---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Igal Koshevoy Date: Feb 8, 2008 12:01 PM Subject: [pdxfunc] pdxfunc meeting: Monday, February 11, 7pm, CubeSpace To: Igal Koshevoy Join us at the next meeting of pdxfunc, the Portland Functional Programming Study Group. We'll have presentations, demos and discussions. We welcome programmers interested in all functional languages and our meetings have content for coders of all skill levels. If interested, please also subscribe to our mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/pdxfunc PRESENTATIONS (1) Kevin Scaldeferri: Effortless Concurrent Programming with Erlang Abstract: Erlang is a dynamic functional programming language designed for concurrent programming. After a quick introduction to the syntax and primitives, we'll dive into some code to see example of how you can easily write programs that take advantage of multiple CPUs, and that even scale effortlessly to clusters of machines. (You are highly encouraged to download and install Erlang from http://erlang.org/download.html before the meeting.) Speaker: Kevin Scaldeferri has spent the last 6 years building high-volume, high-reliability systems at Yahoo. His interests include programming languages, the interaction between online and real-life communities, and techniques for making the development process more reliable, more successful, and more fun. (2) Tim Chevalier: Towards a GraphicsMagick Binding for Haskell Abstract: I will discuss my work in progress on implementing a Haskell Foreign Function Interface (FFI) binding for the C-based GraphicsMagick image manipulation library. I will introduce portions of the FFI through examples, as well as tools for simplifying FFI use. I will also explain how I have begun to use Haskell's type system to develop a simplified yet equally powerful interface (as compared to the C version) to the GraphicsMagick library. Given the ongoing nature of my work, I will conclude by soliciting comments on what *you* would like to see in a Haskell image manipulation library. Speaker: Tim Chevalier is a PhD student at Portland State University, where he thinks about alternative back-ends for Haskell and languages like it. He has been programming in Haskell for seven years, the first six of which he spent trying to understand monads.