2009-04-23 Zürich Hackers

I wonder whether there is a Hacker Club in Zürich? I recently met @xrb and @cnrk to talk about Clojure and Scala and we agreed to tackle some Project Euler problems using Clojure (me), Scala (Pat), and Haskell (Christian). I think I will try and talk Misha into joining us. He’s been raving about Scala at work, recently.

Clojure

Scala

Project Euler

Haskell

Maybe we should also look at the ICFP Programming Contest.

ICFP Programming Contest

As an introduction I wanted to write a text scambler: Read text from stdin and produce a text on stdout starting with the same two words as the input, but then picking the third word according to the probabilities of a particular showing up after the current pair based on the input text. Repeat the last step a few times.

Maybe I should try and go to the International Conference on Functional Programming in Edinburgh?

International Conference on Functional Programming

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I think Fernanda Weiden is living and working near you.

Fernanda Weiden

– AaronHawley 2009-05-07 19:04 UTC

AaronHawley

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Does she work on Emacs? 😄 I see that she works for Google Zürich, now. It’s true, there must be lots of hackers living around here. I wonder where they hide out.

– Alex Schroeder 2009-05-07 19:54 UTC

Alex Schroeder