Posts with keyword: functional+programming

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Fran Allen: Compilers and Parallel Computing Systems

Thu Feb 21 16:55:00 2008

Fran Allen delivers Organick Lecture(click to enlarge) Fran Allen was the Turing Award winner for 2006. This afternoon she's giving the University of Utah's Organick Memorial Lecture. I've reported on some of these in the past few years: Jim Gray on Distributed Computing Economics Vint Cerf on Internet Challenges Alan Kay: Is Computer Science an Oxymoron? Alan Kay: The 100 Dollar Laptop and Powerful Ideas Jeannette Wing on Computational Thinking I try to come every year. I find it's something I'm inspired by each time. The grand goal of high performance computers right now is a 1 petaflop machine.
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Composition as a Programming Activity

Thu Dec 21 09:50:00 2006

When I started programming, you had four choices on the IBM 370 system that the University of Idaho made available to students: Cobol, Fortran, Basic, and APL. I learned Fortran and Basic, avoided Cobol because it was for "business", and looked on APL with wide-eyed wonder. "Someday," I thought, "when I'm all grown up, I'll learn APL." Well, of course, that day never came (I never grew up and I never learned APL). I'd kind of thought APL was dead--after all, you don't hear about it much. People refer, jokingly, to APL as a "write-only" language because it's very
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