Software Engineering Radio

Recording Venue:
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:
Guest(s): Erik Meijer

Host(s): Arno
This episode is a discussion with Erik Meijer on LINQ. This is a relatively technical discussion about the following topics: what is LINQ, what are the common abstractions between the different data structures one can access with LINQ, what is the relationship to established languages for querying, how does the integration into the type system of the host language work, how to specify the mapping between the language level classes and the data, and how optimizations are implemented (lazy loading, prefetching, etc.).

Links:

• Video Interview with Anders Hejlsberg on LINQ
• LINQ explained at Wikipedia
• Erik’s web page
• The LINQ project

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