In this episode, I talk with Shriram Krishnamurthi. We cover his introduction to functional programming, Racket and #lang, Static vs Dynamic Typing, Bootstrap and Pyret, How to Design Programs, and much, much, more.



<h2>Our Guest, Shriram Krishnamurthi</h2>



<a href="https://twitter.com/ShriramKMurthi">ShriramKMurthi</a> on Twitter <a href="https://github.com/shriram">shriram</a> on Github <a href="https://cs.brown.edu/~sk/">cs.brown.edu/~sk/</a> Shriram&#8217;s University of Brown Page <a href="https://parentheticallyspeaking.org/">parentheticallyspeaking.org</a> Shriram&#8217;s Blog/Essays <a href="https://blog.brownplt.org/">blog.brownplt.org</a> Brown PLT Blog



<h3>Announcements</h3>



Strange Loop 2022 is taking place September 23rd and 24th in St. Louis, Missouri. Visit <a href="https://thestrangeloop.com/">thestrangeloop.com</a> to keep up to date and to register.



RacketCon is back in person for its 12th year. Hosted at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, RacketCon will be October 28th-30th. Visit <a href="https://con.racket-lang.org/">https://con.racket-lang.org/</a> for more information.



Some of you have asked how you can support Functional Geekery, in that vein, Functional Geekery now has a Patreon Page.



If that is one of the ways you would like to show your support, you can find out more at <a href="https://www.patreon.com/fngeekery">https://www.patreon.com/fngeekery</a>.



<h3>Topics [@1:31]</h3>



Welcome Shriram <a href="https://cs.brown.edu/">Brown University</a> <a href="https://plt-scheme.org/who/">PLT Scheme Family</a> <a href="https://htdp.org/">How To Design Program</a> <a href="https://www.bootstrapworld.org/">Bootstrap</a> <a href="https://www.pyret.org/">Pyret</a> How Shriram got into programming <a href="https://www.eecs.mit.edu/research/computer-science/">MIT</a> <a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/index.html">Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs</a> &#8220;From then, it was just like unicorns, and I&#8217;ve been in the future ever since.&#8221; <a href="https://legacy.cs.indiana.edu/~dfried/">Dan Friedman</a> story <a href="https://cs.rice.edu/">Rice University</a> <a href="https://felleisen.org/matthias/">Matthias Felleisen</a> <a href="https://www.cs.utah.edu/~mflatt/">Matthew Flatt</a> <a href="https://users.cs.northwestern.edu/~robby/">Robby Findler</a> Why Shriram didn&#8217;t work with Matthias in Grad School <a href="https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/">Bob Harper</a> <a href="https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/pfpl.html">Practical Foundations of Programming Languages</a> <a href="https://people.csail.mit.edu/dnj/">Daniel Jackson</a> <a href="https://www.csail.mit.edu/research/alloy">Alloy</a> <a href="https://cs.rice.edu/~vardi/">Moshe Vardi</a> Dynamic vs. Static Typing and Shriram&#8217;s view on Types <a href="https://www.pyret.org/">Pyret</a> as an optional typing experience <a href="https://www.haskell.org/">Haskell</a> Perspectives from a Programmer versus a Verification Person at heart <a href="https://cs.brown.edu/people/sk/Publications/Papers/Published/lpgk-tejas-type-sys-js/">TeJaS: Retrofitting Type Systems for JavaScript</a> <a href="https://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/lgmvpk-static-python/">Gradual Soundness: Lessons from Static Python</a> &#8220;We do not fully understand programmer thought processes.&#8221; &#8220;What would happen if we tried to crowd-source language design?&#8221; &#8220;Give people the language they want.&#8221; <a href="https://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/hash-languages.html">#lang</a> <a href="https://docs.racket-lang.org/ts-reference/index.html">typed/racket</a> <a href="https://docs.racket-lang.org/plait/index.html">Plait language</a> <a href="https://www.plai.org/">PLAI</a> Retrofitting types systems onto existing dynamic languages <a href="https://www.rust-lang.org/">Rust</a> <a href="https://www.pyret.org/">Pyret</a> built with types in mind from the beginning &#8220;We want you to live in a rich world of expression, not an impoverished world […] of data types you can count on one hand.&#8221; <a href="https://htdp.org/">How To Design Programs</a> <a href="https://amzn.to/3zgjVTl">Little Schemer</a> SICP as a magic trick &#8220;It&#8217;s almost like the dual of SICP.&#8221; &#8220;Go ahead and type. Let&#8217;s see what you can do.&#8221; Making traceability as central as possible <a href="https://cs.brown.edu/~kfisler/">Kathi Fisler</a> <a href="https://dcic-world.org/">Data-Centric Introduction to Computing</a> <a href="https://www.bootstrapworld.org/">Bootstrap</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmanuelschanzer/">Emmanuel Schanzer</a> Trying to introduce computing to school Using exiting teachers to teach computing in existing disciplines Teaching students by them creating a video game as a way to teach math <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rXVDwKQ8S0">Kathi Fisler&#8217;s presentation at LambdaDays 2021</a> All of Bootstrap&#8217;s programming is purely functional <a href="https://www.pyret.org/">Pyret</a> as a no-research language Focus on the user experience &#8220;There are teachers that have built up a pedagogy around the use of error messages.&#8221; &#8220;I&#8217;m left-handed, and I sometimes joke it&#8217;s [parenthetical syntaxes] the same sort of thing.&#8221; Building as a language that runs in the browser for zero hassle <a href="https://www.wescheme.org/">WeScheme</a> Tool and Language Building&#8217;s relation to Racket &#8220;If you were deeply conservative, you wouldn&#8217;t be using Racket.&#8221; <a href="https://docs.racket-lang.org/scribble/index.html">Scribble</a> <a href="https://www.latex-project.org/about/">LaTeX</a> &#8220;These are the same people who, if their programming language didn&#8217;t give them separate compilation, they would just be up in arms.&#8221; Mystery Languages The Curse of Lisp <a href="https://www.marktarver.com/bipolar.html">The Bipolar Lisp Programmer</a> &#8220;We have lost track of this very foundational fact, that programming is a kind of super-power. It&#8217;s the ability to make worlds and to sort-of bend things to our will, that is almost scary.&#8221; <a href="https://github.com/shriram/roman-numerals">Roman Numbers #lang</a> Racket is a language as a service <a href="https://docs.racket-lang.org/frtime/index.html">FrTime</a> Translated FrTime to JavaScript, resulting in <a href="https://www.flapjax-lang.org/">Flapjax</a> &#8220;Everything is a language.&#8221; <a href="https://con.racket-lang.org/">RacketCon 2022</a> Making a pitch for &#8220;our ignorance.&#8221;



