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C - The Revolution In Systems Programming

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July 17, 2014
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C - The Revolution In Systems Programming

A major troll talk given at the Strange Group meetup in Berlin.

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July 17, 2014
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Transcript

  1. C THE REVOLUTION IN SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING

  2. IMPERATIVE

  3. http://intellify.me/2011/10/13/3020/

  4. None

  5. FAMILIAR

  6. MINIMAL

  7. None

  8. MODULAR

  9. simple, clean module system

  10. PRACTICAL

  11. type inference for literals no need to annotate with ::

    String or :: int!!!

  12. EXPRESSIVE

  13. None

  14. unsafe

  15. None

  16. -some enterprise software analyst about Java “If it compiles, it

    probably works.”

  17. -me “If you could type it, it probably compiles.”

  18. RUN-TIME POLYMORPHISM

  19. None
  20. None

  21. CONCURRENCY

  22. None

  23. EFFICIENT MEMORY MANAGEMENT

  24. None

  25. FAST

  26. None

  27. https://www.flickr.com/photos/panshun/4859528362/

  28. VIBRANT COMMUNITY

  29. Linux GNU Apache Ruby Python nginx mysql postgresql Redis VMWare

    OpenSSL

  30. WHAT IT DOESN’T HAVE, it doesn’t need

  31. FAST

  32. FAST

  33. FAST

  34. C THE REVOLUTION IN SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING txustice txus THANKS!