I should hope so.
This was the afternoon’s first major talk. David Ungar from IBM Research first demonstrated that the tragedy of Romeo & Juliet comes from a race condition (if only he had waited for news from the Friar).
That was excellent, but the real premise of his talk …
read moreI think when people saw that Dart was from Gilad Bracha and Lars Bak there was an expectation that Dart was going to be a grand synthesis: a blazingly-fast NewSpeak-with-curly-brackets. It’s very much not such a language. It doesn’t seem, academically, vastly innovative because it doesn’t add …
read moreTaking my own 15 Exercises to Know A Programming Language as a starting point for my exploration of Scala...
The first set of exercises are right up the alley of a language with pattern-matching and list-processing:
read moreWrite a program that takes as its first argument one of the words ‘sum …
Goldilocks: A race-aware Java runtime - Microsoft Research.
This one's been in my backlog to post about for awhile. Not only is it interesting as a concept, I find it also interesting that it's a Java runtime and not based on the CLR. Technical reason or just researcher interest?
read moreIt sounds like someone designed a programming language with the express intention of intriguing me:
read moreFunLoft is an experimental language for concurrent programming, designed with the following objectives:
- make concurrent programming simpler by providing a framework with a clear and sound semantics.
- provide a safe language, in which, for example …
Entropy always increases: Visualising sorting algorithms.
Lovely way of visualizing sorting. I especially like the visualization of the "divide and conquer" algorithm:
If you are interested in high-performance programming on Windows, you know the name Joe Duffy, whose book Concurrent Programming On Windows is absolutely top-notch.
Today he posted an intriguing notice on his blog "We are hiring." Check out some of the things he says:
read moreMy team's responsibility spans multiple aspects …
Apropos of something I'm not quite ready to talk about, here is an interesting challenge:
How do you optimize your time at the telescope if you have a set of objects that you'd like to observe?
For instance, if you want to see as many Messier objects as you can …
read moreI wish I had time to investigate Accelerator v2, a managed interface for General-Purpose GPU and x64 multicore data-parallel programming. Fun!
Satnam Singh's MSDN Blog : GPGPU and x64 Multicore Programming with Accelerator from F#.
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