Tomorrow evening, Appistry will host the first meeting of a new group “Lambda Lounge,” spearheaded by Alex Miller (of Terracotta). The group is an open forum for exploring various topics related to programming in dynamic and functional languages.

The agenda for the first meeting has shaped up nicely:

[Alex is] planning on kicking off the meeting with an open discussion about what functional and dynamic languages are and we can maybe arm wrestle about whether the two have anything to do with each other.

Next, Matt Taylor of G2One SpringSource will talk about Groovy MetaProgramming with Categories and Mixins.

Finally, Ryan Senior of Ferguson Consulting is going to do an overview of OCaml, of which I know not much, other than that it is a mixture of object and functional styles, dervied from a ML-style static type system (but with type inference). 

More details are available on the Lambda Lounge site. If you’re in St. Louis we encourage you to stop by Appistry HQ at 6 pm for the meeting.