Ask Me Anything with Guy Steele
summary
Long Q&A that hits concrete projects and lessons: explains the telnet song as a real exponential-escape-character example, evaluates persistent memory vs databases and notes Fortress’s unused transactional/persistence work, argues for default parallelism and removing numeric precedence so programmers must parenthesize, describes tooling experiments with Unicode and MathJax for two‑dimensional code, reports ongoing work to replace splitmix in the JDK with a shift-xor+LCG compound, and reflects on user studies and proof-checking languages.
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chapters (21)
- 0:00Introduction
- 4:20Persistent Memory
- 7:10Parallelism
- 11:53Notation
- 13:01Proof checkers
- 15:35Nvidia
- 16:13Two different questions
- 17:52Proof checking languages
- 20:32Pee
- 21:51Random Number Generators
- 23:46Tail Calls
- 24:29Waste of Time
- 26:12Bad Ideas
- 27:42Swift
- 29:44Dependent Types
- 30:49User Studies
- 33:14APL
- 37:22Group Singing
- 38:22Musical Performance
- 39:58Apple Trees
- 42:14Yusuke Endo
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