Lisp

Functional languages, with the right practices and preference, can result in simple solutions, but they're not the only ones having all the fun!

Scala and Clojure are two of the most exciting next-generation languages for the JVM. They have each generated a lot of excitement, innovation and discussion and both have substantial communities and support companies behind them

Will this year be when Emacs starts to become a viable application development lisp? Asynchronous servers, web-sockets, web-servers, threads and continuous build systems are all happening. Nic Ferrier, responsible for at least some of this tooling and re-assessment takes us through what will be happening this year in the Emacs world.

We warmly welcome Uncle Bob Martin back to Skills Matter this January! Following on from his 2012 talks, this is not one to be missed!

NEALE SWINNERTON will be giving a free talk on using Clojure for machine learning