[OKC JUG] June Meeting - What Is Functional Programming and Why Should You Care?

[Jason Lee]

Join us for the June OKC JUG, where Jordan Parmer will talk about "What 
Is Functional Programming and Why Should You Care?" Details below. G+ 
event link: https://plus.google.com/events/ctaq22tqfbq0mbbqphhpose1ch8


Title: What Is Functional Programming and Why Should You Care?

Summary: It's hard to ignore the growing number of Functional Programming
languages. Haskell, Scala, Clojure, F#, Erlang, R, and many more. But 
what is Functional
Programming and why should you care?  This talk sets out to demystify 
FP, debunk
common misconceptions, and highlight ways FP can solve certain problems. 
Stuck
with Java or C#. No worries! Functional programming doesn't require a purely
functional programming language. It's a different way of building. Let's get
functional!

Bio: Jordan Parmer is a software engineer at Oseberg and leads the Data 
Platform
team. Jordan has been a professional software developer for twelve years and
specializes in GIS, data technologies, and most recently functional 
programming.
You can occasionally find him teaching database classes at Oklahoma 
Christian
University.


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