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Simon Peyton Jones on Programming Languages and Research Work

Topics
Java,
Design,
.NET,
Language Design,
Programming,
Architecture

In this QCon London 2008 interview, computer scientist and researcher Simon Peyton Jones discusses properties of functional programming languages, and particularly Haskell, that have inspired some features in mainstream languages. He gives his opinion on the issues of syntax and language complexity and talks about some research work on subjects such as Data parallelism and transactional memory.