Looks like this will be a great talk. I'm really interested in pipes but have other commitments this evening. Will the talk be recorded? Will the slides be available afterwards?
Thanks, Tim On Sunday, May 15, 2016 at 10:46:45 AM UTC+1, Rick Moynihan wrote: > Hi all, > > Lambda Lounge are meeting tomorrow (Monday 16th May) at madlab at 7pm > with a talk from PLT guru Lee Kitching talking about Pipes. > > http://lambdalounge.org.uk/ > > Pipes is a Haskell library based on a composable push/pull streaming > abstraction. > > Laziness is crucial for defining reusable algorithms which can be > freely composed together, and most modern languages define an > abstractions for lazy sequences such as Java 8 Streams and IEnumerable > in C#. However laziness is problematic when streams are derived from > resources such as file handles which are consumed incrementally and > require prompt cleanup since streams hide the nature of the source > from the consumer. This presents a risk of resource leaks if clients > fail to consume the entire stream, or inefficient use of resources if > the problem is avoided by consuming the entire stream eagerly. > > This talk describes the abstraction defined by the Pipes library and > demonstrates how it can be used to define reusable streaming > components. > > Hopefully we'll see some of you there... > > R. -- -- To post: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] Feeds: http://groups.google.com/group/python-north-west/feeds More options: http://groups.google.com/group/python-north-west --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Python North-West" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
