PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE
THROUGH THE AGES
A REFLECTION OF THE GIANT’S SHOULDER
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THE SPEAKER
• Alex Xandra Albert Sim
• Principal Research and Development Engineer at blibli.com
• [email protected]
• bertzzie(.sim)
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AGENDA
• Why Language Matters
• How Language Influences One Another
• A Peek Into the Influencers
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EXPRESSION, THOUGHT, AND LANGUAGE
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HOW PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE INFLUENCES
ONE ANOTHER
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1. SYNTAX
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1. SYNTAX
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2. SEMANTIC
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2. SEMANTIC
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ON TYPE SYSTEMS AND SEMANTIC
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SMALLTALK INFLUENCE 1: OBJECT
• Everything is an object
• Object as an instance of class
• Isolation between each object
• Sending / receiving message as standard way to
communicate
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SMALLTALK INFLUENCE 2: PATTERNS
MVC is Smalltalk Invention!
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SMALLTALK INFLUENCE 3: HONORABLE TO MENTION
Self (a dialect): prototype-based OOP
(which means our beloved JS is influenced by it)
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SMALLTALK DEMO!
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SCHEME INFLUENCE 1: LAMBDA
• Lambda the Ultimate
• First-class function
• Closure
• Lexical Scope
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LISP INFLUENCE 2: HONORABLE TO MENTION
S-Expression
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ML INFLUENCE 1: SYNTAX
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ML INFLUENCE 2: TYPE SYSTEM
• Parametric Polymorphism
• Pattern-matching
• Perfect Static Scope (esp. OCaml)