This is the episode in which we find out Daniel's secret love for Windows 7, how elegant a small library by dick wall can be, and that Yuvi thinks patents are awesome (at least, hardware patents have potential there).

Links:

Subcut: https://github.com/dickwall/subcut

Patent review website for OSS: http://peertopatent.org/

Increase in # of allowances lately: http://cleere-law.com/patent_allowances.aspx

New patent director: http://ipwatchdog.com/2009/04/15/announcement-nears-on-new-patent-office-director/id=2636/

Also, all views presented in this podcast are that of the members of the podcast.  No views or statements reflect in any way the views of the spouses of the members of the podcast.

Direct download: dickwall-part2.mp3
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New Idea:  Fill in all of Daniel's esoteric type theory references!!!

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  • JDK 7 (bugs INCLUDED!)
    • lucene
  • Oracle like $$$ and sells a database.  You may have heard of it.
  • Invoke Dynamic
  • John Rose is awesome
  • Who’s the Scala JCP ‘insider’?
  • Scala Debugger
  • .NET vs JVM
  • JSR 223
    • *is* used in industry
    • *not* good for cross-language support
  • Cross-Compiling cross-languages is *hard*
  • Josh lost his laptop
  • Bill Venners is fun. See corrected Episode #1 show notes.  We’re sorry for the hate mail, Bill!
  • Scala training with Bill Venners + Dick Wall
    • Send us your hatemail.  scalatypes@googlegroups.com
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  • Open forum to discuss some of these issues
  • The SBT move should be completed
    • Right now, Scala + stdlib is built with Ant
    • Nobody’s wild about Ant [PDF]
    • Is SBT up for the complexity of Scala’s build system?
    • Bootstrap a language, using a language, using a build system written in that language
      • Most phenomenal accomplishment in dogfooding you will ever see
      • SBT 0.9 should make the whole process much easier
    • To make Mark happy, ask him about pretty lights
    • The goal of the industry is to succeed, the goal of accademia is to fail
      • (because you learn more from your failures)
  • Documentation of the core libs needs to be treated seriously
    • There’s not enough API documentation, especially when coming from a Java background
    • Maybe simplify the scaladoc tool?
      • @usecase is supposed to hide the types you don’t need to know about
      • Editor’s note: ironically, the @usecase annotation isn’t documented.  At all.  To see how it’s used, read a bit of the source code for GenTraversableLike.
      • People don’t understand [usecase]j (yet)
    • Why do we need to know about GenTraversableOnce?
    • Use Vector for everything, it’s awesome
    • Most people who know Scala use List, Vector, Map, etc rather than Seq, etc
    • Scala code is concise, which makes it weird to write long and explanatory scaladoc
    • Types as documentation? (– Tony Morris)
  • GitHub move should be completed


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Show Notes: Scala Days Recap

  1. Scala Days was a great time!
  2. Multi-core; distributed; applicative; and we’re hiring.James Iry
  3. Staged compilation
  4. ScalaCL
  5. Scala on alternate platforms
    1. LLVM
    2. Scala IO
    3. Java bytecode on LLVM
    4. GHC on LLVM
    5. Scala in the enterprise
  6. Daniel’s stunt double spoke at Scala Days
    1. Anti-XML
  7. Four tracks at Scala Days
    1. Wadler’s arrow calculus
    2. Scala React
      1. .NET has reactive programming
      2. The future is a function of the past – Rich Hickey
    3. Spark
    4. Josh mimicked the Scala collections library, needed separate hierarchy
      1. Should parallel collections have been a separate hierarchy?
      2. The primary reason anyone should pick up Scala is the collections library


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