HDLUG Meeting Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Posted by Ryan Riley on January 20, 2010|Comments

Join us for our next HDLUG, a group for discussing the dynamic languages available for the .NET platform. Jeremey Barrett will be speaking on Clojure, and pizza will be provided. The meeting will be held at 6:30pm at the Microsoft office in Houston, TX: 2000 W Sam Houston Pkwy S Ste 350, Houston, TX 77042.

Abstract: Clojure is a dynamically-typed Lisp that natively targets the JVM (and now the CLR), emphasizing functional programming, immutability, and language enforcement of concurrency semantics. Clojure is an exciting language that represents some really good thinking on the future of software development. There will be a presentation on the language, what makes it new and interesting, and why you should care, followed by discussion and examples.

About Jeremey Barrett: Jeremey Barrett is a senior engineer at Nokia and has been a software developer professionally for 20 years. Jeremey has worked on a wide range of projects including SGML parsers and early Internet web commerce/security at a tiny startup, cryptography at the Naval Research Lab, multiple SSL/TLS implementations, and TCP clustering, SSL-VPN, enterprise VoIP/FMC, and Ovi.com at Nokia. Jeremey has done work in a long list of languages, but most of his professional work has been in C, C++, Python, Ruby, and Java. Jeremey currently works on a new service as part of Ovi.com, mainly in Java (JEE), but with hopes of replacing the Java language with something more conducive to good software.