Software Engineering Radio

Recording Venue: Skype
Guest(s): Scott Meyers

Host(s): Markus
This episode is a conversation with Scott Meyers about the upcoming C++0x standard. We talk a bit about the reasons for creating this new standard and then cover the most important new features, including upport for concurrency, implicitly-typed variables, move semantics, variadic templates, lambda functions, and uniform initialization syntax. We also looked at some new features in the standard library.

Links:

• Scott Meyers’ C++0x Training Course
• just::thread Implementation of C++0x Concurrency Features
• C++0x Feature Availability in gcc and VC++
• Wikipedia:C++0x
• Scott’s Website
• Scott Meyers’ C++0x Training Materials

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Guest(s): Rich Hickey

Host(s): Markus
This episode is a coversation with Rich Hickey about his programming language Clojure. Clojure is a Lisp dialect that runs on top of the JVM that comes with – among other things – persistent data structures and transactional memory, both very useful for writing concurrent applications.

Links:

• Persistent Data Structures
• Transactional Memory
• Previous SE Radio Episode on Lisp with Dick Gabriel
• Rich Hickey on Twitter
• Clojure

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Recording Venue: Skype
Guest(s): Ola Bini

Host(s): Markus
This is a conversation with Ola Bini on his experimental language Ioke. We cover the idea behind the Ioke experiment as well as important language concepts and the thinking behind them.

Links:

• Ioke
• Ola Bini’s website

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Recording Venue: Skype
Guest(s): Jim Melton

Host(s): Arno
In this episode, Arno talks to Jim Melton about the SQL programming language. In addition to covering the concepts and ideas behind SQL, Jim shares stories and insights based on his many years’ experience as SQL specification lead.

Links:

• Book: SQL Performance Tuning
• Book: SQL for Smarties

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