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How to Think about Parallel Programming: Not!
Guy L. Steele Jr. believes that programmers should not think about parallelism, but languages should provide ways to transparently run tasks in parallel by supporting independence-based constructs.
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Exploring Dynamism
Allison Randal discusses what dynamic means, the static/dynamic spectrum, dynamic typing, dynamic dispatch, introspection, dynamic compilation and loading, and differences between static and dynamic.
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Statically Dynamic Typing
Neal Gafter explains why Microsoft has introduced dynamic typing in C# 4.0, what it is useful for, what is DLR, and why they have chosen the dynamic type instead of other possible solutions.
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OOPSLA Keynote: The Power Of Abstraction
In a reprise of her ACM Turing Award lecture, Barbara Liskov discusses the invention of abstract data types, the CLU programming language, the Liskov Substitution Principle, and future challenges.
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Polyglots Unite!
In this talk from FutureRuby, Foy Savas explains how to approach the concept of polyglot programming. Hint: an open mind helps.
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Radical Simplification Through Polyglot and Poly-paradigm Programming
This presentation attacks the problem of software complexity and how various modularity paradigms (e.g., object, functions, aspects) simplify complexity and help separate concerns.
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Null References: The Billion Dollar Mistake
Tony Hoare introduced Null references in ALGOL W back in 1965 "simply because it was so easy to implement", says Mr. Hoare. He talks about that decision considering it "my billion-dollar mistake".
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From Concurrent to Parallel
This presentation looks at how Java SE 7 will address the challenges of multi-processor systems and parallelism with extensions to the java.util.concurrent package.
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The State of the DSL Art in Ruby
In this talk Glenn Vanderburg discusses what the Ruby community has learned about building DSLs, and shows how to build state-of-the-art DSLs without going overboard.
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Evolving the Java Language
At QCon London 2008, Neal Gafter discusses language changes being developed for the JDK7; their interactions, how they are conditioned upon pre-existing language design choices, and API design.
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DSLs: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
In this panel recorded during OOPSLA 2008, the panelists talk about the benefits and drawbacks of using DSLs.
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Evolving the Java Platform
Ola Bini talks about the current status of the JVM regarding languages running on top of it and the need to evolve in order to support dynamic languages.
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