[p-news] Plasma talk at LUV this Tuesday

[Paul Bone]

This Tuesday the 2nd of May I will be talking about Plasma at the Linux
Users of Victoria (LUV) meeting.

I have forwarded this from the luv-announce mailing list:
https://lists.luv.asn.au/pipermail/luv-announce/2017-April/000210.html


Start: May 2 2017 18:30
End: May 2 2017 20:30
Location: The Dan O'Connell Hotel, 225 Canning Street, Carlton VIC 3053
Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map

PLEASE NOTE NEW LOCATION

Speaker: Dr. Paul Bone.

The Plasma Programming Language

Strong static typed, pure functional programming (FP) has a lot to offer
in terms of software reliability and performance.  FP also provides a
strong foundation for improved parallelism and concurrency support.
However FP has a well-deserved reputation for being difficult to learn,
and it is yet to deliver the promises of easy parallelism and concurrency.

The Plasma Programming Language is a new language that aims to address
these problems.  Plasma is a mix of declarative and imperative
programming and aims to be familiar and easy to learn for most people
while providing the safety guarantees of strong static typing and pure
functional semantics.  Plasma will also support parallel and concurrent
programming via a mix of
concurrency abstractions (queues, mvars etc), and deterministic and
automatic parallelism.

The project is in its infancy and is not useful.  However Paul hopes to
share his vision for Plasma's future.

Dr Paul Bone is a programming language implementer.  His interests
include declarative programming, parallelism and concurrency and
language runtime systems.  Paul works on the Mercury and Plasma
programming languages.



The Dan O'Connell Hotel, 225 Canning Street, Carlton VIC 3053

Food and drinks will be available on premises.

Before and/or after each meeting those who are interested are welcome to
join other members for dinner.

Linux Users of Victoria Inc., is an incorporated association,
registration number A0040056C.


-- 
Paul Bone
http://paul.bone.id.au