Sponsors

  • Microsoft
  • Nebula
  • Google
  • SugarCRM
  • Facebook
  • HP
  • Intel
  • Rackspace Hosting
  • WSO2
  • Alfresco
  • BlackBerry
  • CUBRID
  • Dell
  • eBay
  • Heroku
  • InfiniteGraph
  • JBoss
  • LeaseWeb
  • Liferay
  • Media Temple, Inc.
  • OpenShift
  • Oracle
  • Percona
  • Puppet Labs
  • Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc.
  • Rentrak
  • Silicon Mechanics
  • SoftLayer Technologies, Inc.
  • SourceGear
  • Urban Airship
  • Vertica
  • VMware
  • (mt) Media Temple, Inc.

Sponsorship Opportunities

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Brian Rice

Brian Rice
Software Developer, Slate programming language

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Brian Rice is a software developer and consultant with a long-time interest in programming language design and paradigms. He has a background in engineering mathematics, embedded systems, and data-warehousing and analytics. He feels more at home with category theory than in Haskell, but don’t hold that against him.

Sessions

11:30am Wednesday, 07/27/2011
Slate
Emerging Languages
 Location: E144
Tags: smalltalk, lisp, prototypes
Brian Rice (Slate programming language)
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Slate is a self-hosted dynamic language based on prototypes and multi-dispatch. It melds the Smalltalk and Lisp traditions, while attempting to incorporate ideas and idioms from a variety of sources. Slate is being re-invented using Atomo as an incubator along with direction from Newspeak and functional programming. Read more.