Influential Works

Influential Papers

• Perceus: Garbage Free Reference Counting with Reuse

• Extensible records with scoped labels

• Self: The Power of Simplicity

Influential Talks

• Growing a Language

• Outperforming Imperative with Pure Functional Languages

Other Influences

• Descriptions of the ς-calculus here, here, and here

• This sample implementation of the type system

• The Smalltalk Programming Language