Erik Meijer - Functional Programming From First Principles

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Our favorite iconoclast, http://channel9.msdn.com/Tags/erik+meijer" target="_blank Erik Meijer , presented a very interesting talk at a recent http://gotocon.com/chicago-2013/" target="_blank GOTO Chicago event, http://eventful.com/chicago_il/events/goto-night-august-23-2012-/E0-001-049879798-8" target="_blank Functional Programming Night . He originally planned on doing his popular "Fundamentalist Functional Programming" talk, but instead decided to address FP from a slightly different angle - "Functional Programming from First Principles". Has Erik changed his mind about rampant side effects and imperative programming? Whats going to happen to the poor monkey Rich Hickey made reference to several times in his excellent talk http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Rich-Hickey-The-Database-as-a-Value" target="_blank The Database as a Value (which he presented after Eriks talk)? Is Erik still a functional programming fundamentalist? Watch and decide. As youd expect, its high energy, brilliant Erik all the way.

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