ezyang’s blog

the arc of software bends towards understanding

Creative catamorphisms

The bag of programming tricks that has served us so well for the last 50 years is the wrong way to think going forward and must be thrown out. Last week, Guy Steele came in and did a guest lecture "The Future is Parallel: What's a Programmer to Do?" for my advanced symbolic class (6.945). […]

  • April 23, 2010