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Noel Welsh talks about adopting new programming languages, and looks at the conditions when a language could and should be adopted in a commercial setting. Filmed at qconlondon.com.
Noel Welsh is a founding partner at Underscore, where he helps teams become more productive with Scala and functional programming. He has 20 years experience working on systems ranging from recommender systems to web services, to embedded software. His main technical interests are functional programming, machine learning, digital art, and distributed systems.
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