Starling Software K.K Language:

Tokyo Society for the Application of Currying

The TSAC is a group devoted to the study of functional programming. It meets at 7:30 p.m. (note the new time!) 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 <cjs@starling-software.com> is appreciated, but not required.

The 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.

We always 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.

Next Meeting

On November 27th we’ll have two Lisp-related presentations.

John Fremlin will be talking about his web server written in Lisp. It serves dynamic content, and is extremely fast, serving requests in under a millisecond on an average desktop machine. (How fast it is compared to some other, more traditional systems we may see at the next TLUG meeting, where he’s also presenting.)

Also, Jianshi Huang will give a presentation on Qi. According to the web page:

Qi is an award-winning Lisp-based functional programming language that offers the best of Common Lisp with the advantages of pattern matching, l calculus consistency, and optional static type checking. It uses sequent calculus notation to define types, and has the most powerful type system of any existing functional language, including ML and Haskell.
Whether it’s more powerful than Haskell ‘98 or Haskell with extensions isn’t mentioned, but this presentation sounds very exiting; I just hope can keep the Haskellers and Lispers from coming to blows.

Previous Meetings

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