PolyConf 15: The Promise of Relational Programming / William Byrd

Programmers often write procedures or methods that model mathematical functions. These functions clearly distinguish between input arguments and output values. In contrast, relational programming treats programs as mathematical relations, eliminating the distinction between input and output. miniKanren is an embedded domain specific language for constraint logic programming, designed for writing interpreters, type inferencers, theorem provers, and other interesting programs as relations. We will explore the extremely interesting and surprising behavior of these relational programs, and consider how this approach to programming might be made more practical in the future.

[ChristineLemmerWebber]

This is probably the best programming talk I've ever seen.  THANK YOU!  Such exciting stuff.  I really look forward to when we see more and more of the things demonstrated here in the technologies I use day to day...

[GloriousAssam]

9:34 mind blown, nice confirmation - lossless

[BuildThreadsNorway]

When he consed on the car of l, I realized that I had no idea what was going on:p