My colleague Alex Miller has created a new group in the St. Louis area focusing on interest in functional and dynamic programming languages. He has dubbed it the Lambda Lounge (referring to λ-calculus), and the first meeting will be December 4 at 6PM.
I am very excited to be among the presenters at the first meeting. I’ll be giving a short presentation on Groovy metaprogramming using categories and mixins. Groovy mixins are a new Groovy 1.6 feature that promises to be an excellent way to metaprogram, and will most likely take the place of many category usages in the future. Alex Tkachman, former CEO of G2One, has been doing some awesome stuff with mixins for Groovy 1.6.
I’ll be sure to post any slides and code examples from the presentation on this site after the meeting.
Also presenting will be Ryan Senior of Ferguson Consulting, on the OCaml language. I’m really looking forward to that, because I know absolutely nothing about it.
So if you are in the St. Louis area, and you are interested in dynamic or functional programming, please attend the first meeting of Lambda Lounge on December 4.