Training: Tweet"Advanced Functional Programming"

Track: Training / Time: To be announced / Location: To be announced

As evidenced by the inclusion of lambdas a wide array of programming languages such as PHP, Mathematica, JavaScript, Java 8, Scala, Clojure, C#, Visual Basic, Objective-C ... functional languages represent the leading edge of programming language design. In particular the pure and lazy functional language Haskell provides Petri dish-like setting in which new programming concepts are introduced and studied.

In this tutorial we will build upon the highly popular Channel 9 Functional Programming Lectures and focus on a number of more advanced topics in fundamentalist functional programming such as cata-, ana-, hylo- and other morphisms, monads, thinking with types, juggling with code, and show how these skills can be applied in making you a better hacker no matter what language you use in your day job.

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Erik Meijer, TweetFounder at Applied Duality, Inc.

Biography: Erik Meijer

Erik Meijer is an accomplished programming-language designer who has worked on a wide range of languages, including Haskell, Mondrian, X#, Cω, C#, and Visual Basic. He runs the Cloud Programmability Team at Microsoft, where his primary focus has been to remove the impedance mismatch between databases and programming languages. One of the fruits of these efforts is LINQ, which not only adds a native querying syntax to .NET languages, such as C# and Visual Basic, but also allows developers to query data sources other than tables, such as objects or XML. Most recently, Erik has been working on democratizing the Cloud using Volta and preaching the virtues of fundamentalist functional programming in the new age of concurrency and many-core. Some people might recognize him from his brief stint as the "Head in the Box" on Microsoft VBTV.

Twitter: @headinthebox