TEXT-BASED
SYSTEMS
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“WHY IS THE CANONICAL
REPRESENTATION OF
CODE A STRING?”
Paul Phillips @ Pacific Northwest Scala Conference
https:/
/www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS1lpKBMkgg
“PROGRAMMING
LANGUAGES ARE THE
WAY PROGRAMMERS
THINK ABOUT WRITING
PROGRAMS”
Barbara Liskov
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TRANSFORMATION
PROGRAMMING
AS:
DATA
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UNOBSERVABLE
INDIRECT
INCIDENTALLY COMPLEX
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VISUAL
INTERACTIVE
SIMPLE
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1960s
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DATAFLOW
PROGRAMMING
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DECLARATIVE
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CONCURRENT
BY DEFAULT
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ADD
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ADD
40
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ADD
40
2
42
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DATAFLOW
+
FUNCTIONAL
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UNITS ARE THE ONLY PRIMITIVE
(GENERALLY) PURE
STATICALLY TYPED WIRES
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COMPOSITION?
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ADD DOUBLE
INT
INT
INT INT INT
2 | 1 1 | 1
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ADD THEN
DOUBLE
INT
INT
INT
2 | 1
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REUSABILITY?
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FUNCTOR
UNITS
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ADD THEN
DOUBLE
INT
INT
INT
FMAP
MAYBE INT
MAYBE INT
MAYBE INT
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WHY ARE WE
NOT THERE YET?
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“THE PRESENT IS THE
LEAST IMPORTANT TIME
WE LIVE IN”
Alan Kay
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“THE PRESENT IS
ALWAYS A SUBOPTIMAL
OUTCOME OF THE PAST”
Me
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TECHNICAL
NOVELTY
VS
WIDE
ADOPTION
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“WE SHOULDN’T HAVE MADE THE WHOLE GO EXPERIENCE
SO GOOD, SO COMFORTABLE. WHAT WE SHOULD HAVE
DONE IS LET THE WORLD SUFFER WITH C UNTIL THE PAIN
WAS SO UNBEARABLE THAT PROGRAMMERS WOULD
HAVE COME UP WITH SOMETHING RADICALLY BETTER.
BE WARY OF LOCAL MAXIMA.”
Shyu Shihong, Google CEO @ Google IO 2061
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“I CURSE THE DAY WHEN SOFTWARE TURNED
ITS BACK ON COMPUTER SCIENCE, BECAUSE
FROM THAT DAY WE FOCUSED ON JUST
FINDING BETTER ANSWERS, INSTEAD OF
ASKING BETTER QUESTIONS.”
Leng Bohai, Renaissance Project Lead