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Episode 36: Interview Guy Steele

Episode 36: Interview Guy Steele

Software Engineering Radio - The Podcast for Professional Software Developers vor 19 Jahren

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This episode is an interview with Guy L. Steele Jr.. Guy is a Sun
Fellow and heads the Programming Language Research Group within
Sun, and a generally well known "programming language guy" (see
here for details). We briefly talk about Lisp and the resurgence of
dynamic languages before we delve into the main topic, the Fortress
programming language he is working on. Fortress is a language
intended to replace Fortran as a scientific computing language. We
talk about how mathematical notations, syntax extensio and built-in
support for parallelism are crucial properties of such a language.
We then briefly talk about potentials for compiler optimization
before taking a closer look at the type system (static typing, type
inference), traits and contract specification as well as
first-class support for hierarchical components. We conclude the
discussion with a look at automatic partitioning and distribuion of
concurrent algorithms and a brief look at the future roadmap for
the Fortress language.