Archive for the ‘functional’ tag.

Panel Discussion: Should all Programmers Learn Functional Programming – Oct 6

By Navin Kabra on 4th October, 2012 in Events with 5 comments.

Should all Programmers Learn Functional Programming? The pros and cons of this question that will be tackled in a panel discussion this Saturday. This panel discussion is a part of the Turing Awards lecture series that happens at Persistent’s Dewang Mehta Auditorium at 2pm on the first Saturday of every month this year. The panel [...]

Tags: functional, haskell, languages, programming

LiveBlog #tw5: Intro to Functional Programming & Why it’s important

By Navin Kabra on 18th December, 2010 in Live Blogging with 8 comments.

This is a live-blog of TechWeekend 5 on Functional Programming, with talks by Dhananjay Nene (Why FP), Baishampayan Ghose (Clojure) and Bhasker Kode (Erlang)

Tags: clojure, erlang, functional, programming, Technology, techweekend

Clojure, Erlang, & Functional Programming – Intro to FP & Why It’s Important – TechWeekend5 18 Dec

By Navin Kabra on 15th December, 2010 in Events with No comments.

Have you heard of Clojure, Erlang, Scala, F# and wondered why people are getting all excited about these new fangled languages? Then this is your chance to find out. And if you are a programmer or are otherwise working in the software technology space and have not heard any of those names, then you need [...]

Tags: clojure, erlang, functional, java, programming, Technology, techweekend