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 **Duration**: 90 mins\\
 **Description**: \\
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 Reflections on what is comfortable and uncomfortable about developing concurrent software. \\
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-What makes for "comfortable software", that is to say software that is comfortable to work with?
+What makes for 'comfortable software', that is to say software that is comfortable to work with?
 In this talk, Dominic Robinson will take a look at different models of concurrency, their applicability and impact on your comfort as a developer. \\
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-Topics you will learn about include:
+Topics you will learn about include: \\
-- Concurrency vs parallelism.
+- Concurrency vs parallelism. \\
-- How do you make working with concurrency "comfortable".
+- How do you make working with concurrency 'comfortable'. \\
-- Message passing concurrency, or "Atomics considered harmful".
+- Message passing concurrency, or 'Atomics considered harmful'.\\
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-We will take a look at one implementation of message passing concurrency in C++ in a distributed fault tolerant application, the lessons and scars from the last 5 years, or "they are coming for me with pitchforks and torches".
+We will take a look at one implementation of message passing concurrency in C++ in a distributed fault tolerant application, the lessons and scars from the last 5 years, or 'they are coming for me with pitchforks and torches'. \\
-- influences and motivation
+- influences and motivation \\
-- DSLs in C++
+- DSLs in C++ \\
-- how do we test this thing?
+- how do we test this thing? \\
 - how do we debug this thing? \\
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+JJ: Dominic presented this at ACCU Oxford, 27th Nov. Nigel Lester reported "On behalf of ACCU Oxford I would like to thank you very much for your most excellent talk! It has sparked various conversations at work today, which shows you had a real impact."