PolyConf 16 Satellite Berlin

We tend to think of programming languages as the stuff that we make programs with that can run on computers. However, there is a different purpose they can be used for: structuring thought. In this talk, I will talk about my experience using Haskell as a way to talk clearly and precisely about domains and functions that live within and connect them, even if the program itself is implemented in a different language.

A lot of software, especially older software, is meant to run on specific machines. Whether it's games for a specific platform or some embedded system for a particular piece of hardware, many times we may want to run code on a different machine than it was intended. In this talk we'll be exploring how to solve this issue by writing an emulator (in the Rust programming language) for a little known "computer" (or rather virtual machine) from the 1970's known as CHIP-8.

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