Engelbart’s demo in 1968 put forth compelling visions for personal computing that led to almost 30 years of innovation. Can we do the same for programming languages today? This presentation introduces several new PL technologies to this end. Type-less eliminates most type...
Sean Mcdirmid
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ResearcherMicrosoft Research Asia
I am a researcher at Microsoft Research Asia who does unconventional programming language and environment research, including design, live programming, advanced code completion, and how we can program with touch. Before working at Microsoft, I obtained my PhD from the University of Utah and my BS from the University of Washington, with a post doc at EPFL working on Scala and the Scala IDE with Martin Odersky.
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The Mother of all Programming Languages Demos
Featuring Sean Mcdirmid
languagesEngelbart’s demo in 1968 put forth compelling visions for personal computing that led to almost 30 years of innovation. Can we do the same for programming languages today? This presentation introduces several new PL technologies to this end. Type-less eliminates most type...
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The Mother of all Programming Languages Demos
Featuring Sean Mcdirmid
languagesEngelbart’s demo in 1968 put forth compelling visions for personal computing that led to almost 30 years of innovation. Can we do the same for programming languages today? This presentation introduces several new PL technologies to this end. Type-less eliminates most type...