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In this episode I talk with Stian Veum Møllersen. We talk his introduction to programming, exploring programming languages, “Perlis Languages”, Concatenative Languages, Creative Programming, and more.

Our Guest, Stian Veum Møllersen

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Conference Announcements

LambdaWorld will be taking place in Cadiz, Spain on October 26th and 27th. For more information visit and to keep updated visit http://www.lambda.world/.

CodeMesh is coming up November 8th and 9th in London. For more information, and to keep an eye open for registration, visit http://www.codemesh.io/.

Clojure SYNC will be taking place in New Orleans on February 15th & 16th of 2018. For more information and to register visit: http://clojuresync.com/.

LambdaDays 2018 will be taking place February 22nd and 23rd in Kraków, Poland. For more information, and to register, visit http://www.lambdadays.org/.

If you have a conference related to functional programming, contact me, and I will be happy to announce it.

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Topics [@2:42]

About Stian

How Stian got into programming

Java

Starting out as a consulting

“I didn’t see programming as fun; it was more of a means to an end”

Discovering the fun of programming through front end development

ClojureScript

Elm

PureScript

Prolog

Michael Fogus’ Perlis Languages post

Eifell

Joy (mirror)

What about web development sparked the excitement about programming

Angus Croll – Break all the rules

Jed Schmidt browserver: a node.js HTTP server, in your browse

What sparked the excitement about learning about different languages

“I wanted to understand how we arrived at this point in history”

“If you take a framework to its ultimate conclusion you end up with a language anyway”

Evolution of language learning exploration

Java and Python in University

Functions as Values in JavaScript

Clojure

Exposure to the idea of Language Families

Lisp

Racket

Scheme

F#

Standard ML

Programming Languages Coursera Course by Dan Grossman

Prolog

“A language even stranger than Prolog”

First exposure Concatenative Languages

Difference between Stack-based and Concatenative Languages

Joy (mirror)

Experience when starting to learn Joy

The balance between declarative versus imperative in Concatenative Languages

Difficulty of just programming your way to a solution without thinking about the problem

Thinking Forth

How Concatenative Languages change your thinkings

Focus on Factoring in Thinking Forth

Algol

Cobol

C++

Smalltalk

Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code

Stian’s upcoming presentation at CodeMesh 2017

How Creative Programming works well with Concatenative Languages

Recommendations on getting started with Concatenative Languages

Read-Eval-Print-λove

Joy

Factor

Flatmap Oslo 2017 presentation (slides)

ait

turtle-ait

FARM 2017 presentation (slides)

#concatenative on FreeNode

Concatenative Languages wiki

As always, a giant Thank You goes to David Belcher for the logo design.