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SUMMARY:The beauty of bootstrapping and the joy of JIT - Dr Michael Spivey
  (University of Oxford)
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DESCRIPTION:"GeomLab is a simple functional language that we use at Oxford
  to help school students explore computer programming in a functional lang
 uage with graphics.  Recently\, I have been working on a faster implementa
 tion that is based on compiling dynamically to code for the Java virtual m
 achine.  The project has become self-hosting\, in that most of the GeomLab
  compiler is now written in its own language and compiles itself.  The mes
 sage of this talk is that using the JVM as a target makes it an easy and p
 leasant task to implement a programming language with reasonable performan
 ce\, and better fun than ever as a personal programming project.  Since Ge
 omLab is open source\, it can provide a springboard for your own experimen
 ts."\n\nAdmission free to CUCaTS members\, £2 otherwise. Membership may a
 lso be bought at the door. As usual refreshments will be served 15 minutes
  before the start of the talk.
LOCATION:MR5\, Centre for Mathematical Sciences
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