January 3, 2020

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A developers guide to introducing a functional language at work

A developers guide to introducing a functional language at work

Introducing a new programming language at work can be a challenge, especially if it is a functional language. Robert Kluin shares a failed attempt and an ongoing success story that will help you understand how to sell the idea to management and improve the odds that your pilot project will be a success.
Talk Title A developers guide to introducing a functional language at work
Speakers Robert Kluin (Real Kinetic)
Conference O’Reilly Open Source Convention
Conf Tag Put open source to work
Location Portland, Oregon
Date July 16-19, 2018
URL Talk Page
Slides Talk Slides
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Introducing a new programming language at work can be a challenge, especially if it is a functional language. Robert Kluin shares a failed attempt and an ongoing success story that will help you understand how to sell the idea to management and improve the odds that your pilot project will be a success. This talk is not anti-Scala. Robert discusses other (non-FP related) successes and failures to help validate his claims.

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