BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London PRODID:-//developerFusion//DeveloperFusion.Events.Export 1.0//EN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20110920T170000Z DTEND:20110920T190000Z LOCATION:The Skiff, 6 Gloucester Street, Brighton, GB DESCRIPTION:It's often claimed that functional languages are particularly well-suited to computationally intensive problems because they encourage programming styles which are easily parallelizable.For this month's Functional Brighton meetup we're going to take close look at how this plays out in our languages of choice: in Scala's parallel collections, in parallel Haskell and in F#/C# via parallel LINQ (volunteers for other languages most welcome SUMMARY:Functional meets parallel UID:126363@developerfusion.com URL: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR