Lang.NEXT 2012 is a cross-industry conference for programming language designers and implementers on the Microsoft Campus in Redmond, Washington. With three days of talks, panels and discussion on leading programming language work from industry and research, Lang.NEXT is the place to learn, share ideas and engage with fellow programming language design experts and enthusiasts. Native, functional, imperative, object oriented, static, dynamic, managed, interpreted... It's a programming language geek fest.
Learn more about Lang.NEXT from the event organizers:
We had a great cast of characters speaking at this event. Experts and inconoclasts included:
Andrei Alexandrescu, Facebook
Andrew Black, Portland State University
Andy Gordon, Microsoft Research and University of Edinburgh
Andy Moran, Galois
Bruce Payette, Microsoft
Donna Malayeri, Microsoft
Dustin Campbell, Microsoft
Erik Meijer, Microsoft
Gilad Bracha, Google
Herb Sutter, Microsoft
Jeff Bezanson, MIT
Jeroen Frijters, Sumatra Software
John Cook, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
John Rose, Oracle
Kim Bruce, Pomona College
Kunle Olukotun, Stanford
Luke Hoban, Microsoft
Mads Torgersen, Microsoft
Martin Odersky, EPFL, Typesafe
Martyn Lovell, Microsoft
Peter Alvaro, University of California at Berkeley
Robert Griesemer, Google
Stefan Karpinski, MIT
Walter Bright, Digital Mars
Sessions were recorded and C9 interviews took place!
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Lang.NEXT 2012 Expert Panel: Web and Cloud Programming (and more)- Peter Alvaro, Gilad Bracha, Anders Hejlsberg, Erik Meijer, Martin Odersky
- Day 1
- April 2, 2012 from 2:00PM to 3:20PM
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What happens when Anders Hejlsberg, Gilad Bracha, Martin Odersky, and Peter Alvaro get together for an interactive panel moderated by Erik Meijer?
Tune in.
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Herb Sutter: (Not Your Father’s) C++- Herb Sutter
- C++
- Day 3
- April 4, 2012 from 3:00PM to 3:40PM
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What makes ISO C++11 "feel like a new language"? What things that we know about past C++ do we need to unlearn? Why is C++ designed the way it is – historically, and in C++11? Finally, what is the difference between managed and native languages anyway, and when...
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Reverend Bayes, meet Countess Lovelace: Probabilistic Programming for Machine Learning- Andy Gordon
- Day 3
- April 4, 2012 from 11:00AM to 11:40AM
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We propose a marriage of probabilistic functional programming with Bayesian reasoning. Infer.NET Fun turns the simple succinct syntax of F# into an executable modeling language – you can code up the conditional probability distributions of Bayes' rule using F# array comprehensions with constraints....
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Language Support for Asynchronous ProgrammingAsynchronous programming is what the doctor usually orders for unresponsive client apps and for services with thread-scaling issues. This usually means a bleak departure from the imperative programming constructs we know and love into a spaghetti hell of callbacks and signups. C# and VB are putting an...
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John Cook: Why and How People Use RR is a strange, deeply flawed language that nevertheless has an enthusiastic and rapidly growing user base. What about R accounts for its popularity in its niche? What can language designers learn from R's success?
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Andrei Alexandrescu: Three Unlikely Successful Features of D- Andrei Alexandrescu
- D
- Day 3
- April 4, 2012 from 4:30PM to 5:15PM
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Designing a programming language has a strong subjective component.
There are features - such as type and property inference - that many would agree are useful, subject to proper language integration. But then there are features of which utility is not immediately obvious, and that could go either way...
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Martyn Lovell: The Windows Runtime- Martyn Lovell
- Day 2
- April 3, 2012 from 1:00PM to 1:40PM
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The Windows Runtime is Microsoft's new developer platform. It is designed from the ground up to give developers a wide range of choices, allowing apps to be authored in a broad range of languages—from C++ to JavaScript, as well as Visual Basic and C#. The Runtime also includes standard...
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IKVM.NET: Building a Java VM on the .NET Framework- Jeroen Frijters
- .NET, Java
- Day 1
- April 2, 2012 from 12:30PM to 1:45PM
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Java and .NET are like twins separated at birth, but what if you actually want to run your Java code on .NET? IKVM.NET aims to provide a full Java platform on top of the .NET Framework and in this talk we'll look at how this is accomplished and what the challenges are.
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Keynote - Martin Odersky: Reflection and Compilers- Martin Odersky
- Scala
- Day 1
- April 2, 2012 from 9:15AM to 10:30AM
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Reflection and compilers do tantalizing similar things. Yet, in mainstream, statically typed languages the two have been only loosely coupled, and generally share very little code. In this talk I explore what happens if one sets out to overcome their separation.
The first half of the talk addresses...
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A Means to Many Ends: 10+ Years of Haskell at Galois- Andrew Adams-Moran
- Haskell
- Day 1
- April 2, 2012 from 11:00AM to 11:40AM
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Galois started out using Haskell because it was our first love. This talk will be about why we *still* use it. Yes, we still love Haskell, but as the Beatles said, love don't pay the bills. I'll present some recent projects that show different aspects of our use of Haskell, giving a sense of what Haskell...
