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Sylvan Clebsch on the Actor-Model Language Pony, Garbage Collection, Capabilities, Concurrency
Sylvan Clebsch introduces Pony, a language built on the actor model which combines new approaches to garbage collection and concepts like capabilities to write high performance, concurrent code.
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John Nolan on the State of Hardware Acceleration with GPUs/FPGAs, Parallel Algorithm Design
John Nolan shows the state of hardware acceleration with GPUs and FPGAs, why it's hard to write efficient code for them, and why to favor polymorphism over if statements for performance.
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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.
