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  • Erlang Inventors Talk Language Future

    In this interview Joe Armstrong and Robert Virding, co-inventors of the Erlang language, talk about the future of the language, including its use in web programming, its ability to scale and more. The duo also discuss Erlang support for NoSQL databases, running the language on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and comparisons with other languages such as Google’s Go.

    Erlang Inventors Talk Language Future
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    35:24
  • Debasish Ghosh on DSLs and Akka

    Debasish Gosh talks about Domain Specific Languages: how to build DSLs with Scala or XText, real world DSLs, parser combinators and monads. Also: how Akka brings actor-based programming to the JVM.

    Debasish Ghosh on DSLs and Akka
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    21:09
  • Nick Kallen Discusses Scala at Twitter

    Nick Kallen from Twitter is interviewed by Randy Shoup about Twitter’s use of the Scala programming language. Nick discusses using Scala to build high-performance and scalable network services (including FlockDB), the powerful dualism of Scala which combines the best of object-oriented and functional approaches and also provides his views on the tradeoffs between static and dynamic languages.

    Nick Kallen Discusses Scala at Twitter
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    18:09
  • Venkat Subramaniam on JVM Languages

    Venkat Subramaniam talks about the characteristics of JVM languages like Groovy, JRuby and Scala, and their applicability in enterprise applications. He also mentions several implementation details and finishes by addressing issues of lifelong learning for developers.

    Venkat Subramaniam on JVM Languages
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    39:27
  • Martin Odersky on the Future of Scala

    In this interview Martin Odersky, the creator of the Scala language talks about work on the next version of Scala and how the functionalities in the JVM help make Scala better. Odersky touches on how some of the most popular entities on the web, such as Twitter and LinkedIn use Scala. And he discusses the complexity of the language and its role as a functional and object-oriented language.

    Martin Odersky on the Future of Scala
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    36:59
  • Dean Wampler on the State of Scala: 2.8, Concurrency, Functional Programming

    Dean Wampler discusses the state of Scala: the big changes in 2.8, the Scala on .NET, concurrency and parallelism with Scala and Akka, and experiences with adoption of functional languages.

    Dean Wampler on the State of Scala: 2.8, Concurrency, Functional Programming
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    27:10
  • What’s Next for jclouds?

    Adrian Cole discusses his jclouds project, which is an open source library that helps Java developers get started in the cloud and reuse their Java development skills. Cole also talks about some of the challenges of creating a cloud agnostic library, such as the use of different hypervisors and that various cloud implementations are written in different languages, such as VB, Python, Ruby, etc.

    What’s Next for jclouds?
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    21:02
  • Scala, Erlang, F# Creators Discuss Functional Languages

    In this interview from the Erlang Factory event in London, three creators of modern functional languages -- Martin Odersky, creator of Scala; Joe Armstrong, a creator of Erlang; and Don Syme, creator of F# -- discuss the similarities and differences of their creations. They also discuss their languages’ common thread -- that they integrate object-oriented features in functional languages.

    Scala, Erlang, F# Creators Discuss Functional Languages
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    32:36
  • Kresten Krab Thorup Discusses Programming Languages, Concurrency and Integration

    Kresten answers questions about current programming languages and problems they solve. He also tries to look at what is missing for addressing issues we face today such as concurrency. He discusses its importance and tries to portray the language that would take us to the next level helping to tackle these issues easily.

    Kresten Krab Thorup Discusses Programming Languages, Concurrency and Integration
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  • Jim Coplien: Why DCI is the Right Architecture for Right Now

    Jim Coplien, co-creator of Data, Context and Interaction (DCI) architecture, covers a variety of topics including DCI, the importance of language support for DCI and the state of Agile development. Coplien has championed the DCI architecture with Trygve ReensKaug, the inventor of the Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture, which separates data and its processing from presentation.

    Jim Coplien: Why DCI is the Right Architecture for Right Now
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    51:48
  • Stuart Halloway on Clojure and Functional Programming

    Relevance, Inc. co-founder Stuart Halloway discusses Clojure and functional programing on the JVM in depth, and touches on the uses of a number of other modern JVM languages including JRuby, Groovy, Scala and Haskell. He also makes a case for structural edit modes in IDEs, and shares some of his favorite IT books.

    Stuart Halloway on Clojure and Functional Programming
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    51:48
  • Dean Wampler on Programming Languages

    This interview begins with a discussion of functional programming, the use of Scala by programmers trained in Java and the differences between purely functional languages like Haskell and hybrids like Scala. Later in the interview other programming languages are discussed along with the notion of programming paradigms and the need for combining both paradigms and languages to best solve problems.

    Dean Wampler on Programming Languages
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    57:20
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