O'Reilly OSCON Java 2011: Martin Odersky, "Working Hard to Keep It Simple"

Today's world of parallel and distributed computing poses hard new challenges for software development. A rapidly increasing number of developers now have to deal with races, deadlocks, non-determinism, and we are ill-equipped to do so. How can we keep things simple, in spite of the complexity of the underlying runtimes?

In my keynote I present some of the core technology that was developed in Scala to deal with the parallelism challenge: Parallel collections, actors, and parallel domain-specific languages. They have in common that each involves a sophisticated implementation, yet provides a simple, intuitive toolkit to the developer.

Martin Odersky

Typesafe

Martin Odersky is the inventor of the Scala language, a professor at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, and Chairman and Chief Architect of Typesafe. His work concentrates on the fusion of functional and object-oriented programming. He believes the two paradigms are two sides of the same coin, to be unified as much as possible. To prove this, he has worked on a number of language designs, from Pizza to GJ to Functional Nets. He has also influenced the development of Java as a co-designer of Java generics and as the original author of the current javac reference compiler.

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Coursera, Thumbs up!

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13:34 "... and the it sends minors to Facebook and adults to LinkedIn".

[mystaura]

Functional Programming Principles in Scala

[nxhoaf]

Could you please send me the cours name ?

[Nitesh Chauhan]

awesomeness :)

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Also from coursera. Thumbs up!

[Jar1412]

Cousera sent me here :-)

[darkbit1001]

I did some of my most critical programming as a minor (in C and C++ of course)... Do you mind sharing your framework on GitHub or something? Perhaps an old adult like me can learn from it!

[Ilan Godik]

Hmm... I'm a minor XD

And I learned and control half of it in half a week :)

And also made an handy,consice assertion framework on the third day after starting to learn scala :)

I'm special :)

[Juan Gomez]

Scala, AKKA, parallel embedded DSLs. This top science is what separates minors from adults.

[proyb2]

For performance reason and Oracle and IBM have close collaboration on improving JVM. Not many people know it.