050 miniKanren With William Byrd

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A programming language that doesn’t change the way you think about programming isn’t worth learning — Alan Kay

MiniKanren is a relational programming language that has been used for both research and in industry. Find out how it was created and how it can be used to to do useful work in your programs.

Panel

  • William Byrd (@webyrd)
  • Robert Virding ()
  • Kevin Hammond ()
  • Zachary Kessin ()
  • The Reasoned Schemer
  • miniKanren
  • core.logic
  • ExKanren
  • ErlKanren
  • erlog
  • 7 More Languages in 7 Weeks
  • Prolog Episode of Mostly Erlang
  • Curry-Howard Isomerism
  • The Type Theory Podcast
  • Will’s PhD Dissertation

Language Picks

  • Language with Come From & While Don’t (Kevin)
  • Concurrency and Parallelism (Robert)
  • Forth & Factor (Will)
  • Term Re-writing Systems (Will)
  • PLT-Redex
  • http://r-project.org R (Zach)
  • awk

049 Supervisors

Supervisors are all about creating solid guarantees of how the system will recover after a fault and how it will be setup. If Erlang supervisors have ever confused you, or if you want to understand how this feature makes erlang one of the most powerful tools for building distributed systems this is the episode for you

Panel

  • Fred Hebert ()
  • Zachary Kessin ()
  • Irina Guberman ()
  • Francesco Cesarini ()

Help Wanted

  • Erlang Central

Picks

 

Confrences

“…when 100 people are listening to you for an hour, that’s 100 hours of people’s time devoted to what you have to say. If you can’t spend 5 or 10 hours preparing for them, thinking about them, and refining your points to best suit their needs, what does that say about your respect for your audience’s time? It says that your 5 hours are more important than 100 of theirs, which requires an ego larger than the entire solar system. And there is no doubt this disrespect will be obvious once you are on the stage.” – Confessions of a Public Speaker , Scott Berkun

Conferences, we talk about them almost every episode, but what are they like, how do you go to your first conference? How do you become a speaker at one and how can we make our conferences better? We talk at length about all of these things with a great crew of old timers and new folks

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Panel

  • Fred Hebert ()
  • Zachary Kessin ()
  • Simon Thompson ()
  • Simon St Lawrence ()
  • Irina Guberman ()
  • Francesco Cesarini ()

Picks

047 Nitrogen Web Framework

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Nitrogen

Nitrogen is a framework for creating rich web applications from erlang, for all of us who hate doing front end dev we can now do most of it within Erlang. Project maintainer Jesse Gumm joins us to talk about it and how to use it.

Panel

  • Zachary Kessin ()
  • Jesse Gumm ()
  • Fred Hebert ()

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