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Phillip Wadler just gave a tech talk on Faith, Evolution, and Programming Languages.

The ending had one of the geekiest moment I have ever seen, when the professorial Wadler rips open his shirt to show that he is LAMBDA man :)

It was an interesting talk, tying together evolution and religion to our computer science world. It delves into the mathematical side from the get go, and you understand why the professor would be a fan of the functional, provable world.

It also shows how someone who is really a functional guy, can handle writing a book on Generics.

If you want to get rid of the fancy look and feels and go for a back of the napkin look, you can:

Billy Newport would like Pipes that work in the enterprise. This is interesting, as we have moved from Web 2.0 meaning “that kewl cmpny 2.0 that runs on Rails”, and a lot of the technology is being seriously looked at inside launch enterprises.

As this happens, we find that some of the needs of the enterprise can be slightly different that those of the public Web.

I was just talking to someone from a large financial company, and they are wrestling with how to do composite applications within their intranet. Enterprise Mashups. They were running into issues around SSO and other problems that simple portals do not solve for them.

I almost froze when I heard “we are looking for J2EE for Ajax apps”. He didn’t mean JEE in the way we think of it (they are happy Spring users btw), but he did want some infrastructure pieces to enable the sort of mashups to be built in his large organization. There can be complicated rules for which services you can talk too, and the data that comes back from them depends on your role, and much much more.

Is anyone out there helping enterprises join the mashup world? I think they could make some money.