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Visi: Cultured & Distributed

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Summary

David Pollak discuss the strategic goals for Visi – a language for spreadsheets - and how this language and its environment can create cultural structures designed to grow its community.

Bio

David Pollak founded Visi.Pro, cloud computing for the Rest of Us along with the Visi Language open source project. David founded the Lift Web Framework and continuously contributes to Lift. David wrote Beginning Scala and ran the first Scala-focused conferences. In the past, David wrote software for NextStep including Mesa, the world’s first real-time spreadsheet. Twitter: @dpp

About the conference

As new problems in computing arise, new languages are being created to help tackle those problems. We want to bring together programming language creators, researchers, and enthusiasts to share goals, experiences, and challenges. Our goal is advancing the state of the art in programming language design and implementation.

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Nov 30, 2012

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