Ghent Functional Programming Group

The "Functional Programming Group Ghent" (GhentFPG) is just starting up. We'll have a next meeting at June 29. The full program can be found online.

Stay informed

For up-to-date information, join our google group (this is like a mailing list)

http://groups.google.com/group/ghent-fpg

Or follow us on Twitter

http://twitter.com/ghentfpg

And we can also be reached on IRC using the #ghentfpg channel on freenode.

Meeting information

June 29 Meeting

Our third meeting will be on June 29, 2010. This is again in the 'Technicum' building of Ghent University, left entrance. The program will be as follows:

• Pierre Carbonnelle - Declarative programming for Business Logic - a new Open-source project
• Tom Schrijvers - Monadic Constraint Programming
• Wouter Kampmann, Lieven Lemiengre - Lightning Talk on Scala

Abstracts of the talks can be found in this google groups message.

May 13 Meeting

Our second meeting was on May 13, 2010 in the 'Technicum' building of Ghent University, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, starting at 19:00. The program was as follows:

• Atze Dijkstra: The Utrecht Haskell Compiler
• Jean-Christophe Mincke: An Introduction To Monads
• Drinks at a local bar

April 1 Meeting (First Meeting)

Our first meeting was on April 1, 2010. This was in the 'Technicum' building of Ghent University, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, starting at 19:00. The program was as follows:

• Jeroen Janssen - Welcome and short introduction to FP
• Jasper Van der Jeugt - "BlazeHtml: a blazingly fast Html generator in Haskell"
• Tom Schrijvers - "Functional Pearl: The Monad Zipper"
• Romain Slootmaekers - "Functional Programming at Amplidata : a tentative experience report"
• Anonymous - "An introduction to PHunctional Programming"
• Short discussion on the direction of the Ghent Functional Programming Group