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Functional Programming eXchange 2012

Less than a month to go now until the first FP event of this year – the Functional Programming eXchange at Skills Matter in London on March 16th.

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Robert Pickering has put together another great line up including on the F# side Tomas Petricek on F# 3.0’s Type Providers and Loic Denuziere on F# in large scale web apps. There’s also a good number of talks from members of the Clojure, Scala and Haskell communities.

Rob lists plenty of reasons to come to Functional Programming eXchange 2012, on his blog. The case studies on FP in real world applications look particularly compelling and Scala’s AKKA framework is definitely worth a look. Not forgetting the socializing and inevitable pub outing afterwards…