Track: Functional Web

Abstract: Programming any moderately complex system presents significant technical and managerial challenges.  Complex systems that can be composed from many disparate pieces into a large whole, yet be governed by simple rules are more maintainable and easier to build. Describing the relationships among the pieces of the system and allowing the computer to determine the optimal way to compute dependencies when predicates have changed allows for more composable systems that can be understood by a broad range of people, both technical and non-technical.  Spreadsheets, Excel, are a tangible demonstration of this mode of programming, and other functional programming languages such as Scala and Haskell support building complex systems via composition.  Please join David Pollak, Founder and Distinguished Committer on the Lift Web Framework, as he explores predicates, dependencies, functional languages and programming for the real-time cloud.