Sessions at OSCON 2011 about Functional Programming

Tuesday 26th July 2011

• Become a Better Developer with Functional Programming

  by Dean Wampler

  You've heard that Functional programming (FP) is good for concurrency. Mastering FP will improve all the code you write. FP changes practices like TDD; learn how design is more structured and tests are more precise. See why FP-style functions and data structures are actually more reusable than objects. Leave with new tools that eliminate bloat, improve code quality, and speed development.

  • Functional Programming

  At 9:00am to 12:30pm, Tuesday 26th July

  In Portland 256, Oregon Convention Center

  Coverage slide deck

Wednesday 27th July 2011

• Slate

  by Brian T. Rice

  Slate is a self-hosted dynamic language based on prototypes and multi-dispatch. It melds the Smalltalk and Lisp traditions, while attempting to incorporate ideas and idioms from a variety of sources. Slate is being re-invented using Atomo as an incubator along with direction from Newspeak and functional programming.

  • Functional Programming

  At 11:30am to 12:10pm, Wednesday 27th July

  In E144, Oregon Convention Center

• Structural Prototypes: Resolving the Statically-typed Object-functional Dichotomy

  by Daniel Spiewak

  Object-functional languages have a number of desirable properties and have proven very useful in practice. Unfortunately, the merger brings with it a raft of complexities, being the root of nearly all of Scala's infamous complexity. This talk will present a new framework for resolving these issue, based around the notion of statically-typed functional object prototypes.

  • Functional Programming
  • Scala

  At 4:10pm to 4:50pm, Wednesday 27th July

  In E144, Oregon Convention Center

  Coverage slide deck