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Anders Hejlsberg and Guy Steele: Concurrency and Language Design

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This is the second year I've been lucky enough to take part in the cross-platform software engineering conference JAOO. Like last year, I was very fortunate to get to sit down with a few key players in the programming languages design field and watch several technical presentations that span the industry and problems we face as software developers. One of the truly great things about JAOO is that it is not a product-focused conference: it's about programming first and foremost and enables the sharing of perspectives and ideas among the world's best and brightest programming minds. As you can imagine, I, like many technical types here at Microsoft, am a huge fan of JAOO. Thank you Trifork!!!

In this conversation Microsoft Technical Fellow and Chief Architect of C# Anders Hejlsberg sits down with programming language design legend and computer scientist Guy Steele (creator of Scheme and expert in several languages ranging from LISP to Java). I think Guy is one of the smartest people I've ever met.

The topic of conversation is the elephant in the modern general purpose programmer's living room: Concurrency. With today's widely-used general purpose languages like C++, Java, C#, VB, Ruby etc it's hard to express parallelism in productive ways. Anders et al are working on both language enhancements to C# and VB.NET and BCL support (Parallel Extensions to .NET for example). Today, Guy is working on a mathematical language (domain specific as opposed to general purpose) and runtime, Fortress, that is so concurrent it makes it hard for programmers to even write sequential code!

Listen in to two of the programming industry's most successful thinkers and get a sense of their perspectives on the future of general purpose programming languages now that Concurrency and Parallelism are entering the development status quo.

Enjoy. More JAOO coverage to come. You can watch Anders' keynote on language futures here.

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  • Vesuviusvesuvius Count Orlock
    October seems set to be a month where my download manager is abused by Channel 9, starting with JAOO and ending up at PDC.

    What a way to begin!
  • CharlesCharles Welcome Change
    Smiley

    Keep on downloading,
    C
  • ChadkChadk excuse me - do you has a flavor?
    Awesome, Jaoo content! Big Smile

    I'm wondering about their titles. What lies behind "Technical fellow"? I thought that was a joke.
  • CharlesCharles Welcome Change

    Technical Fellow at Microsoft is the highest ranking engineering title. In essence, Anders is as senior as a VP. Think of it as "Grand Master Engineer" Smiley

    BTW, it was great seeing you at JAOO Charlie.
    C

  • Jason OlsonJasonOlson
    Charles, you rule like usual. I can't WAIT to watch this video. JAOO and OOPSLA are two of the conferences I'm determined to make it to some time. I love anytime these videos start coming out Smiley.
  • Tom Kirby-Greentomkirbygre​en

    Awesome! Can't get enough of the videos featuring Anders, they're always thought provoking and insightful and right now are the perfect distraction from grim market news stories.

  • stevo_stevo_ Human after all
    Great video.
  • LarryOstermanLarry​Osterman
    OH WOW!  IT'S GLS!!!

    Guy Steele was my comparative languages professor back at CMU, he was hands down one of the best teachers I've ever had.

    The man's simply amazing.
  • Tom Kirby-Greentomkirbygre​en
    Without a doubt it's very exciting to focus on the end goal of shiny new languages and functionally 'pure' (or at least side-effect annotated) frameworks but over the next 5 years I'd really like to see Microsoft et al spend some of their community education budget on giving direction as to how we should transition our existing deeply object-orientated architectures to prepare for all this. How do we find that sweet spot of being more explicit about mutation without totally giving up on encapsulation. Should we start annotating mutations? Surely Microsoft should provide those annotation definitions so we can use a common standard. Will we get short term tool / framework / runtime changes to support the transition and not just the rewrite scenario.

    Don't get me wrong, I'm not being anti-change here, but any pitch to management about adopting this stuff needs to include a technically strong discussion of how architectures can be changed over time in such a way that they don't immediately and severely impinge on developer productivity. There is clearly more to the problem than just 'pepper your code with LINQ query statements' (I'm being deliberately provocative, not as an attempt to troll but because I think this part of the story is currently missing.)
  • Vesuviusvesuvius Count Orlock
    What a completely illuminating and edifying interview. I can say with certainty that I will watch this again and again and again.
  • Parag Mehtaiparag iParag.com
    Great Discussion. I tend to think the more functional stuff added to C#(Anders seems to suggest that!), the more polluted it's going to be. C# shouldn't be answers to all the problems, it's about time they don't try to make it that way!

    No matter how much functional programming is useful, current languages will still be alive and kicking!
  • CharlesCharles Welcome Change
    Great points. In fact, this is exactly what we are doing with Parallel Extensions for .NET and language/runtime changes in our stack. As Anders states in the video we don't expect developers to throw away their current toolset. Instead, we'll add new constructs to the existing tools to make writing concurrent code productive and effective. Of course, a fair amount of magic needs to happen to pull this off and Anders et al are working very hard at it!

    C
  • Vesuviusvesuvius Count Orlock
    I thought both seemed to extol F# and pretty much say "if you want functional, then that (F#) is what you want to use".

    The appeal of functional programming to Anders (it seems) is when it comes to parallelize your code. The task parallel library is already working on a parallel for-loop. The next logical step in code, is any method where a time consuming task is present (work need to be done) like your lambdas. I think that that is why Anders extols functional programming, insofar as "the elephant in the room" and functional programming being used as a tool in concurrency issues.

    I therefore see C# developing as a hybrid language or creating a hybrid developer, whereby if any parallel tasks need to be done, the best practice in your application is to use functional constructs, as they can be made to run in parallel. Learning F# is going to be the best way for .NET developers to leverage their existing .NET knowledge, without resorting to the extremes and complexity of Haskell.
  • Anne Therese HansenAnneDK
    If you would like to see more videos with Anders Hejlsberg you can find a video of his JAOO keynote at the JAOO Community Blog. The blog also features an interview with Anders Hejlsberg.
  • Christian Liensbergerlittleguru <3 Seattle
    Awesome awesome content! Thanks for doing this Charles!
  • Elmerelmer I'm on my very last life.

    I walked away from the video while it was running, and was suddenly struck by Guy Steel's voice... Carl Sagan talking computers.

    ...LOL.

  • rbirkbyrbirkby
    Anders used to be a Distinguished Engineer. But I think they changed the title to Technical Fellow when one of the Distinguished Engineers had a chair thrown at him.
  • Daniel Earwickerdanielearwi​cker I used to be language agnostic, now I'm language atheist
    That point about a base language that can support different syntaxes though library-like extensions - surely that has to be the way to go, in the long term?

    We already have an ever-growing range of APIs in the CLR to let us dynamically compile code snippets into executables. The C# and VB compilers are "libraries" in that sense. They need to be reusable in different contexts, e.g. partial compilation for IDE intellisense as well as the "real" compilation process. And so why not implement those two languages as AST processors on the same general compilation engine. And then introduce a way to let you switch syntax libraries in the middle of a file, or in an expression.
  • kasajiankasajian
    Assuming that someone writes software that super-concurrent, is there a way to verify that that is the case without actually trying it on a multi-processor computer?

    For instance, let's say that I have a quad core computer, and I write software that scales amazingly to 4 threads.  However, my intent was to actually scale to 8 or 16 or 32 threads, but I don't have the machine to test it.

    Is there some kind of execution path analysis tool (perhaps Intel can help with this), which analyzes the binary code (or may be source) and says, "yes, your code scales to 256 threads, with the following data set, but no more than that"

    Is there any research done in this area that anyone knows about?

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