OK, this should be the last update. I screwed up the room in the other announcements. We are in room 3-180, which is where we normally meet. Next TCLUG Meeting When: Saturday December 4th, noon-2pm Topic: Ocaml programming language The talk itself is on Ocaml- not so much teaching the language itself, but on why you should learn it, and what it's good for (and what it isn't good for). No previous knowledge of Ocaml or functional languages is assumed. The executive summary: Ocaml is an applications development language- meaning you use to write things like word processors and web servers, not device drivers and operating systems, and less so scripts. It shines best in large code bases with multiple developers and in situations where maintainance is a concern. Ocaml allows you to write more code, more maintainable code, and more correct (less buggy code) in less time, without sacrificing performance. It is signifigantly more technologically advanced as a language than any "popular" language is. However, it is not- repeat NOT- a mere theoretical toy language. It is a deeply pragmatic and productive language- in many ways more pragmatic than Java and C++. I myself am a senior software engineer, currently unemployeed (hopefully this will change before Saturday). I've been programming in Ocaml non-professionally for ~3 years now. Where: University of Minnesota Electrical Engineering/Computer Science Building Room EE/CSCI 3-180 Map: http://onestop.umn.edu/Maps/EECSci/index.html Hope to see you there! _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Linux Users Group Announcements - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-announce mailing list tclug-announce at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-announce