I recommend to read as well "Reflections on Scala Days 2012" by Erik Bakker: http://www.lunatech-research.com/archives/2012/04/20/reflections-scala-days-2012
Note that there were 4 parallel sessions, so the picture is still far from complete. Martin Odersky built Sun's Java compiler javac, version 1.3; thereafter he created Scala. Martin has gathered other excellent compiler specialists in Lausanne, such as Paul Phillips and Eugene Burmako. They are now finishing project Kepler = compile-time metaprogramming = support for macro's; this yields the power of DotNet's Linq. WRT ACP: I was very happy to see and hear that Eugene plans to take "my" DSL for the Algebra of Communicating Processes as a use case for the macro's. (see sheet 14 of http://www.slideshare.net/jamesskillsmatter/project-kepler-compile-time-metaprogramming-for-scala). IMO ACP is a kind of Maxwell theory of processes. It has extensions for time, space and money. See: Real time process algebra http://alexandria.tue.nl/repository/freearticles/589158.pdf Real space process algebra http://alexandria.tue.nl/repository/books/588986.pdf Parallel Processes with Implicit Computational Capital http://alexandria.tue.nl/extra1/wskrap/publichtml/200635.pdf Efficient Production Process Algebra http://www.is-frankfurt.de/uploads/efficient_algebra.pdf Op 20 apr. 2012, om 21:38 heeft John Nilsson het volgende geschreven: > Thanks for summary. I've been looking forward to see what's happening in the > Scala world. > > Btw. For the lurkers of this list who hasn't checked out Scala yet, do have > look. The parser combinators in the standard library is more or less an OMeta > implementation. Combined with Kojo for editing it should provide an > environment very much suited for experimenting with the ideas on this list. > > BR, > John > > Den 20 apr 2012 16:59 skrev "Andre van Delft" <andre.vande...@gmail.com>: > Indeed I missed the link to the video of the 12 year old Shadaj Laddad. > Here is it as yet: > http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/scala/making-games-and-solving-puzzles-in-scala > > Overview of the video's is here: > http://skillsmatter.com/event/scala/scala-days-2012 > Still many video's are not online. > > Anne Veling had a talk that got the most enthusiast tweets; it is not yet on > the list. > > Simon Peyton-Jones (Microsoft Research) started his keynote with the > manifesto for teaching computer science in the 21st century, that was > launched two weeks earlier in the UK. He said that current ICT education > comes down to teaching Microsoft Office. I have observed the same with my two > children, in the Netherlands. French and German attendees of Scala Days told > me that ICT education in their country is like that. > http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/itforschools > > > > On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 4:09 PM, John Nilsson <j...@milsson.nu> wrote: > I think one of the video links are wrong, should they both be the same? > BR, > John > > Den 20 apr 2012 01:57 skrev "Andre van Delft" <andre.vande...@gmail.com>: > Scala Days 2012 was held this week in London; 400 passionate developers; many > presentations on DSLs, parallelism, concurrency, FP, compiler technology and > much other stuff. http://days2012.scala-lang.org/ Enthusiastic tweets: > https://twitter.com/search/scaladays > > The keynotes were by Guy Steele, Simon Peyton-Jones, Anthony Rose > (http://zeebox.com/) and Martin Odersky; I warmly recommend these, but right > now the videos are not yet online. > > Twelve year old Shadaj Laddad had an awesome talk; he is a real good > programmer, and maybe even better teacher. The video is here: > http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/scala/subscript-extending-scala-with-the-algebra-of-communicating-processes > > I presented my language extension based on the Algebra of Communicating > Processes; I have mentioned this theory a couple of times here the Fonc list. > ACP may be viewed as extending Boolean Algebra with actions, and from there > parallelism and communication. With some syntactic sugar added, it has much > of the power of BNF, CCS, Linda, pipes in Unix command shell. Implementation > as a language extension turns out to be fairly easy. I think ACP deserves > much more attention than it currently gets; it might IMO become as important > as the object-oriented and functional paradigms. > > The video of my talk is here: > http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/scala/subscript-extending-scala-with-the-algebra-of-communicating-processes > The sheets and accompanying paper are at > http://code.google.com/p/subscript/downloads/list > > André >
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