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Onward! — Does Thought Crime Pay?

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Summary

Gilad Bracha ponders how Lisp, Simula, Actors, Beta, Smalltalk and Self give us C++, Java, Javascript, Perl, Python and PHP, speculating what new wonders await programmers down the road.

Bio

Gilad Bracha is the creator of the Newspeak programming language and a software engineer at Google. He was a VP at SAP Labs, a Distinguished Engineer at Cadence, he worked on Strongtalk, the Animorphic Smalltalk System, and he was a Computational Theologist and Distinguished Engineer at Sun. He is co-author of the Java Language Specification, and a researcher in the area of OOP.

About the conference

SPLASH is home to OOPSLA, Onward! and DLS. OOPSLA is the forum for many important software developments of the last few decades: CRC cards, CLOS, design patterns, Agile, SOA, Wikis, UML, TDD, refactoring, Java, and Aspects. Onward! is about programming and software: processes, methods, languages, communities, and applications. DLS addresses dynamic languages: their implementation and application.

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Mar 02, 2014

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