Southern California's First Region Wide Meeting

It's time we get together and put some faces behind the names. The primary focus of this meeting will be to figure out what we want out of this group and how best to organize it. So come get some Mexican food with spicy lambda sauce.

Sunday, July 13th at 6pm
Moreno's Restaurant
4328 E Chapman Ave
Orange, CA 92869

Member Service: Blog Feed

SoCalFP is adding a small service to help SoCal FPers get to know each other. If you or your organization are in southern California and blog about functional programming, please send a link to me (jamesiry [a] gmail.com) or post it on the SoCalFP mailing list. I'll add a feed to the sidebar on the main SoCalFP page.

Lambda in the Sun

Announcing the creation of Southern California Functional Programmers (SoCalFP), a group for people in Los Angeles, Orange County, and San Diego to meet in person and/or virtually to discuss, debate, present, and learn about functional programming concepts and techniques in various languages.

You might ask, "why a functional programming group in Southern California?"

Well, SoCal, wake up and smell the lambda. There's increasing interest in bastions of functional programming like Haskell and various Lisps; popular mainstream languages like Ruby and Python have lambda (or lambda like) capabilities; hybrid OO/functional languages like F# and Scala are generating buzz; C# 3.0 has embraced core functional ideas like closures and monads; and even staid, conservative Java may get some functional goodness in the next version. Perhaps most importantly, programmers can't ignore the oncoming multi-core freight train and Erlang has shown that concurrency and functional programming go together like peanut butter and chocolate.

If you're intrigued come visit our main site and join our mailing list.