Programming the Future

Given at JRubyConf Europe, Distill, code.talks and PolyConf, all in 2014.

Transcript

7. 1% 18% 82% Go JavaScript Bash
9. PROGRAMMING THE FUTURE
10. TXUS JOSEP M. BACH
11. PROGRAMMING IS FOR
12. PROGRAMMING IS FOR HUMANS
13. TEXT-BASED SYSTEMS https://www.flickr.com/photos/xenomurphy/8584275508
14. “WHY IS THE CANONICAL REPRESENTATION OF CODE A STRING?” Paul Phillips @ Pacific Northwest Scala Conference https:/ /www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS1lpKBMkgg
15. MENTAL TRANSLATION COST
16. DIRECT PROGRAMMING
17. FLAT REPRESENTATION OF CODE
19. LIVE REPRESENTATION
20. SLOW FEEDBACK LOOP
21. IMMEDIATE FEEDBACK LOOP
22. INTERACTIVITY
23. INTUITIVE LEARNING https://www.flickr.com/photos/drurydrama/2063103223/
24. MOMENTUM https://www.flickr.com/photos/aero_icarus/4591608703
25. VISUAL METAPHORS
26. http:/ /worrydream.com/MediaForThinkingTheUnthinkable/
27. “PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES ARE THE WAY PROGRAMMERS THINK ABOUT WRITING PROGRAMS” Barbara Liskov
28. TRANSFORMATION PROGRAMMING AS: DATA
29. UNOBSERVABLE INDIRECT INCIDENTALLY COMPLEX
30. VISUAL INTERACTIVE SIMPLE
31. 1960s
32. DATAFLOW PROGRAMMING
33. DECLARATIVE
34. CONCURRENT BY DEFAULT
35. ADD
36. ADD 40
37. ADD 40 2 42
38. DATAFLOW + FUNCTIONAL
39. UNITS ARE THE ONLY PRIMITIVE (GENERALLY) PURE STATICALLY TYPED WIRES
40. COMPOSITION?
41. ADD DOUBLE INT INT INT INT INT 2 | 1 1 | 1
42. ADD THEN DOUBLE INT INT INT 2 | 1
43. REUSABILITY?
44. FUNCTOR UNITS
45. ADD THEN DOUBLE INT INT INT FMAP MAYBE INT MAYBE INT MAYBE INT
46. WHY ARE WE NOT THERE YET?
47. “THE PRESENT IS THE LEAST IMPORTANT TIME WE LIVE IN” Alan Kay
48. “THE PRESENT IS ALWAYS A SUBOPTIMAL OUTCOME OF THE PAST” Me
49. TECHNICAL NOVELTY VS
 WIDE ADOPTION
50. “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
51. “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
52. THANK YOU
 FOR MAKING HISTORY. txustice txus