, abstract away what's irrelevant, and arrive at a solution to many problems. With some luck you'll also gain a bit of intuition about how functional programmers think.
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- Lightbend Scala Language - Professional (in London on 9th - 10th September 2019)
- Lightbend Scala Language - Expert (in London on 11th - 13th September 2019)
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- Clojure eXchange 2019 (in London on 2nd - 3rd December 2019)
- Keynote by Valentin Kasas on The Last Frontier and Beyond (in London on 20th August 2019)
- London Java Community August Meetup (in London on 28th August 2019)
- Why API Design Matters, and Why Yours Sucks! (and mine sucks too!) (SkillsCast recorded in June 2019)
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Thanks to our sponsors
Keynote: Pushing Types and Gazing at the Stars
Rob Norris
Rob writes pure functional astronomy software for the Gemini Observatory, and is a contributor to many Typelevel projects (and others) that promote functional programming in Scala. He enjoys complaining on Twitter and elsewhere as @tpolecat. Rob lives in Portland with his wife and daughter, who are very good sports.