The Columbia-Area Linux Users Group (CALUG) is a friendly informal group of Columbia-area residents who share an interest in Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in general, and Linux in particular. The CALUG meets at 7:00PM on the second Wednesday of each month. Like the software that interests us, our meetings are free - and open to everyone.
Tenable Network Security is extending the courtesy of hosting the CALUG's meetings in its East Columbia office, conveniently located at:
7063 Columbia Gateway Drive, Suite 100
Columbia, MD 21046
Enter Tenable's building thru the back at the patio with the blue picnic tables.
Please join the CALUG at our September 10th meeting for an exciting Haskell Programming Language presentation by Andrew Robbins.
Andrew's presentation will overview unique features of the Haskell programming language, including how variables work, how functions work, and implications of a strict type system. For those unfamiliar with functional programming, this will be a quick overview of the subject. Features attracting programmers to Haskell include native compilation (like C), powerful generics and polymorphism (like C++ templates), memory management, garbage collection, and meta-programming features (like Lisp).
Andrew will overview the following projects written in Haskell:
The way in which Haskell's features impact the utility of these projects will be discussed, and how the projects would be vastly more difficult to implement in any other language will be highlighted.
Lists of online resources (security, etc.)