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At my first OOPSLA in 2004, I became so enamored with the Wiki that I eventually used one to author my trip report. This time I decided to give blogging a go (full report here), but I’d like to retain one important feature of my previous trip report style: a section called “Things to Investigate”.

One of the great and terrifying things about OOPSLA, for me, is that I find myself unable to remember all the things I now absolutely must learn. This is at once both incredibly exciting, and daunting. Most assuredly, I will not have time to research all these topics, but I want to record them (for posterity, if nothing else).

Things to Investigate:

• Perl 6 and Pugs
• Haskell
• Type elaboration / inference (esp. Hindley-Milner)
• Monads
• List comprehensions (another link)
• Fortress
• J and APL
• LINQ
• Intentional Programming
• AoP
• LLVM
• Sun Studio (especially the new race-detection tools)
• The Smalltalk “Bluebook”
• Object vs Relational Databases (and ORM)
• Object Persistence (GemStone)
• Guy Steele’s Growing a Language talk
• Threads of different weights (especially so-called green threads).
• The Little Schemer
• Lisp in Small Pieces

Phew! That should keep me occupied for a year, eh?

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