Neal Gafter's blog

Thoughts about Programming Languages, Science and Philosophy.

Friday, February 13, 2009

A video of my talk at the September 2008 JVM Language Summit has been posted. It's a discussion of how Java SE is tilted toward supporting the Java language at the expense of other languages, and what we might do about it.

Neal Gafter: Neal Gafter is a Computer Programming Language Designer and Implementer, Amateur Scientist and Philosopher. He works on the Rel compiler at Relational.AI. He previously worked for Microsoft on C#, for Google on Calendar, and for Sun Microsystems on Java. Neal was granted an OpenJDK Community Innovators' Challenge award for his design and implementation of lambda expressions for Java. He is coauthor of Java Puzzlers: Traps, Pitfalls, and Corner Cases (Addison Wesley, 2005). He was a member of the C++ Standards Committee and led the development of C and C++ compilers at Sun Microsystems, Microtec Research, and Texas Instruments. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Rochester.

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