[CALUG] Meeting Reminder September 10th

[Chuck Frain]

Please join the CALUG at our September 10th meeting for an exciting Haskell
Programming Language presentation by Andrew Robbins.

Andrew's presentation will overview unique features of the Haskell
programming language, including how variables work, how functions work, and
implications of a strict type system. For those unfamiliar with functional
programming, this will be a quick overview of the subject. Features
attracting programmers to Haskell include native compilation (like C),
powerful generics and polymorphism (like C++ templates), memory management,
garbage collection, and meta-programming features (like Lisp).

Andrew will overview the following projects written in Haskell:

   - Darcs (a CVS-like version control system)
   - Parsec (a parser library for building new languages)
   - XMonad (a Ratpoison-like X11 window manager)
   - Yi (an emacs-like extensible text-editor)

The way in which Haskell's features impact the utility of these projects
will be discussed, and how the projects would be vastly more difficult to
implement in any other language will be highlighted.


See you all there!
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