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Simon is without doubt, a damn hero in today's world.  The most privileged I would ever become would be to have a job as his pupil or peer in Microsoft Research to help succeed in the important stuff like bringing true computer science back and paving the way for one path to our modern world's programming language Nirvana.

It's always nice to hear from Simon, thanks for the interview Charles.

@Richard.Hein: Thats a damn good paper, I had no idea my idea/term is spreading and is helping to make research progress in ways I hadn't known Thanks for linking that paper, I'd definitely suggest that sort of solution for your hash table not by bias but by such impressive results they got.

Good luck with coding a prototype for your product.

Quite a delightful fellow, he would be a great mentor for many these days.  I wonder if he would like my conceptual solution for parallelizing sequential computation.

http://toxprox.tumblr.com/post/184172056/the-many-core-answer-relativistic-computation

It uses pipelining in a vectorized form relative to other pipelines in the system, and is a just-above abstraction above instruction level parallelism.  There's a diagram for people to enjoy too What do people think?

It's terrible news to hear that F# is being used so little/not at all in Roslyn

C'mon Anders, sure C# is your baby but it sounds like you aren't leveraging F#'s amazing aspects for making a project like this. By just embracing some native F# a little more and merging their IL together would be a beauty. Then aspects of the TRUE next generation of code generators should show themselves via your team's findings.

Who say's you can't create C#'s successor language instead of just dwelling on C# so much?

http://techluminaries.com/2008/12/15/episode-1-brendan-eich/ Is another interview with Brendon which I consider one of his best, he is inspirational in this podcast I linked and if anyone wants a REALLY good listen I highly suggest it with a 10/10 rating. (Sorry Charles it's even better than this ATM and I'd even suggest you have a listen ) Enjoy and I even wished I was hired by Mozilla/Microsoft to do some goodness like what he's done for our modern world.  

Here's to hoping strict mode is supported in the final incarnations of WinRT!

I love the WinRT stuff, should be able to embed a DirectX game right inside an HTML element and boom.  I hope the DX guys make a similar surface API to get an equivalent for WebGL for GPU computation tasks/graphics embedded in web pages.

Nice render tree! Please take notes from XSI (Autodesk Softimage) render tree editor since it is the king of Shader "tree" editors in my eye.

All this C++ content is good stuff Charles, it seemed like such a desirable conference to go to, I'm slightly envious:P.

@Charles:Oh yea the bubbles, any matrix-like power surges along the geometry is all cool so long as its mainly stationary; that wobble on there right now is just funky and distracting. I guess a super slow change of angle 1/5th - 1/10th that speed wouldn't be too bad, but atm that wobble is a little too fast.

Remove the wobbly sea-sickness background and it'll be the 2nd best show on C9 right behind "Going Deep" that's how much potential this should have.  But the intro background animation is amazingly horrible even though I don't get sea-sickness but If it's on other shows... I already pity the viewers.

Also the only thing able to match this in awesomeness is C9::Functional ; a show focusing all about functional concepts and best practices and functional styles beyond syntax and how to do functional work in imperative languages and functional data structures. This way the complete contrast can be covered and can help all 9'ers grow as true programmers and not just a C++, JavaScript, Ruby, Erlang, C#, F#, Java or Haskell dev.