ACCU 'local' online events is pleased to welcome Richard Park who will be telling us about A Programming Language and Phil Nash who will fill in languages from B to C - and beyond - while presenting 'Polymorphism À La Carte'
Programme (times are approximate):
19:00 Intro and News
19:10 A Programming Language for Thinking about Algorithms
Being able to code isn't enough. You have to be able to reason about your algorithms if you want to get them right. Just like the symbolic notation of traditional mathematics allows you to think about your formulas, so too, a programming language inspired by traditional mathematical notation can aid your thinking about problems and the code used to solve them.
This session presents APL and its benefits for high-level development and comparison of algorithms, leading to an intuition about performance, for example in the context of memory access and amenability to GPU computing.
20:00 Break
20:15 Polymorphism À La Carte
If we've been using C++ family languages (including Java, C#, D etc) we may have a narrow idea of how polymorphism works. In this talk we'll present several different ways to do polymorphism, in a few different languages, along with their respective trade-offs, and conclude that, ideally, we'd have access to several approaches so we can pick the right one for the moment. Clojure does just that, coining the term Polymorphism À La Carte, and we'll hint at a C++ library that can do so, too. We'll do this in the context of the historical family tree of languages that C++ grew up in.
21:00 Talks end -- socialising in Remo
