The Future of Code

A presentation given by Peter Cooper at WXG 2014 on September 26. Sadly the slides don't really work on their own.. :-(

2. The Future of Code Programming in 2024 with @peterc
3. Depending on your perspective, things don’t change.
4. http://codeazur.com.br/stuff/fc64_final/
5. 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 ! ! ! loop { print (9585.5+rand).to_i.chr }
7. - phantomfive on Slashdot “Pretty near every programming idea that you use daily was invented by the 80s.”
9. Bret Victor’s Future of Programming
10. Bret Victor’s Future of Programming
11. “Technology changes quickly, people’s minds don’t.”
12. - Giorgio Moroder “If you free your mind about the concept of harmony and music being correct you can do what you want so none told me what to do and there was no preconception of what to do.”
13. Bret Victor’s Future of Programming
15. What does everyone else think?
18. What I Think • The environment will change more than the code • Weird “formats” or representations of code • More end-users “programming” • “Software defined” everything • “Quantum” will become relevant (to more) • Intermediate data structures won’t matter • Crazy levels of optimization, AI-based profiling • CPU/GPU merger • More languages, more VMs • GIANT data and major data analysis
19. LightTable
20. Josh Marinacci’s Typographic Programming
21. IFTTT
22. Quipper • Quipper is a “scalable quantum language” • To calculate the 17th power of a quantum integer:
23. What do YOU think? ! YOU are the future of code.