At Lang.NEXT 2012, several conversations happened in the "social room", which was right next to the room where sessions took place. Our dear friend, Erik Meijer, led many interesting conversations, some of which we are fortunate enough to have caught on camera for C9. We'll begin with…
At GOTO Chicago Functional Programming Night, Erik Meijer and Rich Hickey sat down for a chat about the latest in Rich's programming language, Clojure, and also a had short discussion about one of Rich's latest projects, Datomic, a database written in Clojure. Always a pleasure to get a few titans…
Erik Meijer interviews .NET team PM Immo Landwerth and Software Developer Andrew Arnott. The topic is Immutable Collections, a new set of immutable types for .NET. You can play around with these today as part of a preview release (NuGet link below). Tune in! Niners asked questions in advance…
SmallBasic is a new programming language aimed at beginners. It was created as a side project of
Vijaye Raji, a software developer on the Oslo team. SmallBasic is a very limited language with only a handful of keywords and a small set of concepts that should make builing an application on
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Clojure is a dynamic programming language created by Rich Hickey that targets both the Java Virtual Machine and the CLR. It is designed to be a general-purpose language, combining
the approachability and interactive development of a scripting language with an efficient and robust…
Erik Meijer and team (developer Wes Dyer, in particular) have created a profound and beautiful .NET library that will take managed event based programming to new levels. Of course, many of you wish that you could write LINQ expressions over events. Well,
now you can thanks to Erik's and Wes…
While attending GOTO Aarhus 2012, the great Gilad Bracha stopped by the venue (he wasn't attending or speaking at the conference. He was in Aarhus to do work with the core DART engineering team, who are based there). Erik Meijer was a track owner for the event, so he was wandering around the halls…
You've already learned a great deal about Erik Meijer's latest programming creation, Rx, right here on Channel 9 (here
and
here, to be precise). Well, wouldn't it be great to get the two key minds behind Rx in one place with one whiteboard? Yes, of course it would! Enter…
Patrick Dussud is a Technical Fellow at Microsoft who is the author of .NET's garbage collector (GC) - the automatic memory management
infrastructure that makes up most of what is managed in managed code execution. How does GC, work, generally? Why is it important? The GC inside of the…
It's not often that we can get two minds of Erik Meijer's and Herb Sutter's caliber together for an impromptu technical conversation during Christmas break at Microsoft... Well, we did and the next hour or so contains a lot of intelligence, knowledge, wisdom, and passion. This is one…