As always, a giant Thank You goes to <a href="https://www.twitter.com/davidjbelcher">David Belcher</a> for the logo design.

<description>In this episode, I talk with Shriram Krishnamurthi. We cover his introduction to functional programming, Racket and #lang, Static vs Dynamic Typing, Bootstrap and Pyret, How to Design Programs, and much, much, more.</description>

Functional Geeks, Geeking Functionally

In this episode, I talk with Shriram Krishnamurthi. We cover his introduction to functional programming, Racket and #lang, Static vs Dynamic Typing, Bootstrap and Pyret, How to Design Programs, and much, much, more.

Functional Geekery Episode 141 - Shriram Krishnamurthi

In this episode I talk with Katja Mordaunt and Adam Warski. We talk Katja&#8217;s and Adam&#8217;s introduction to software, being on the LambdaDays 2022 Programme Committee, a peek what being on the Programme Committee looks like, introducing new people to functional programming, and more.



<h2>Our Guests, Katja Mordaunt and Adam Warksi</h2>



<h4>Katja Mordaunt</h4>



katjam on:



<ul><li><a href="https://elmlang.herokuapp.com/">Elm Lang Slack</a></li><li><a href="https://elmcraft.org/">elmcraft.org</a></li><li><a href="https://incrementalelm.com/chat/">Incremental Elm</a></li></ul>



<h4>Adam Warski</h4>



<a href="https://twitter.com/adamwarski">adamwarski</a> on Twitter <a href="https://github.com/adamw">adamw</a> on Github



<h3>Announcements</h3>



ElixirConf EU is taking place the 9th and 10th of June, with training running the 6th-8th. For more information and to get your tickets visit <a href="https://www.elixirconf.eu/">https://www.elixirconf.eu/</a>.



