TITLE: StrangeLoop: This and That, Volume 1
AUTHOR: Eugene Wallingford
DATE: September 23, 2013  4:22 PM
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[My notes on StrangeLoop 2013:
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I'm working on a post about the compiler talks I attended,
but in the meantime here are a few stray thoughts, mostly
from Day 1.


The Peabody Opera House really is a nice place to hold a
conference of this size.  If StrangeLoop were to get much
larger, it might not fit.


I <B>really</B> don't like the word "architected".


The talks were scheduled pretty well.  Only once in two days
did I find myself <EM>really</EM> wanting to go to two talks
at the same time.  And only once did I hear myself thinking,
"I don't want to hear any of these...".


My only real regret from Day 1 was missing
<A HREF="https://twitter.com/silentbicycle">
   Scott Vokes</A>'s
talk on data compression.  I enjoyed the talk I went to well
enough, but I think I would have enjoyed this one more.


What a glorious time to be a programming language theory weenie.
Industry practitioners are going to conferences and attending
talks on dependent types, continuations, macros, immutable data
structures, and functional reactive programming.


<A HREF="http://moonhooch.bandcamp.com/">
   Moon Hooch</A>?
Interesting name, interesting sound.
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