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. (But note that the location will change after the November, 2009 meeting.) Details of the next meeting are given below.

If you’re planning to come, dropping a note to Curt Sampson, cjs@starling-software.com, is appreciated, but not required.

You do not need to have any previous experience with functional programming in order to attend; interest in it is all that’s required. We always have plenty of beginners, and in fact very few of us program in functional languages at work.

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’re also happy to do collaborative coding during meetings, so if you have a laptop loaded with your favourite interpreter or compiler, bring it along!

If you have meishi (name cards), please hand some out; it makes it easier for all of us to remember who’s who and stay in touch.

As a final note, this 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

2010-01-28: Meeting

The next TSAC meeting will be on Thursday, January 28th 2010 at 7:30pm.

Our topic of discussion will start with solving constraint problems; Christopher Malon and Travis Cardwell will both be contributing here. Time permitting, Curt and various others will also be sharing some thoughts on control of the compiler’s implmentation of algorithms written in higher-level languages. (Haskell’s lazyness can make this particularly interesting.)

2010-02-25: Meeting

We are currently seeking a speaker for the February 25th meeting. Please send a note to Curt Sampson if you’ve got some ideas.

Previous Meetings

The Society’s Recommended Reading List

• Friedman, Daniel P., and Felleisen, Matthias, The Little Schemer (Fourth Edition). MIT Press, 1996.

• Hutton, Graham, Programming in Haskell. Cambridge University Press, 2007.

• O’Sullivan, Bryan, Stewart, Don, and Goerzen, John, Real World Haskell. O’Reilly, 2008.

• Hudak, Paul, The Haskell School of Expression. Cambridge University Press, 2000.

• Seibel, Peter, Practical Common Lisp. Apress, 2005.