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[[http://soft.vub.ac.be/~tvcutsem/whypls.html][An Essay on Language Design]]

Interests in programming language design:
	* Concurrency abstractions (actors, channels, joins, STM, ...)
	* Distributed computing abstractions (remote references, failure handling, ...)
	* Parallel programming abstractions (data parallelism, fork/join, !MapReduce, ...)
	* Asynchronous and event-driven computations (futures, promises, reactive programming, ...)
	* Object models (class-based, prototype-based, ...)
	* Object composition (mixins, traits, ...)
	* Language "symbiosis" (e.g. interoperation of dynamic languages and the JVM)
	* Reflection (mirrors, intercession, meta-objects, ...)
	* Meta-programming (macros, quasiquoting, ...)
	* Psychology of programming (Green's cognitive dimensions of notations)

Talk to me about: !AmbientTalk, Javascript, Erlang, Clojure, Scheme, Self, Ruby, Java, Occam, Fortress, X10, Chapel, ...


-- Main.TomVanCutsem - 12 May 2011