Sessions at Open Source Bridge 2009 about Clojure

Wednesday 17th June 2009

• Clojure: Functional Concurrency for the JVM

  by Howard M. Lewis Ship

  Talk about strange bedfellows: what happens when you mix one part Lisp (one of the oldest computer languages), one part Java (so young, yet so well adopted), a healthy serving of functional programming, and a state-of-the-art concurrency layer on top? That's Clojure, which "feels like a general-purpose language beamed back from the near future." Clojure embraces functional programming with immutable data types and first class functions. It is fully interoperable with Java. Clojure's approach to concurrency includes asynchonous Agents, and Software Transactional Memory. Clojure is fast, elegant, dynamic, and scalable: a language for the future, today.

  • Clojure
  • concurrent
  • functional
  • Java
  • Lisp

  At 2:45pm to 3:30pm, Wednesday 17th June

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Thursday 18th June 2009

• Functional Languages BoF

  by Joe Williams

  Lets get together and share stories about our experiences with functional programming languages like Erlang, Haskell, Scala, OCaml, Clojure and others.

  • Clojure
  • Erlang
  • Functional Programming
  • OCaml
  • Scala

  At 8:30pm to 10:00pm, Thursday 18th June

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