:clojureD is taking place June 11th in Berlin, Germany. Visit <a href="https://clojured.de/">https://clojured.de/</a> for more information and to submit your proposal.



Code BEAM Lite A Coruña is taking place in A Coruña, Spain on the 11th of June. Visit <a href="https://www.codebeamcorunha.es">https://www.codebeamcorunha.es</a> to register, or to find out more.



Lambda Days 2022 has been moved to the 28th and 29th of July in Krakow, Poland. Visit <a href="https://www.lambdadays.org/lambdadays2022">lambdadays.org</a> to keep up to date.



Some of you have asked how you can support Functional Geekery, in that vein, Functional Geekery now has a Patreon Page.



If that is one of the ways you would like to show your support, you can find out more at <a href="https://www.patreon.com/fngeekery">https://www.patreon.com/fngeekery</a>.



<h3>Topics [@2:51]</h3>



About Katja About Adam How Katja got into software development and Elm Basic Logo Pascal <a href="https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/">Java</a> <a href="https://elm-lang.org/">Elm</a> How did Katja get into Elm <a href="https://www.php.net/">PHP</a> <a href="https://fsharp.org/">F#</a> Elm as a beginner friendly language <a href="https://www.felienne.com/">Felienne Hermans</a> <a href="https://codereading.club/">Code Reading Club</a> <a href="https://reactjs.org/">React</a> How Adam got into software development and Scala Pascal <a href="https://schemers.org/">Scheme</a> <a href="https://ocaml.org/">OCaml</a> <a href="https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/">Java</a> JBoss/<a href="https://www.redhat.com/">RedHat</a> <a href="https://softwaremill.com/">SoftwareMill</a> <a href="https://scala-lang.org/">Scala</a> Why Scala <a href="http://www.groovy-lang.org/">Groovy</a> <a href="https://kotlinlang.org/">Kotlin</a> <a href="https://clojure.org/">Clojure</a> Immutable collections by default <a href="https://coq.inria.fr/">Coq</a> Having done Masters Thesis in Category Theory You don&#8217;t need any background in category theory to be productive in Scala <a href="https://www.janestreet.com/">Jane Street</a> Being on <a href="https://www.lambdadays.org/lambdadays2022">Lambda Days 2022</a> Programme Committee Covid making things difficult on scheduling The Programme Committee process Reading through submissions Getting a coverage of different languages and experience levels <a href="https://futhark-lang.org/">Futhark</a> <a href="https://nixos.org/">Nix</a> <a href="https://www.rust-lang.org/">Rust</a> Balancing the theoretical with practical and fun talks Lambda Days as a hybrid track plans &#8220;Meeting John Hughes was pretty cool&#8221; Bringing in new people <a href="https://typelevel.org/cats/">Cats</a> library &#8220;Embracing everything is an expression&#8221; &#8220;Go for tickets that are just about copy&#8221; &#8220;It&#8217;s all about confidence&#8221; Eric Normand&#8217;s 5 step strategy from <a href="https://www.manning.com/books/grokking-simplicity?utm_source=fngeekery&amp;utm_medium=affiliate&amp;utm_campaign=book_normand_grokking_8_20_19&amp;a_aid=fngeekery&amp;a_bid=72596968">Grokking Simplicity</a> Don&#8217;t give the names for things to understand what someone understands Where to find Katja Katjam on Elm Slack and Elm discords <a href="https://elmlang.herokuapp.com/">Elm Lang Slack</a> <a href="https://elmcraft.org/">elmcraft.org</a> <a href="https://incrementalelm.com/chat/">Incremental Elm</a> <a href="https://codereading.club/">Code Reading Club</a> Where to find Adam <a href="https://twitter.com/adamwarski">adamwarski</a> on Twitter <a href="https://github.com/softwaremill/tapir">Tapir</a> <a href="https://shelly.dev/">shelly.dev</a>



As always, a giant Thank You goes to <a href="https://www.twitter.com/davidjbelcher">David Belcher</a> for the logo design.

