Functional Geekery Episode 111 – Stian Veum Møllersen 37616d

In this episode I talk with Stian Veum Møllersen. We talk his introduction to programming, exploring programming languages, “Perlis Languages”, Concatenative Languages, Creative Programming, and more. Our Guest, Stian Veum Møllersen @mollerse on Twitter mollerse on Github Conference Announcements LambdaWorld will be taking place in Cadiz, Spain on October 26th and 27th. For more information visit and to keep updated visit http://www.lambda.world/. CodeMesh is coming up November 8th and 9th in London. For more information, and to keep an eye open for registration, visit http://www.codemesh.io/. Clojure SYNC will be taking place in New Orleans on February 15th & 16th of 2018. For more information and to visit: http://clojuresync.com/. LambdaDays 2018 will be taking place February 22nd and 23rd in Kraków, Poland. For more information, and to , visit http://www.lambdadays.org/. If you have a conference related to functional programming, me, and I will be happy to announce it. Announcements Some of you have asked how you can Functional Geekery, in that vein, Functional Geekery now has a Patreon Page. If that is one of the ways you would like to show your , you can find out more at https://www.patreon.com/fngeekery. Topics [@2:42] About Stian How Stian got into programming Java Starting out as a consulting “I didn’t see programming as fun; it was more of a means to an end” Discovering the fun of programming through front end development ClojureScript Elm PureScript Prolog Michael Fogus’ Perlis Languages post Eifell Joy (mirror) What about web development sparked the excitement about programming Angus Croll – Break all the rules Jed Schmidt browserver: a node.js HTTP server, in your browse What sparked the excitement about learning about different languages “I wanted to understand how we arrived at this point in history” “If you take a framework to its ultimate conclusion you end up with a language anyway” Evolution of language learning exploration Java and Python in University Functions as Values in JavaScript Clojure Exposure to the idea of Language Families Lisp Racket Scheme F# Standard ML Programming Languages Coursera Course by Dan Grossman Prolog “A language even stranger than Prolog” First exposure Concatenative Languages Difference between Stack-based and Concatenative Languages Joy (mirror) Experience when starting to learn Joy The balance between declarative versus imperative in Concatenative Languages Difficulty of just programming your way to a solution without thinking about the problem Thinking Forth How Concatenative Languages change your thinkings Focus on Factoring in Thinking Forth Algol Cobol C++ Smalltalk Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code Stian’s presentation at CodeMesh 2017 How Creative Programming works well with Concatenative Languages Recommendations on getting started with Concatenative Languages Read-Eval-Print-?ove Joy Factor Flatmap Oslo 2017 presentation (slides) ait turtle-ait FARM 2017 presentation (slides) #concatenative on FreeNode Concatenative Languages wiki As always, a giant Thank You goes to David Belcher for the logo design. 5o305h