Functional Geekery Episode 132 - Duncan McGreggor 3r1p12

In this episode I talk with Duncan McGreggor. We talk his introduction to functional programming; Erlang; Lisp Flavoured Erlang; Lisps, Lisps, and more Lisps; and much, much, more. Our Guest, Duncan McGreggor @oubiwann on Twitter Conference Announcements Code Mesh is going virtual! Taking place November 5th and 6th, will run virtually across US and European time zones. Find out more and at https://codemesh.io. Lambda Days 2021 will be a virtual event spread over several days in February 2021. Visit https://www.lambdadays.org/lambdadays2021 to keep up to date as more information is announced. 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 [@2:03] Welcome Duncan About Duncan M Kaypro II Rewriting BASIC games Duncan’s first exposure to functional programming Conflation of State and Behavior in Object Oriented Programming Deeply nested for loops Python LISP Common LISP Distributed Computing Twisted Python Erlang YAWS exposé on Slashdot Lisp Flavoured Erlang Robert Virding Learning Erlang through LFE Getting started in LFE “Common LISP had a much worse story than Erlang ever did” Common LISP HyperSpec Ruby Rust “Treating Erlang like LISP’s original M-Expressions“ What are Core SBCL Chez Scheme Clojure LFE Joys – Small, lightweight chunks of functionality that are distributed across arbitrary computing resources. Not super picky about tech in the job anymore Enjoy the projects after work to aspire to craftsmanship level Going Away Card software project for CTO Go How functional programming folds in to Duncan’s mentoring junior co-workers Haskell Having the clarity of thought that comes with functional programming “At some level we are all working with distributed systems” Teaching basics of Erlang: supervision trees, restart strategies, monitoring/linking processes Reid Draper of Functional Geekery “Last Write Wins conflict strategy” Enterprise Integration Patterns Deg for Scalability with Erlang/OTP How does LISP come in when mentoring team-mates “I love parenthesis” and the order of operations Low utilization of Macros Write them all the time when learning though ltest ITA Software using LISP Reader Macros Muddle Casting SPELs in LFE Casting SPELs in LISP Language Laboratory level Racket LFE Machine Manual Treasures lost in time from looking at other LISP Machine Manuals The People working to preserve the history Kent Pittman CADR machine MACLISP ARPA MIT, Stanford, and Berkeley Maxima Zeta Lisp Xerox PARC Integrating LFE and Clojure clojang jiface Some other projects on Duncan’s radar Porting The Sound of Erlang to LFE Clojure Overtone SuperCollider “LFE Chineual” Having a bare metal install of LFE on a Raspberry Pi Looking at different boards to run the BEAM on X11 and XORG tv Actively testing LFE 2.0 lfe.io LFE on Slack “Follow your bliss” As always, a giant Thank You goes to David Belcher for the logo design. 1c152s