<description>In this episode I talk with Katja Mordaunt and Adam Warski. We talk Katja's and Adam's introduction to software, being on the LambdaDays 2022 Programme Committee, a peek what being on the Programme Committee looks like, introducing new people to functional programming, and more.</description>

In this episode I talk with Katja Mordaunt and Adam Warski. We talk Katja's and Adam's introduction to software, being on the LambdaDays 2022 Programme Committee, a peek what being on the Programme Committee looks like, introducing new people to functional programming, and more.

Functional Geekery Episode 140 - Katja Mordaunt and Adam Warski

In this episode I talk with Laura M. Castro. We talk her introduction to Erlang, Final Project and Ph.D. around Erlang, Research and Teaching using Erlang and Elixir, the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation, Code Beam Lite, Erlang Workshops and more.



<h2>Our Guest, Laura M. Castro.</h2>



<a href="https://twitter.com/lauramcastro">@lauramcastro</a> on Twitter <a href="https://github.com/lauramcastro">lauramcastro</a> on Github <a href="https://lauramcastro.github.io/">https://lauramcastro.github.io/</a>



<h3>Announcements</h3>



ElixirConf EU is taking place the 9th and 10th of June, with training running the 6th-8th. For more information and to get your tickets visit <a href="https://www.elixirconf.eu/">https://www.elixirconf.eu/</a>.



:clojureD is taking place June 11th in Berlin, Germany. Visit <a href="https://clojured.de/">https://clojured.de/</a> for more information and to submit your proposal.



Code BEAM Lite A Coruña is taking place in A Coruña, Spain on the 11th of June. Visit <a href="https://www.codebeamcorunha.es">https://www.codebeamcorunha.es</a> to register, or to find out more.



Lambda Days 2022 has been moved to the 28th and 29th of July in Krakow, Poland. Visit <a href="https://www.lambdadays.org/lambdadays2022">lambdadays.org</a> to keep up to date.



Some of you have asked how you can support Functional Geekery, in that vein, Functional Geekery now has a Patreon Page.



If that is one of the ways you would like to show your support, you can find out more at <a href="https://www.patreon.com/fngeekery">https://www.patreon.com/fngeekery</a>.



<h3>Topics [@2:51]</h3>



About Laura <a href="https://www.udc.es/">Universidade da Coruña</a> <a href="https://erlang.org/">Erlang</a> during University <a href="https://ocaml.org/">OCaml</a> <a href="https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/">Java</a> <a href="https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/">C</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prolog">Prolog</a> OCaml being completely different, even in second year of University Contact with computers as typewriters <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC">Basic</a> Studying Computer Engineering as good profession career track Course on Functional Programming in 4th year First Exposure to Erlang &#8220;I was a Lego Kid&#8221; &#8220;It will do the things I tell it to do&#8221; End of Degree Project Writing a Risk Management system in Erlang Modeling policies as processes Pattern Matching Doing Research in the Computer Engineering world Ph.D. on what Functional Programming helped put on the table <a href="https://www.erlang.org/doc/man/dialyzer.html">Dialyzer</a> Seeing what it would be like to work in academia and the research world <a href="https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi">Delphi</a> &#8220;What did functional programming bring to the table?&#8221; State in Processes Pattern Matching Recursions &#8220;[…] they seem straight forward 20 years later&#8221; <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN0qG-i1iT0">Matthew Flatt &#8211; A Racket Perspective on Research, Education, and Production</a> Keeping research close to industry Teaching Erlang in her Software Architecture course &#8220;They&#8217;ve never seen really distributed architectures&#8221; Automatic Validation and Testing &#8220;You specify what you want to test&#8221; <a href="https://github.com/proper-testing/proper">Proper</a> <a href="https://amzn.to/3vUSJrs">Designing for Scalability with Erlang and OTP</a> <a href="https://www.whatsapp.com/">WhatsApp</a> Suffering from the Secrecy of Using Erlang <a href="https://erlef.org/">Erlang Ecosystem Foundation</a> Overview of the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation <a href="https://erlef.org/wg/education">Education Working Group</a> <a href="https://www.erlang.org/doc/design_principles/des_princ.html#behaviours">OTP Behaviors</a> <a href="https://github.com/elixir-ecto/ecto">Ecto</a> University of Kent Erlang Master Classes; <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKRyAb7d8lo&amp;list=PLR812eVbehlwEArT3Bv3UfcM9wR3AEZb5">Class 1</a>; <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYgEny1goCY&amp;list=PLR812eVbehlwq4qbqswOWH7NLKjodnTIn">Class 2</a>; <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HVvzSsdW9k&amp;list=PLR812eVbehlx6vgWGf2FLHjkksAEDmFjc">Class 3</a> <a href="https://exercism.org/">exercism</a> <a href="https://github.com/erlware/erlang-camp">Erlang Camp</a> <a href="https://www.manning.com/books/erlang-and-otp-in-action?utm_source=fngeekery&amp;utm_medium=affiliate&amp;utm_campaign=affiliate&amp;a_aid=fngeekery">Erlang and OTP in Action</a> <a href="https://www.codebeamcorunha.es">Code BEAM Lite A Coruña</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/CodeBEAMio">Code BEAM Twitter Account</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/CodeBEAMCorunha">Code BEAM A Coruña Twitter Account</a> <a href="https://www.codebeamcorunha.es/#sponsors">Sponsorships for Code BEAM Lite</a> <a href="https://www.erlang.org/community/workshops">Erlang Workshops</a> <a href="https://about.me/elbrujohalcon">Brujo Benavides</a> <a href="https://icfp21.sigplan.org/details/erlang-2021-papers/1/Detecting-Oxbow-Code-in-Erlang-Codebases-with-the-Highest-Degree-of-Certainty">Erlang Workshop with Laura and Brujo</a> <a href="https://tech.nextroll.com/blog/dev/2021/01/06/erlang-rebar3-hank.html">Hank</a> <a href="https://rebar3.readme.io/docs/getting-started">Rebar 3</a> Property Based Testing Training Workshop coming soon <a href="https://telegram.org/">Telegram</a>



