On Thursday, January 30, 2025, I spontaneously decided to join three of my colleagues, Jules Aguillon, Xavier Van de Woestyne, and Paul-Elliot Angles d'Auriac, in attending FOSDEM 2025. When I realised that FOSDEM was still taking proposals for Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) sessions, I submitted a proposal to organise a Functional Languages BOF session around the idea of gathering the Functional Programming community to showcase projects and elegant solutions to real world programming problems. I ...
