brandon j. van every

ML SIG Seattle is a gathering of people interested in the ML family of
functional programming languages. These include Standard ML, OCaml, and
other such.

We will meet Thursday, July 8, at 7:00 pm at

The Stumbling Monk
1635 E. Olive Way
at corner of Olive and Belmont
kitty corner from the B&O Restaurant
(206)-860-0916

Beware that the advertizement as seen from the street is extremely low key.
The sign in the window is hardly noticeable and the awning above the front
door still says "TYPING" on it. Due to the popularity of the rotating
specialty brews offered, the owner really has no need for additional
salesmanship. I imagine if you ask the locals, they can point you at it.
Especially local shopkeepers.

Things to know about The Monk:

- it serves yummy Belgian beers!
- it is non-smoking
- it isn't very big
- it's low-lit
- they have chips, feel free to order a pizza from elsewhere
- parking is typical Capitol Hill parking, i.e. bad

Non-exhaustive topics of interest to me personally:
- OCaml
- SML/NJ
- MLton
- how well these things work on Windows
- optimization rigamaroles, profiling
- interfacing to C
- 3D graphics
- OpenGL bindings
- AI
- game development
- functional vs. imperative vs. OO programming
- commercialization
- making money


Cheers, http://www.indiegamedesign.com
Brandon Van Every Seattle, WA

"The pioneer is the one with the arrows in his back."
- anonymous entrepreneur

brandon j. van every

The meeting was rather successful! Six people in attendance this time,
double the previous count. It seems that broader inclusion of "ML in
general" was worth a 100% performance increase. :-) We made a hexagon
around one small round table. Next time we will try to grab a larger table,
on the theory that we can be like goldfish growing to the size of our
environment.

Beer was good as always, mine had extra nutritious sediment. Discussion was
polyglot, sometimes venturing away from ML entirely, but always returning to
it. Patience level seems to be about the same, roughly 3.5 hours before
people feel talked out. We intend to hold to the 3 week schedule, so next
meeting will be sometime the week of July 26th. I will announce a mailing
list fairly soon to make coordination easier. Meanwhile, e-mail me if
interested.

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Cheers, http://www.indiegamedesign.com
Brandon Van Every Seattle, WA

"The pioneer is the one with the arrows in his back."
- anonymous entrepreneur