Lambda the Ultimate

A short position paper that tries to motivate managed time by contrasting it with data flow approaches; to be presented at SPLASH's REBLS workshop; abstract:

Event-driven programming avoids wasting user and CPU time, but is difficult to perform since program control flow is necessarily inverted and twisted. To make reactive programming easier, many advocate burying control flow within abstractions that are composed via data flow instead. This might be a mistake: data-flow has issues with expressiveness and usability that might not pan out. Instead, control flow could be re-invented to hide the adverse affects of CPU time while preserving expressiveness and directness

So there are lots of things people here have already been exposed to, but a lot of them seem to fail to get much traction. Thus I very much appreciate this talk by David Nolan which helps "sell" more of the FP side of the FP vs. OO wars if you will, via Om: Clojurescript for React.

(Of course, he has to go and spoil it all by (1) selling AOP as well, and (2) insufficiently stressing the frustrations of trying to do these things in the Real World... but I guess I can't expect perfect nirvana to descend upon all people everywhere.)