As always, a giant Thank You goes to <a href="https://www.twitter.com/davidjbelcher">David Belcher</a> for the logo design.

<description>In this episode I talk with Laura M. Castro. We talk her introduction to Erlang, Final Project and Ph.D. around Erlang, Research and Teaching using Erlang and Elixir, the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation, Code Beam Lite, Erlang Workshops and more.</description>

Functional Geeks, Geeking Functionally.

In this episode I talk with Laura M. Castro. We talk her introduction to Erlang, Final Project and Ph.D. around Erlang, Research and Teaching using Erlang and Elixir, the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation, Code Beam Lite, Erlang Workshops and more.

Functional Geekery Episode 139 - Laura M. Castro

In this episode I talk with Aleksander Lisiecki. We talk his introduction to Erlang, non-standard use cases for Erlang and Elixir, Erlang and Elixir School, and more.



<h2>Our Guest, Aleksander Lisiecki.</h2>



<a href="https://twitter.com/AlekLisiecki">@AlekLisiecki</a> on Twitter <a href="https://github.com/aleklisi">aleklisi</a> on Github <a href="mailto:aleksander.lisiecki@erlang-solutions.com">Aleksander&#8217;s Email at Erlang Solutions</a>



<h3>Announcements</h3>



ElixirConf EU is taking place the 9th and 10th of June, with training running the 6th-8th. For more information and to get your tickets visit <a href="https://www.elixirconf.eu/">https://www.elixirconf.eu/</a>.



:clojureD is taking place June 11th in Berlin, Germany. Visit <a href="https://clojured.de/">https://clojured.de/</a> for more information and to submit your proposal.



Lambda Days 2022 has been moved to the 28th and 29th of July in Krakow, Poland. Visit <a href="https://www.lambdadays.org/lambdadays2022">lambdadays.org</a> to keep up to date.



Some of you have asked how you can support Functional Geekery, in that vein, Functional Geekery now has a Patreon Page.



If that is one of the ways you would like to show your support, you can find out more at <a href="https://www.patreon.com/fngeekery">https://www.patreon.com/fngeekery</a>.



