Below is an updated title and abstract for Richard Gabriel's (http:// dreamsongs.com/) keynote at Clojure/West:
Title: Engineering(,) A Path to Science: “I don’t want to die in a language I can’t understand Abstract: "I’m going to talk about one, old paper: “Mixin-based Inheritance,” by Gilad Bracha and William Cook, published in 1990. Bracha is now one of Google’s Dart guys. I will draw two observations from that paper in its context, one trivial but difficult for some to believe, and one complex whose implications might surprise. The first is that in the discipline of programming languages, engineers create the nature that computer scientists study—that is, engineering precedes science. The second is that we can use Thomas Kuhn’s and Paul Feyerabend’s notion of incommensurability to detect paradigm shifts in our field, and what we learn by doing that can be surprising. In case this sounds boring to you (fair enough), consider how Kuhn stumbled on the idea of incommensurability: Incommensurability is a notion that for me emerged from attempts to understand apparently nonsensical passages in old scientific texts." On Jan 22, 11:29 pm, Alex Miller <a...@puredanger.com> wrote: > If you want to meet with other Clojure developers, check out Clojure/ > West in San Jose, CA March 16-17th! It is preceded by several days of > training (which may also be taken independently from the conference). > The Clojure/West conference and training early bird rates end *this > Friday* Jan 27th. > > Conference > * Schedule:http://clojurewest.org/schedule > * Register:http://regonline.com/clojurewest2012- $375 till Friday! > * Sponsor:http://clojurewest.org/sponsor-prospectus > > Training - $200 off till Friday! > * Register:http://regonline.com/clojurewest2012training > * Intro to Clojure (3 days) - Stuart Sierra, Alan Dipert > -http://clojurewest.org/training-intro-to-clojure > * Cascalog (3 days) - Sam Ritchie -http://clojurewest.org/training-cascalog > * Clojure Web (2 days) - Chris Granger > -http://clojurewest.org/training-clojure-web > * Pallet (2 days) - Hugo Duncan, Toni Batchelli > -http://clojurewest.org/training-pallet > > Hope you can make it! > - Alex Miller -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
