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Numeric Programming in Scala with Spire
Tom Switzer and Erik Osheim introduce Spire, a library for generic numeric programming in Scala, explaining some of its main features and the design decisions behind them.
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Ozma: Extending Scala with Oz Concurrency
Sébastien Doeraene introduces Ozma – Scala extension providing declarative concurrency – with code samples, and explores what it takes to port it to JVM.
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Erlang Web Development with Yaws
Steve Vinoski overviews Yaws with code samples to highlight some of its features. Steve also discusses internals of Yaws, and how powerful Erlang can be for web development and distributed systems.
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Functional Design Patterns
Stuart Sierra discusses several design patterns implemented in functional languages, in particular Clojure: State/Event, Consequences, Accumulator, MapReduce, Reduce/Combine, Recursive Expansion, etc.
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The Higher Order Rubyist
Robert Pitts presents tools and techniques for using Ruby in an Object-Functional style, along with the pros and cons of such an approach.
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F# for Trading
Phil Trelford describes and demonstrates areas where F# excels, such as domain modeling, computation and concurrency.
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Introduction to Concurrent Haskell
Simon Marlow introduces some of the main features of Concurrent Haskell: forking threads, MVars, asynchronous I/O, simple inter-thread protocols.
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What May Not Be Expected in a Country of Eternal Light
Noel Weichbrodt summarizes the retrospectives his team has had for the last 18 months regarding using DSLs written in Scala and Lift for a GIS application.
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Functional DSLs for Biocomputation
Colin Gravill talks about how using F# to construct a shared analysis engine and the languages used to make the individual tools.
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Making Hadoop Real Time with Scala & GridGain
Nikita Ivanov shows adding real-time capabilities to Hadoop through a demo application streaming word counting on a 2-nodes cluster.
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Clojure, Functional Programming and Data at uSwitch.com
Paul Ingles explains how Clojure’s approach to immutable data has helped uSwitch to treat everything as data and build many tools that operate on the same data without contention.
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A Type Driven Approach to Functional Design
Michael Feathers describes an approach toward planning the design of the functional portions of an application by using a variation of Haskell type expression syntax.
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