Coincidentally, just the other day a video of Guy Steele's keynote "Growing a Language" <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahvzDzKdB0> (from OOPSLA'98) made the rounds online, and while watching it I found myself noticing close parallels between the core message of his talk and the main design decisions that made Julia stand out from other languages. I'll be eagerly awaiting to watch his JuliaCon keynote!
By the way, the video skips a couple seconds every now and then, so it might be useful to refer to the text (pdf) <http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/steele.pdf> of the talk. On Saturday, April 9, 2016 at 8:37:18 PM UTC+1, Eric Davies wrote: > > Holy s**t! I'm very excited! > > On Friday, 8 April 2016 20:43:09 UTC-5, Andreas Noack wrote: >> >> JuliaCon 2016 >> June 21 - 25, 2016 >> Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. >> http://juliacon.org/ >> >> On behalf of the JuliaCon 2016 committee, I am happy to announce the >> following keynote speakers: >> >> *Timothy E. Holy, Thomas J. Sargent, *and* Guy L. Steele Jr.* >> >> *Timothy E. Holy* is Associate Professor of Neuroscience at Washington >> University in St. Louis. In 2009 he received the NIH Director’s Pioneer >> award for innovations in optics and microscopy. His research interests >> include imaging of neuronal activity and his lab was probably one of the >> first to adopt Julia for scientific research. He is a long time Julia >> contributor and a lead developer of Julia’s multidimensional array >> capabilities as well as the author of far too many Julia packages. >> >> *Thomas J. Sargent* is Professor of Economics at New York University and >> Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. In 2011 the Royal Swedish >> Academy of Sciences awarded him the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic >> Sciences for his work on macroeconomics. Together with John Stachurski he >> founded quant-econ.net, a Julia and Python based learning platform for >> quantitative economics focusing on algorithms and numerical methods for >> studying economic problems as well as coding skills. >> >> *Guy L. Steele Jr.* is a Software Architect for Oracle Labs and >> Principal Investigator of the Programming Language Research project. The >> Association for Computing Machinery awarded him the 1988 Grace Murray >> Hopper award. He has co-designed the programming language Scheme, which has >> greatly influenced the design of Julia, as well as languages such as >> Fortress and Java. >> >> Andreas Noack >> JuliaCon 2016 Local Chair >> Postdoctoral Associate >> Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory >> Massachusetts Institute of Technology >> >
