DiscoverType Theory Forall#55 The Death of OO, The Beauty of Scheme, BobKonf, and FunArch - Mike Sperber
#55 The Death of OO, The Beauty of Scheme, BobKonf, and FunArch - Mike Sperber

#55 The Death of OO, The Beauty of Scheme, BobKonf, and FunArch - Mike Sperber

Update: 2025-10-27
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Mike Sperber is the CEO of Active Group, a company designed for Counseling, Development and Training in functional programming. He is a co-organizer of Bob Konf and FunArch, the Co-founder of the leading german blog on functional programming. Member of the Editorial Board of the JFP. Part of the R6RS, the 6th revised report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme.


In our conversation we talk about C, Lisp, Emacs Lisp, Scheme and his involvement with the R6RS. His views on mathematics and formal methods as languages, his views on the use of Functional Programming in the Industry, his thoughts of how Object Oriented Programming is dead. Macros, hygienic macros and much more!


We also talk about BobKonf and FunArch as amazing confereces on Functional Programming and their design and archtechture. BobKonf currently has a call for talks open and goes until november 17th.


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#55 The Death of OO, The Beauty of Scheme, BobKonf, and FunArch - Mike Sperber

#55 The Death of OO, The Beauty of Scheme, BobKonf, and FunArch - Mike Sperber

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