Featherweight Musings

I'm a research engineer at Mozilla working on the Rust compiler. I have history with Firefox layout and graphics, and programming language theory and type systems (mostly of the OO, Featherweight flavour, thus the title of the blog). http://www.ncameron.org @nick_r_cameron

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Things I don't like

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Specifically, things I don't like in programming languages. When I design the world's perfect programming language, none of these th...
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Feynman Quote

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"Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it." Substitute "PLT" for ...

Fun

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Surprisingly, this is not going to be a post about functional programming, nor about the existential types calculus, Fun; but, about fun, as...
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Sunday, August 17, 2008

Papers

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I'm currently writing the background chapter of my thesis, and this involves a lot of re-reading of papers. Several times now I've t...
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Tuesday, August 05, 2008

Egypt

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Currently I am in Egypt, to be precise I am in Dahab in the south Sinai. My mission is to write my thesis. I figured that it is a lot cheape...
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Saturday, August 02, 2008

PostDoc in NZ

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Slightly belated news, but I wanted to blog the other things before I forgot them all. From 2009 I will be working for James Noble in New Ze...
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Friday, August 01, 2008

A visit to an Najah University, Nablus.

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After leaving Cyprus I went to Israel, to visit a couple of friends and to do a few days sightseeing in the West Bank. After a couple of day...

ECOOP day 3

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First paper of the day was "Programming with Live Distributed Objects". I used to be quite into distributed programmer, so I was i...
Wednesday, July 30, 2008

ECOOP day 2

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Well my notes get sparser by the day and I attribute this to conference fatigue rather than fewer good talks, so here is my rather brief acc...
Tuesday, July 29, 2008

ECOOP day 1

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And so to the main conference. First of all I would like to brag that our paper was nominated for best paper, which is very flattering, unfo...
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