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Functional Design Patterns
Summary
Stuart Sierra discusses several design patterns implemented in functional languages, in particular Clojure: State/Event, Consequences, Accumulator, MapReduce, Reduce/Combine, Recursive Expansion, etc.
Bio
Stuart Sierra is a developer at Relevance, Inc., a member of Clojure/core, and the co-author of Practical Clojure (Apress, 2010) and a forthcoming ClojureScript book from O’Reilly. He has been involved with open-source technologies including Clojure, ClojureScript, Ruby, Rails, Hadoop, and Solr.
About the conference
Strange Loop is a multi-disciplinary conference that aims to bring together the developers and thinkers building tomorrow's technology in fields such as emerging languages, alternative databases, concurrency, distributed systems, mobile development, and the web. Strange Loop was created in 2009 by software developer Alex Miller and is now run by a team of St. Louis-based friends and developers under Strange Loop LLC, a for-profit but not particularly profitable venture.