YOU WERE EATEN BY A GRUE - Audience Level: Advanced
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Thinking about the practical applications of immutable data, almost certainly the least useful and most ridiculous thing would be a processor itself - or indeed - an entire virtual computer!
In this talk, you will discover an entirely immutable F# implementation of a virtual machine, Infocom's legendary 1979 Z-Machine. A stroke of brilliance in a fast emerging new computer game scene, the Z-Machine was one of the first successful commercial applications of a virtual machine and rightfully took a spot as one of the big landmarks of computer game history.
In today's even faster moving world of technology and languages, you can still learn a few lessons from this dusty, mostly forgotten relic. Modern computing lingo would perhaps call the Z-Machine a "domain specific computer"™. A similar concept is still used today in large game engines, though this style of computing is mostly unknown and unfamiliar. Perhaps inspiration can be drawn from such a paradigm? At any rate, the idea of an immutable computer is completely ridiculous - or is it?
The author categorically denies that any squirrels and / or type providers were harmed during the development of this software and / or talk.
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YOU WERE EATEN BY A GRUE - Audience Level: Advanced
Ross McKinlay
Ross has been accidentally wiping hard drives and melting transistors into his fingers since he can remember. He has over 20 years programming experience in a wide variety of different languages and technologies, ranging from games and financial markets to fraud prevention and investigation. He has more recently been working on F# type providers. He loves squirrels, physics, electronics, robotics, functional programming, programming languages in general and squirrels.
Please log in to watch this conference skillscast.
Thinking about the practical applications of immutable data, almost certainly the least useful and most ridiculous thing would be a processor itself - or indeed - an entire virtual computer!
In this talk, you will discover an entirely immutable F# implementation of a virtual machine, Infocom's legendary 1979 Z-Machine. A stroke of brilliance in a fast emerging new computer game scene, the Z-Machine was one of the first successful commercial applications of a virtual machine and rightfully took a spot as one of the big landmarks of computer game history.
In today's even faster moving world of technology and languages, you can still learn a few lessons from this dusty, mostly forgotten relic. Modern computing lingo would perhaps call the Z-Machine a "domain specific computer"™. A similar concept is still used today in large game engines, though this style of computing is mostly unknown and unfamiliar. Perhaps inspiration can be drawn from such a paradigm? At any rate, the idea of an immutable computer is completely ridiculous - or is it?
The author categorically denies that any squirrels and / or type providers were harmed during the development of this software and / or talk.
YOU MAY ALSO LIKE:
- DRAGON TREATS: ~ THE BLENDING OF THE PARADIGMS ~ (SkillsCast recorded in April 2016)
- F# eXchange 2020 (in London on 2nd - 3rd April 2020)
- London .NET September 2019 with James Bender (in London on 4th September 2019)
- London Unreal Engine Meetup #32 (in London on 5th September 2019)
- Why Ethics Matter And What we Forget About Our Past (SkillsCast recorded in May 2019)
- Introduction to Markov Chains in F# (SkillsCast recorded in April 2019)
Thanks to our sponsors
YOU WERE EATEN BY A GRUE - Audience Level: Advanced
Ross McKinlay
Ross has been accidentally wiping hard drives and melting transistors into his fingers since he can remember. He has over 20 years programming experience in a wide variety of different languages and technologies, ranging from games and financial markets to fraud prevention and investigation. He has more recently been working on F# type providers. He loves squirrels, physics, electronics, robotics, functional programming, programming languages in general and squirrels.