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We Speak Your Language Darius Blasband & Jan Vitek
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'We Speak Your Language' is a podcast from Raincode Labs, created by compiler engineers, for compiler engineers, featuring real life stories from experts in the field, giving us their two cents on their own personal experiences.Each month you can enjoy a new episode featuring an external guest, from every corner of the world, each episode featuring a different discussion in the field of compiler technology.
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Martin Odersky
Martin Odersky is a German computer scientist and professor of programming methods at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. He specializes in code analysis and programming languages. He spearheaded the design of Scala and Generic Java.In 1989, he received his Ph.D. from ETH Zurich under the supervision of Niklaus Wirth, who is best known as the designer of several programming languages, including Pascal. He did postdoctoral work at IBM and Yale University.In 1997, he...
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Episode 3 - Roberto Ierusalimschy
Roberto Ierusalimschy is a legend: he is the designer and main implementer of Lua, the de facto standard for scripting languages used in video games such as Roblox, World of Warcraft and many others. More than his (incredible) stories, his (equally incredible) insights, what sets Roberto aside is his light-hearted attitude to sharing his work with the masses, and his unique sense of humor. A wonderful interview of an inspiring personality!
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Episode 2 - Walter Bright
Over his career, Walter Bright has accomplished many wonderful things, his most notable work being the D programming language. In this episode Walter discusses his life's work, including how he embarked upon the creation of the D language and also his work creating the Zortech C++ compiler.
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Episode 1 - Nora Sandler
At just 30 years old, Nora has achieved some things that some people would not achieve in their entire lifetime. After studying at the University of Chicago, Nora went on to study at the Recurse Centre in New York, where she expanded her knowledge of compilers. In this episode, Nora will talk about her book “Writing a C Compiler” which will be published next year.
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Episode 6 - Cliff Click
Cliff Click wrote his first compiler at just 15 years old. During his career Cliff has proceeded to write the Java HotSpot JIT compiler. This compiler was one of the very first of its kind, which gracefully brought Java into the mainstream in the manner it is used today, which Cliff will discuss in this episode.
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Episode 5 - Manuel Serrano
Manuel Serrano is a researcher at INRIA in Sophia Antipolis, where he focuses on language design and implementation of high-level programming languages. In this episode, among other topics, he will discuss his work on the development of his ahead of time Javascript compiler.