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Evolving the Key/Value Programming Model to a Higher Level

Billy Newport discusses the ways that developers interact with key/value stores, entity vs column-oriented approaches, sync vs async operations, large data sets, and collocating closures and data.

Billy Newport
on Jan 19, 2010

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Persistent Data Structures and Managed References

Rich Hickey talks on identity, state and values. He explains how to represent composite objects as values and how to deal with change and state, as it is implemented in Clojure.

Rich Hickey
on Oct 01, 2009

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55:53
The Evolution of Lisp

Guy L. Steele Jr. and Richard P. Gabriel reenact their presentation called “The Evolution of Lisp” which took place during ACM History of Languages Conference in 1993.

Richard Gabriel Guy Steele
on Apr 03, 2009

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42:42
Ruby.rewrite(Ruby)

In this RubyFringe talk, Reginald Braithwaite writes Ruby code to read, write, and rewrite Ruby. Demos include extending Ruby with conditional expressions, call-by-name and more.

Reginald Braihwaite
on Dec 04, 2008

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27:57
Fast Bytecodes for Funny Languages

Cliff Click discusses how to optimize generated bytecode for running on the JVM. Click analyzes and reports on several JVM languages and shows several places where they could increase performance.

Cliff Click
on Dec 02, 2008

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33:46
Clojure

Rich Hickey discusses Clojure features and syntax, example code, functional programming, concurrency semantics, transactions, software transactional memory, agents, implementation and pain points.

Rich Hickey
on Nov 20, 2008

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29:48
How The JVM Spec Came To Be

James Gosling discusses Java's creation, how users use a product in very unusual ways, Java as a compromise between C and scripting languages, the Java object model, primitives and optimization tricks

James Gosling
on Oct 29, 2008

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