[Steering Committee] Offer for a June meeting speaker: Jordan Palmer

[Jason Lee]

G+ updated. I'll get the web site and email later this evening.


On 6/6/16 6:36 PM, Ryan Hoegg wrote:
>
> 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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