Hello Unix gurus!
vtfun meeting Thursday:
http://www.meetup.com/VTCode/events/159282972/
Last time at VTFun I gave a talk about John McCarthy and Algol60,
basically the beginnings of the Lisp, Scheme, Racket, etc. lineage of
programming languages (http://vimeo.com/77754412). I suggested 700
Languages at the end of my John McCarthy talk, and Eric Smith has picked
up the ball.
This week he is giving a talk tackling the origins of the other major
branch of the Algol60 lineage which we know today in ML, Haskell, F#,
Scala, etc. Eric is an excellent speaker. I would not recommend missing
one of his talks! Here is the promo:
"In the early 1960s, Peter Landin published a series of papers using the
lambda calculus to provide a semantic basis for programming languages.
In "The Next 700 Programming Languages" Landin introduced a number of
ideas that would become stock features of functional programming
languages decades later. In this talk, we are going to survey the paper
itself, as well as the ideas that are helping to shape the future of
programming 50 years later.
Date/Time: Thursday, January 30th 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Location: Perkins Hall, UVM
Eric Smith is Senior Vice President of Product Development at Middlebury
Interactive Languages. He has been programming for more than 30 years
and is interested in the history of computation and how new and old
ideas can be used to improve technology implementation."
--
Anthony Carrico
