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Are We There Yet?

Presented by Rich Hickey on Nov 12, 2009 Length 01:10:04     Download: MP3
Sections
Development
Topics
Architecture ,
Language ,
Java
Tags
Language Features ,
OOP ,
JVM Language Summit ,
Parallel Programming ,
Concurrency
 

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Summary
In his keynote at JVM Languages Summit 2009, Rich Hickey advocated for the reexamination of basic principles like state, identity, value, time, types, genericity, complexity, as they are used by OOP today, to be able to create the new constructs and languages to deal with the massive parallelism and concurrency of the future.

Bio
Rich Hickey, the author of Clojure, is an independent software designer, consultant and application architect with over 20 years of experience in all facets of software development.

About the conference
The 2009 JVM Language Summit is an open technical collaboration among language designers, compiler writers, tool builders, runtime engineers, and VM architects. The talks inform the audience, in detail, about the state of the art of language design and implementation on the JVM, and the present and future capabilities of the JVM itself.
Are We There Yet? by Justin Forder Posted
Re: Are We There Yet? by Derek Christman Posted
Re: Are We There Yet? by Tony Butterfield Posted
Excellent talk by Thomas Hildebrandt Posted
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    Are We There Yet?

    by Justin Forder

    Great talk! This is really, really important stuff.

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    Re: Are We There Yet?

    by Derek Christman

    Thanks Rich for voicing so clearly what has to be eating so many developers. Great food for thought, and hopefully change!

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    Re: Are We There Yet?

    by Tony Butterfield

    Great talk. I think you pinpoint the limitations of OO very well and provide some rich insights into how they can be addressed. To me real benefits of this approach is the avoidance of concurrency complexity and the ability to assert confidence on the correctness of operation.

    (Your reference to CAS had me confused for a while I was thinking "computer algebra system" rather than "compare and swap")

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    Excellent talk

    by Thomas Hildebrandt

    A very good talk!

    I support the message that we should start looking at immutable data, i.e. value-oriented programming - and that the oo of today is out of sync with the kind of hardware and it systems we want to implement. However, there is still some way to go from the idea of using value-oriented programming to the design of an alternative programming paradigm that can replace (or improve) oo...

    If someone are interested in seeing an (arguable more esoteric) use of value-oriented persistent tree data structure (XML) I wrote a paper a while ago on using a peer-to-peer value-oriented XML store as a distributed programming model. Of course it does not need to be distributed or peer-to-peer, the key point is to coordinate processes by their (atomic) updates (i.e. creation of new trees) to the XML store.

    The paper (Distributed Reactive XML - an XML-centric coordination middleware ) can be found here www1.itu.dk/sw31433.asp. I would love to transfer this idea to multi-core processors..

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