[Pl-seminar] Reminder: 2/6 Seminar: Andrei Alexandrescu: Design by Introspection using the D Language

[Daniel Patterson]

Reminder: This is next Tuesday, at 11:45AM!

Daniel Patterson <dbp at ccs.neu.edu> writes:

> NOTE: This semester, our regular seminar time is Tuesday at 11:45AM.
>
> NUPRL Seminar Presents
>
> Andrei Alexandrescu
> D Language Foundation
>
> 11:45AM
> Tuesday, February 6th, 2018
> Room 366 WVH (http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/wand/directions.html)
>
> Design by Introspection using the D Language
>
> Abstract
>
> Years ago, D started modestly as an improved offering in the realm of
> systems programming languages, sharing a good deal of philosophy with C
> and C++. With time, however, D became a very distinct language with
> unique features (and, of course, its own mistakes).
>
> One angle of particular interest has been D's ability to perform
> compile-time introspection. Artifacts in a D program can be "looked at"
> during compilation. Coupled with a full-featured compile-time evaluation
> engine and with an ability to generate arbitrary code during
> compilation, this has led to a number of interesting applications.
>
> This talk shares early experience with using these features of the D
> language. Design by Introspection is a proposed programming paradigm
> that assembles designs by performing introspection on components during
> compilation.
>
> Bio
>
> Andrei Alexandrescu is a researcher, software engineer, and author. He
> wrote three best-selling books on programming (Modern C++ Design, C++
> Coding Standards, and The D Programming Language) and numerous articles
> and papers on wide-ranging topics from programming to language design to
> Machine Learning to Natural Language Processing. Andrei holds a PhD in
> Computer Science from the University of Washington and a BSc in
> Electrical Engineering from University "Politehnica" Bucharest. He
> currently works on the D Language Foundation. http://erdani.com