Vive la France long live the US(2lr.substack.com) |
Vive la France long live the US(2lr.substack.com) |
As a computer science professor in Silicon Valley who has never been to France, I now have the sudden urge to learn more about France and visit one day. I don’t know much about French culture, but I’m very interested in craftsmanship and elegance.
I’ve noticed over the years that many interesting contributions to programming language research were made in Western Europe, especially statically-typed functional programming. I could be wrong, but I get the sense that there’s a lot of theoretical CS research coming out of Europe, while there’s more of an applied focus in the United States.