altlang is a group of people in the Wasatch-Front Metro area of Utah interested in alternative languages and their ideas.
Major announcements are sent to the mailing-list. We hang out on #utah-altlang on freenode.
We’ll present briefly on any Factor projects that we’ve coded up, then we’ll move on to Ioke. Ioke is a very flexible and reflective prototype-based language. Matz himself recommends Ioke’s primary inspiration, Io, as another interesting language to learn.
Scala—the scalable, statically-typed, functional/object-oriented fusion language for the JVM.
Wrap-up on Scala, including the Lift framework, followed by an introduction to Clojure.
At each meeting, those in attendance decide on the topic for the following meeting. If you want a topic discussed, you should come to a meeting and cast in your opinion!