Lambda the Ultimate

Jonathan Edwards has published a draft of his latest OOPSLA submission: First Class Copy & Paste:

The Subtext project seeks to make programming fundamentally easier by altering the nature of programming languages and tools. This paper defines an operational semantics for an essential subset of the Subtext language. It also presents a fresh approach to the problems of mutable state, I/O, and concurrency.

The subtext project has been previously discussed here in LtU.

Steve Ross-Talbot has more than 20 years of experience leveraging cutting-edge research and applying it to real business problems. Recently he founded Pi4 Technologies where he and his team draw on the field of the pi-calculus to improve the ability to design, automate, and analyze business processes.

The interview goes into more detail than you might expect,

Surely, we should be able to prove something about interaction. I started looking at other papers that leveraged the work of Robin Milner and the pi-calculus and found some fundamental work by Vasco Vasconcelos and Kohei Honda. Their work looked at something called session type...