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  • very informative

  • You can learn lots of things by watching videos like this.

  • Summary:

    JIT compilation in Virtual Machines will mean that your Dynamic Code can crash faster.

  • ...right?

    WRONG

  • Great talk. Anybody got a reference to the Adobe paper mentioned at the end? I really think fencing blocks of dynamic code with static contracts is the best of both worlds. I'm guessing it's about ActionScript.

  • @seddona the adobe paper is "Evolutionary Programming and Gradual Typing in ECMAScript 4" by Lars Hansen.

  • Wow, wow - great lecturers at this school. Thanks for the upload!

  • could not have asked for a more stereotypical audience lol. Good chat btw.

  • This is a great talk for someone trying to figure out which language to start learning programming with. In 106A at Stanford (all 28 lectures on YouTube) they start with Java, which is pretty intense for a first 9 week course in programming. In the next 9 week course they start on C++. That's nuts! But that's Stanford, where people pay 10s of thousands of dollars in tuition each. So a fast track makes sense.

  • (cont.) If you are learning on your own, try Ruby on SciTE the text editor in the Ruby download.  SciTE works with Ruby and Perl right off the bat with those compilers installed (you install). SciTE works with Python if you install an API.

    While all of the languages might have adaptations (modules) for many other languages, as the speaker infers, all roads lead to C++.

    On your road to C++ you might try learning Perl, since most C++ methods are in Perl also. And Perl immediately useful.

  • This was an intresting talk..anyway in my opinion dynamic languages are good in ceartain cases

  • This man is my hero

  • I think this was a really good talk. Really interesting. There's just one thing I think the speaker could work on; I started noticing every time he said "right?" like after almost every statement he made, and this started really distracting me.

  • @kodafox: True. Saying "right?" after each sentence is a growing trend, unfortunately. I get distracted by it too. Not worse than "um..." but still. Anyway that annoyance was counter-balanced by the quality of the talk.

  • @kodafox You're being too nitpicky. He carefully intermixed "right?"s with "hmmkay?"s for our listening pleasure! :P

    Great talk, though =)

  • I really like the passion in this talk.

  • ... he is talking too much about his own taste, in my opinion.

    No wonder he got no job at IBM ;-)

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