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Re: [Axiom-developer] Simon Peyton-Jones video on the "threshold of immo
From: |
Gabriel Dos Reis |
Subject: |
Re: [Axiom-developer] Simon Peyton-Jones video on the "threshold of immortality" (and Haskell) |
Date: |
09 Aug 2007 22:42:18 -0500 |
"Bill Page" <address@hidden> writes:
| Talk posted by Bruce Stewart:
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| http://beautifulcode.oreillynet.com/2007/08/oscon_video_of_simon_peyton_jo.php
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| Slides:
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| http://conferences.oreillynet.com/presentations/os2007/os_peytonjones.pdf
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| I think this energetic talk is important at a number of levels,
| independently of the specific subject of Haskell programming. Simon
| makes a number of important side comments about the "slow death" and
| other characteristics of successful "research languages" which seem to
| apply in a positive sense to Boot, Spad and Aldor (See: slide 5)
| versus the "threshold of immortality" for languages like Fortran and
| Python.
That cuts his presentation at HOPL III last June in San Diego.
As ever, it is alsways an immense pleasure to attent or see a talk by
SPJ.
I wish we had more Simons working on Axiom...
-- Gaby