<h3>Topics [@2:44]</h3>



About Aleksander <a href="https://www.lambdadays.org">Lambda Days</a> <a href="https://www.erlang.org/">Erlang</a> <a href="https://elixir-lang.org/">Elixir</a> <a href="https://www.haskell.org/">Haskell</a> Software background coming into University <a href="https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/">Java</a> <a href="https://isocpp.org/">C++</a> Taking a class on Ada and Erlang <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/piotr-matyasik-98288562/">Piotr Matyasik</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_5">Ariane 5</a> Getting an Internship in Erlang <a href="https://www.erlang-solutions.com/">Erlang Solutions</a> School of Erlang <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/slaski/">Michal Slaski</a> <a href="https://www.stritzinger.com/">Peer Stritzinger</a> <a href="https://www.grisp.org/">GRiSP boards</a> Aleksander&#8217;s School of Erlang repos on Github



<ul><li><a href="https://github.com/aleklisi/School_of_Erlang_Fall_2020">Fall of 2020</a></li><li><a href="https://github.com/aleklisi/School-of-Erlang">Fall of 2019</a></li><li><a href="https://github.com/aleklisi/SchoolOfErlangAndElixir2022">April 2022</a></li></ul>



Things appealing about Erlang Tooling for inspecting and observing the system <a href="https://kubernetes.io/">Kubernetes</a> <a href="https://www.erlang.org/doc/man/application.html">Erlang Application</a> Concurrency and Parallelism in Erlang Common Roadblocks to Understanding Erlang and Elixir Prolog like syntax Tooling <a href="https://rebar3.readme.io/docs/getting-started">Rebar3</a> <a href="https://github.com/josefs/Gradualizer">Gradualizer</a> <a href="https://github.com/esl/gradient">Gradient</a> Processes in the BEAM <a href="https://spawnfest.org/">Spawnfest</a> <a href="https://www.erlang-solutions.com/blog/aleksander-lisieckis-prize-winning-earangodb-at-spawnfest-2021/">Aleksander&#8217;s post on Spawnfest</a> <a href="https://neo4j.com/">Neo4j</a> Other interesting projects in Erlang and Elixir Aleksander has done <a href="https://www.erlang-solutions.com/blog/the-sound-of-erlang-how-to-use-erlang-as-an-instrument/">The Sound of Erlang</a> <a href="https://github.com/ut-proj/undertone">Undertone</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMkQKxzivXk&amp;list=PLvL2NEhYV4Zvmd7P5p2hz8D0-QkIKuwOt&amp;index=123">Duncan McGreggor&#8217;s presentation on Undertone</a> <a href="https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-zero-w/">Raspberry Pi Zero W</a> Building a coal stove refill monitor application <a href="https://firebase.google.com/">Firebase</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy's_law">Murphy&#8217;s Law</a> Aleksander&#8217;s upcoming talk at Lambda Days <a href="https://www.lambdadays.org/lambdadays2022">Lambda Days 2022</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/joanna-wrona-0aa01078/">Joanna Wrona</a> Slightly non-standard use cases for Erlang Web Scraping <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Carlo_method">Monte Carlo Simulations</a> <a href="https://www.elixirconf.eu/">ElixirConf EU 2022</a>



As always, a giant Thank You goes to <a href="https://www.twitter.com/davidjbelcher">David Belcher</a> for the logo design.

<description>In this episode I talk with Aleksander Lisiecki. We talk his introduction to Erlang, non-standard use cases for Erlang and Elixir, Erlang and Elixir School, and more.</description>

In this episode I talk with Aleksander Lisiecki. We talk his introduction to Erlang, non-standard use cases for Erlang and Elixir, Erlang and Elixir School, and more.

Functional Geekery Episode 138 - Aleksander Lisiecki

In this episode I talk with Renzo Borgatti. We talk his introduction to Clojure, learning the extended vocabulary of Clojure, his book Clojure: The Essential Reference, gems in the Clojure language, side projects, and much more.



<h2>Our Guest, Renzo Borgatti.</h2>



<a href="https://twitter.com/reborg">@reborg</a> on Twitter <a href="https://github.com/reborg">reborg</a> on Github <a href="https://reborg.net/">https://reborg.net/</a> <a href="https://www.manning.com/books/clojure-the-essential-reference?utm_source=fngeekery&amp;utm_medium=affiliate&amp;utm_campaign=book_borgatti_clojure_12_6_16&amp;a_aid=fngeekery&amp;a_bid=1f3628a7">Clojure: The Essential Reference</a> from Manning



<h3>Announcements</h3>



ElixirConf EU is taking place the 9th and 10th of June, with training running the 6th-8th. For more information and to get your tickets visit <a href="https://www.elixirconf.eu/">https://www.elixirconf.eu/</a>.



