OOPSLA 5: Wednesday

Wednesday started with the keynote by Guy Steele (he'll be on the SE Radio podcast soon!) about the Fortress language. Keynote was great! Fortress is a language intended for scientific computing: mathematical notations, strong type system, extensible through libraries and parallelism. One thing I was thinking of (and what I forgot to ask him in the podcast interview) was the relationship of Fortran/Fortress to tools like Mathematica. In which situations would you use which of the tools/languages? Later we did a number of interviews for the podcast. In the afternoon there was (once again!) a "great debate" on whether/why/how AOP is good or not. Not too many new things learned there. In the evening we had The Event in the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry. In spite of the cool museum, The Event was mainly about talking to other folks :-)  permalink