I'm so happy to live in a world where I can stream a talk like this that happened yesterday at a conference I'd not be able to attend. The motivation at the be

I'm so happy to live in a world where I can stream a talk like this that happened yesterday at a conference I'd not be able to attend. The motivation at the beginning with the punchcards and the following PDP-10 "poem" for computing the sin() function left me skeptical about what was to follow, but it turned out to set an excellent stage for the remainder of the talk. By the time he got to the "big deal" ideas at the end, I was well prepared to accept his thesis. Don't miss this talk. Take the time to watch it. One nice bit: he admits that if he knew 7 years ago what he knows today, Fortress might have started with Haskell and been pushed 1/10th of the way towards fortran, rather than starting with an object-based foundation and writing side-effect-free functional domain-specific-languages on top of it.