[Haskell-cafe] Ghent FPG meeting on 26 June, 2013

Hello, The "Functional Programming Group Ghent" (GhentFPG) [1] is a friendly group for all people interested in functional programming, with a tendency towards Haskell. It is organised as part of Zeus WPI [2]. We are pleased to announce that we will hold a next meeting on Wednesday, 26th of June, starting at 19h00! There will be three talks. The main presentation, by Adam Bergmark from Silk [3] is about Fay [4]: Fay is a proper subset of Haskell that compiles to JavaScript. There is a compiler with the same name written in Haskell. Web browsers only speak JavaScript but more and more people find that they want to compile to JavaScript instead. Why do we want to compile Haskell to JavaScript, and what advantages does Fay have compared to other compilers? What are the challenges in compiling Haskell and supporting a language ecosystem, and how do we do it? What can Fay currently do, and what is planned for the future? This will be a broad overview about Fay for prospective users, followed by an in-depth look at interesting parts of the compiler internals. Additionally, there will be two short talks by two students who did an Msc. Thesis about functional programming languages: "Genetic Algorithms in Haskell" by Matthias Delbar "Automatic Detection of Recursion Patterns" by Jasper Van der Jeugt The meeting will take place in the Jozef Plateauzaal at the following address, Faculteit Ingenieurswetenschappen Universiteit Gent Plateaustraat 22 9000 Gent As mentioned above, we aim to start at 19:00. After the meeting we can go for drinks in a nearby pub (this latter part is, of course, completely optional) We hope to see you all there! Regards, On behalf of the GhentFPG organising committee. [1]: http://groups.google.com/group/ghent-fpg [2]: http://zeus.ugent.be/ [3]: http://www.silkapp.com/ [4]: http://www.fay-lang.org/