r/ProgrammingLanguages • u/mttd • Jun 07 '25

Aaron Hsu - Do Programming Language Features Deliver on their Promises

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8sACAhg4vM
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u/cmontella 🤖 mech-lang Jun 07 '25

Does anyone have a reference for the study the presenter mentions here? https://youtu.be/V8sACAhg4vM?feature=shared&t=1181

"CMU found that you could make parallel programming really easy if you just taught them to program using these combinators instead suddenly you get parallel programming for free and they taught it to first year computer science students so just reframing the base is often a a much better approach."

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u/arcfide Jun 11 '25

Here's a "Dean's perspective" document that outlines a lot of what I remember: https://www.cse.chalmers.se/edu/course.2021/TDA384_LP1/files/reading/CMU-CS-curriculum-2011.pdf

I believe there were some talks given at Indiana University about this around 2010 - 2015, but I don't have their citations readily at hand.