Tech Talk: Functional programming in Swift

  • Date Tuesday, October 21, 2014  Time 11:00 AM
  • Speaker Wouter Swierstra
  • Location Galois, Inc., 421 SW 6th Ave., Suite 300, Portland, OR, USA (3rd floor of the Commonwealth Building)

Galois is pleased to host the following tech talk.
These talks are open to the interested public–please join us!
(There is no need to pre-register for the talk.)

abstract:
At this year’s WWDC, Apple announced Swift, a new programming language
for iOS and OS X development. In this talk, I’d like to give a brief
overview of the language, focussing on its ‘functional features’. I’ll
try to demonstrate that there are exciting new possibilities for applying
functional programming technology to a new platform — like writing an
app that computes Fibonacci numbers without using a for-loop.

bio:
Wouter Swierstra is a lecturer at the University of Utrecht. He has
recently written a book, Functional Programming in Swift, together
with Chris Eidhof and Florian Kugler.