[PLUG-ANNOUNCE] Announcement: PLUG Advanced Topics meeting February 19th 2007

alan alan at clueserver.org
Wed Feb 14 17:44:00 UTC 2007


PLUG Advanced Topics Meeting

February 19th at 7pm
Jax
826 SW 2nd Avenue Portland, Oregon

This month...

Haskell as "The New Black" in Open Source
Bart Massey
Assoc. Prof. Computer Science
Portland State University
<bart at cs.pdx.edu>

As an application development language, C has definite
issues; many folks would like to see it replaced.  One
candidate replacement is the Haskell programming language,
perhaps the most usable pure functional language to date.
The Glorious Haskell Compiler (GHC) is a top-notch open
source implementation of Haskell, producing optimized
stand-alone executables in a UNIX/Linux environment.  More
and more, open source is quietly being produced in Haskell.
In this talk, I'll give yet another introduction to
Haskell/GHC, and to its programming and build environment.
I will show off some of the features of Haskell for
application programming, and talk about a few of the success
and failure indicators.

Bart Massey is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at
Portland State University, where he works in open
technology, software engineering, artificial intelligence,
and a few other areas.  Keith Packard's and his Nickle
programming language has been in development for the past
20+ years.  Bart is not a fluent Haskell programmer, but he
is down the hall from many of the inventors of the language
and their advisors, and hopes some of that has rubbed off.

Usual meeting rules apply.




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