How the Ancient Greeks Invented Programming
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Matt Butcher is a Developer Experience Engineer at HP Cloud. He is the author of seven technology books and numerous articles on topics including Java, JavaScript, and PHP development as well as LDAP. An advocate of Open Source, he maintains or contributes to numerous projects. And, yes, he’s a real, live philosopher, too.
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Faisal Waris
As the presenter suggests, my introduction to programming and philosophy was through Douglas Hofstadter. I however did not go further than reading some introductory books in philosophy.
Another interesting book in the same vein is Digital Mantras - The Language of Abstract and Virtual Worlds, by Steve Holtzman.
I would like to say that language should not only support both OO and functional paradigms but also have meta-programming - to parallel the notion of metaphysics. However closing the loop in this way makes things a bit messy. Now your 'object' world can access the 'meta' world and the clean division between meta and object is lost. As Douglas Hofstadter points out Gödel's famous incompleteness proof is based on this idea.
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Praveena Manvi
Scala is truly secular supporting/negating both religions OO and FP.
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