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  • Rich Hickey on Protocols and Clojure 1.3

    Rich Hickey explains the ideas behind Clojure 1.2's new polymorphism constructs deftype and protocols. Also: Clojure 1.3 features such as faster arithmetic and future features like Pods.

    Rich Hickey on Protocols and Clojure 1.3
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    16:43
  • Kresten Krab Thorup, Robert Virding Discuss the Erlang VM

    Kresten Krab Thorup and Robert Virding discuss the origins of Erlang, the state of the Erlang VM, integrating native code with Erlang etc. Also: the challenges of running Erjang/Erlang on the JVM.

    Kresten Krab Thorup, Robert Virding Discuss the Erlang VM
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    56:05
  • Kresten Krab Thorup on Erjang, JVM Languages, Kilim

    Kresten Krab Thorup talks about the Erjang project and explains the challenges of bringing Erlang to the JVM, using Kilim for lightweight processes, the implementation of tail recursion and much more.

    Kresten Krab Thorup on Erjang, JVM Languages, Kilim
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    31:02
  • 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
  • Doug Lea Discusses the Fork/Join Framework

    Doug Lea talks to InfoQ about the evolution of the Fork/Join Framework, the new features planned for java.util.concurrent in Java 7, and the "Extra 166" package. The interview goes on to explore some of the hardware and language changes that are impacting concurrent programming, and the effect the increasing prevalence of alternative languages in the JVM are having on library design.

    Doug Lea Discusses the Fork/Join Framework
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    23:45
  • Joe Armstrong About Erlang

    In this interview filmed during QCon London 2008, Joe Armstrong, designer of Erlang, speaks on various aspects of the Erlang language, presenting its roots, how it compares with other languages and why it has become popular these days due to its native ability to scale on multi core systems.

    Joe Armstrong About Erlang
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    32:06
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