:clojureD is taking place June 11th in Berlin, Germany. Visit <a href="https://clojured.de/">https://clojured.de/</a> for more information and to submit your proposal.



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Welcome Renzo About Renzo <a href="https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/">Java</a> <a href="https://www.fnal.gov/">Fermilab</a> <a href="https://rubyonrails.org/">Ruby on Rails</a> <a href="https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/ProgrammingWithObjectiveC/Introduction/Introduction.html">Objective C</a> <a href="https://clojure.org/">Clojure</a> <a href="https://www.infoq.com/">InfoQ</a> <a href="http://www.clojurekoans.com/">Clojure Koans</a> What kind of foundation looking at Ruby from Java set for Clojure Landing on Clojure too late to chat freely with Rich Hickey on IRC Components as a way for dependency injection Common Functional ideas Renzo wound up adopting before leaving Java Understanding the idioms of Clojure and the effect they have on code Learning how to organize larger codebases Limitations of working with a restricted vocabulary &#8220;Being curious about what else was there and I was not using&#8221; Reading Clojure source code Refreshing one-self by looking at Clojure source code <a href="https://www.manning.com/books/clojure-the-essential-reference?utm_source=fngeekery&amp;utm_medium=affiliate&amp;utm_campaign=book_borgatti_clojure_12_6_16&amp;a_aid=fngeekery&amp;a_bid=1f3628a7">Clojure: The Essential Reference</a> from Manning What Hidden Gems found when writing the book <a href="https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/fnil">fnil</a> <a href="https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/juxt">juxt</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatory_logic">Combinators</a> Swap combinator <a href="https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/projects/scheme/">Scheme</a> &#8220;Understanding what does it mean to be a Lisp&#8221; Actor Model Continuations <a href="https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/loom/Main">Project Loom</a> <a href="https://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rpressler/loom/Loom-Proposal.html">Project Loom Proposal</a> Other insights from working on the book Software Transaction Memory &#8220;It made me realize how deep, and how thought out, the implementation in Clojure is&#8221; <a href="https://www.braveclojure.com/">Clojure for the Brave and the True</a> <a href="https://amzn.to/3NttHqd">Clojure Programming</a> Other things Renzo is involved with <a href="https://github.com/reborg/parallel">parallel</a> Wishing for an &#8220;Audible for [Technical] Papers&#8221; <a href="https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love/blob/master/design/out-of-the-tar-pit.pdf">Out of the Tar Pit</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/PapersWeLove/videos">Papers We Love presentations</a> <a href="https://www.reclojure.org/">re:Clojure</a> Takeaways from re:Clojure <a href="https://anchor.fm/london-clojurians">Clojurians Podcast</a> Virtual conference benefits Hybrid conferences as an interesting experiment to give best of both worlds <a href="https://www.lambdadays.org/lambdadays2022">Lambda Days</a> <a href="https://www.elixirconf.eu/">Elixir Conf EU</a> <a href="https://www.erlang-solutions.com/">Erlang Solutions</a> <a href="https://codesync.global/">Code Sync</a> <a href="https://codesync.global/conferences/code-mesh-ldn/">Code Mesh</a> <a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3158140">Tower of Interpreters</a> Stratified Design <a href="https://www.juxt.pro/">JUXT</a> <a href="https://www.juxt.pro/blog/new-clojure-iteration">The new Clojure &#8220;iteration&#8221; function</a> blog post <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prolog">Prolog</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datalog">Datalog</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert_system">Expert Systems</a>



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<description>In this episode I talk with Renzo Borgatti. We talk his introduction to Clojure, learning the extended vocabulary of Clojure, his book Clojure: The Essential Reference, gems in the Clojure language, side projects, and much more.</description>

In this episode I talk with Renzo Borgatti. We talk his introduction to Clojure, learning the extended vocabulary of Clojure, his book Clojure: The Essential Reference, gems in the Clojure language, side projects, and much more.

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