Suggestions for future discussions

[patvarilly]

Following up on the discussion at the end of the last meet-up, I wanted to suggest working through the following book on functional data structures:

http://www.amazon.com/Purely-Functional-Structures-Chris-Okasaki/dp/0521663504

(a pdf of the thesis that this book is based on can be found here: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/theses/okasaki.pdf).

The books talks about lots of data structures that are set up to be efficient while still being immutable. It might be a fun and challenging exercise to implement some/all of these in Scala. Apart from exercising the language, I think that many of these data structures might be completely new to many of us.

[octonato]

Hi Patrick,

Very interesting. We can surely do it.

We were planning to start a study group about this book:
http://www.manning.com/bjarnason/

Maybe it's something we can do in combination. For instance, follow Runar's book and take some examples from Okasaki's book to implement.

We'll be working on the scheduling for the first half and we surely consider it.