DC ALT.NET Meeting - 6/24/2008 - Applied Functional Programming with F#

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

ALT.NET F# Functional Programming User Groups

The June meeting for DC ALT.NET has been set up for June 24th from 7-9PM. Check out our site and our mailing list as more information becomes available. Once again, I'd like to thank the Motley Fool for hosting the event as they did back in May. This month, I'll be covering Applied Functional Programming with F# as a continuation of the talks I've been giving lately. The beauty of this group like last month's topic of Lisp and this month's topic of F# is to step outside of the comfort zone, look to the outside for better approaches to doing things instead of the "What's new on MSDN" sessions.

The information is as follows:

Location:

Motley Fool
2000 Duke Street
Alexandria, VA, 22314
Map Link

Applied Functional Programming with F#

Recently, I've been doing quite a few talks on the introduction to functional programming and F#. In this session, I hope to cover the basics in short order once again, but also to show the applicability of where this language really hits the right areas. Are we going to immediately flock towards F# and abandon C# and other languages for all of your coding needs? No, but we have definite areas where F# and functional programming excels. Some of these include asynchronous programming, parallel programming, metaprogramming, language oriented programming, messaging systems and so on. The list could go on and on. We'll explore some of the functional programming basics and some of these scenarios as we try to wrap our heads around this emerging, yet not new paradigm.

Be there and hope to see a great crowd!

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