BFPG FP News, 25th February 2014

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F#

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/fsharpteam/archive/2014/01/22/announcing-visual-f-3-1-1-and-support-for-desktop-express.aspx

• works in the express editions https://github.com/mausch/Fleece
• JSON lib, based on Aeson

.net 4.5 - immutable collections, nuget package - developed by microsoft. core library source available - including roslin, compiler as a service.

Haskell

• 7.8.x RCs!

• Haskell School of Music http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/HSoM.pdf

• Check Yow 2013 videos for Extempore

• Snap book http://snapforbeginners.com/

Wolfram Language

Conferences

• YOW Videos are going up for 2013

• LambdaJAM - still time to submit talks. March 12 We will probably host some brainstorming/submission helping sessions.

  • Take more time than you think

• Codemania NZ - Auckland

• April, Katie and Tony doing a Haskell workshop

Erlang RC for R17 - 1 scheduler/gc per core now. Better unicode support. Now fast.

Hack Night - Web, March 5 - Follow up to tonights talk.

IRC

• #bfpg on freenode
• #haskell-au
• #scalaz