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Does anyone know if they recorded this as well? I've heard the Q&A session was also quite good.
I found this fascinating. Does anyone have any knowledge of any other programming languages/environments that focus on time in a way comparable to that suggested in the presentation?
Brilliant use of ANW's "Process and Reality" (considered by many as a meta-physical text) providing philosophical mappings to Clojure's approach of state, time etc.
I found this fascinating. Does anyone have any knowledge of any other programming languages/environments that focus on time in a way comparable to that suggested in the presentation?
I just wish all the good things were a little bit more memory efficient. Maybe we're getting there eventually...
"All of the Clojure collections are immutable and persistent. In particular, the Clojure collections support efficient creation of 'modified' versions, by utilizing structural sharing, and make all of their performance bound guarantees for persistent use." http://clojure.org/data_structures
What this does to cache locality, I do not know.
I think the key to Rich's ideas is to realise them on non-volatile storage. This could revolutionise filesystems and databases.
It needs some deep thinking and slow and careful reading to understand all the implications (most students rush through these sections imo), but it provides a good foundation to understand what Rich's talking about.