Tokyo Society for the Application of Currying
TSAC is a group devoted to the study of functional programming. It meets at 7:30 p.m. on the last Thursday of every month at the offices of Starling Software in Shinjuku, Tokyo. If you’re planning to come, dropping a note to Curt Sampson, cjs@starling-software.com, is appreciated, but not required.
Speaking or presentation proposals are very welcome, especially by those tired of Curt droning on about Haskell all the time. Contact us at the above address.
We also rather hope to do a fair amount of collaborative coding during meetings, so if you have a laptop loaded with your favourite interpreter, bring it along!
Also, bring meishi (name cards) if you have them, to make it easier for all of us to stay in touch.
(TSAC should not be confused with the Tokyo Schönfinkel Appreciation Club a rather strange group of people who seem to have some sort of beef with Haskell Curry.)
Upcoming Meetings and Events
2009-06-25: Meeting
The next meeting will be held on June 25th at 7:30 p.m. Fred Almeida from immersion will be leading a discussion on complex event processing, he will discuss event stream intelligence, some domains that can benefit from this technology, and finish off with some code examples in Scala.
In case anyone didn’t make it to our last meeting, Curt and Bryan will around during the meeting to an answer any questions regarding the yearly International Conference on Functional Programming Programming Contest, this year hosted by the University of Kansas, from June 26th to 29th. This blog entry has more details.
2009-06-??: ICFP 2009 Programming Contest Setup Day
We’ll probably do this on a Saturday in June. All of the folks who will be working on the contest at the Starling offices on the weekend of the 27th will gather for this setup session. We’ll make sure everybody has the appropriate tools set up to be able to start developing productively from the moment we start.
2009-06-27/28/29: ICFP 2009 Programming Contest
In Tokyo, the contest starts at 2 a.m. on the morning of Saturday the 29th. Starling is sponsoring space and food for the 下町の⊥ team again this year. (The previous year’s fun was covered in this blog.) The current team roster is:
- Bryan
- Curt
- Paul
- Travis
- Robin
If you’re interested in joining the team, have a read through Curt’s write up and email bryan@starling-software.com or show up at a TSAC meeting.
TBA: Mhailist Hackathon
Mhailist is an open source mailing list manager written in Haskell. We are planing to host a hackathon at our office and would like to invite any Haskell enthusiasts. So far we have a few people that have shown interest, and are looking for a few more. Please email me (bryan@starling-software.com) if you are interested, and we will contact you once a date has been decided.
The Society’s Recommended Reading List
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Friedman, Daniel P., and Felleisen, Matthias, The Little Schemer (Fourth Edition). MIT Press, 1996.
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Hutton, Graham, Programming in Haskell. Cambridge University Press, 2007.
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O’Sullivan, Bryan, Stewart, Don, and Goerzen, John, Real World Haskell. O’Reilly, 2008.
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Hudak, Paul, The Haskell School of Expression. Cambridge University Press, 2000.
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Seibel, Peter, Practical Common Lisp. Apress, 2005.