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The Mapping Dilemma

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Summary

David Nolen critiques the tools, languages and methodologies used today from the perspective of solving the “mapping dilemma”, introducing match, a pattern matching library for Clojure.

Bio

David Nolen is a JavaScript developer at The New York Times. He is the main developer of the Clojure Contrib library core.logic, a Prolog-like logic engine, and match, an optimizing pattern match compiler. He loves hacking at the intersection between object oriented, functional, and logic programming paradigms.

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Strange Loop is a multi-disciplinary conference that aims to bring together the developers and thinkers building tomorrow's technology in fields such as emerging languages, alternative databases, concurrency, distributed systems, mobile development, and the web.

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Dec 15, 2011

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