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A report on Gilad Bracha's presentation at Lang.NET 2006 entitled "Dynamically Typed Languages on the Java Platform".

We discussed several of the ideas mentioned, but I think we should continue to follow this story.

By Ehud Lamm at 2006-08-04 13:28 | Cross language runtimes | other blogs | 9144 reads

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Javascript in Java 6

And Java Standard Edition 6 (Java SE 6), also known by the codename Mustang, "will come with a JavaScript implementation packaged in" when it becomes available later this year, he said.

I hope that it will support optimized tail calls and continuations, like RhinoWithContinuations.

By Anton van Straaten at Fri, 2006-08-04 14:12 | login or register to post comments

future-proof

If they want to future-proof for ECMAScript Edition 4, they ought to. They'll have to deal with it then anyway. :)

By Dave Herman at Sat, 2006-08-05 01:08 | login or register to post comments

Sun Innovation: New IT Career

Gilad Bracha, a computational theologist at Sun delivered a presentation called "Dynamically Typed Languages on the Java Platform" at the Lang.NET 2006 Symposium...

Could this sort of person help us pray that we've found all of our bugs? b^)

By Jess Austin at Fri, 2006-08-04 17:25 | login or register to post comments

In case you thought it was a typo, it's on his CV

http://bracha.org/cv.pdf

I should also note that "Evangelist" is an official job title at Microsoft.

By grant at Fri, 2006-08-04 18:19 | login or register to post comments

Trivium

It seems the general practise began at Apple.

By Leo Richard Comerford at Sat, 2006-08-05 00:06 | login or register to post comments

Yep

As did departmental naming of their own conference rooms, so the evangelism department's were named after famous evangelists, of course, while my department's (MacDTS) was named after catch-phrases from "The Prisoner:" "We Want Information," "I Am Not a Number..."

By Paul Snively at Sat, 2006-08-05 07:02 | login or register to post comments

Hmm...

Yeah, I was going to mention that as well... This is not a title I'd be proud of, for lots of reasons...

By Matt Hellige at Fri, 2006-08-04 18:22 | login or register to post comments

This title is really old

This title is really old news. I am surprised people are noticing it just now.

By Ehud Lamm at Fri, 2006-08-04 18:28 | login or register to post comments

Note from a titular etymologist

I'm with Gilad: "The usual titles are unspeakably boring, and non-descriptive as well." -- from What is a Computational Theologist?

By Anton van Straaten at Fri, 2006-08-04 19:04 | login or register to post comments

More links on lang.NET 2006

Michael Lehman is gathering links on Lang.NET 2006 on his blog.

Some have made fairly lengthy remarks on Gilad Bracha's presentation. One valuable feature: Gilad stayed for the remainder of the symposium. It was useful to have his ongoing participation and discussion.

By orcmid at Fri, 2006-08-04 22:37 | login or register to post comments