Saturday, May 03, 2025

SW business stories: Epic Games & Epic Systems; Verse prog. lang.

The power of software!

Great stories of two very different, and very similar, companies with very similar names

Both created by highly technical people; focus on technical excellence; custom programming language;

#467 – Tim Sweeney: Fortnite, Unreal Engine, and the Future of Gaming | Lex Fridman Podcast

Tim Sweeney is a legendary video game programmer, founder and CEO of Epic Games that created the Unreal Engine, Fortnite, Gears of War, Unreal Tournament, and many other groundbreaking and influential video games.

Epic Games - Wikipedia

Epic Games, Inc. is an American video game and software developer and publisher based in Cary, North Carolina. The company was founded by Tim Sweeney 

Epic Games developed Unreal Engine, a commercially available game engine which also powers its internally developed video games like Fortnite and the Unreal, Gears of War, and Infinity Blade series




Verse is a static typed object-oriented programming language created by Epic Games.

Epic Games has described Verse as the programming language for the metaverse and has factored mass scalability into its development.

"functional logic value": function can produce none, one, or multiple values.
with multiple values can iterate over. That is same as SQL queries! Just simpler.

Beyond functional programming: a taste of Verse. Simon Peyton Jones & Tim Sweeney | Lambda Days 2023 - YouTube


He is a major contributor to the design of the Haskell programming language


Epic Systems (MyChart): The Complete History and Strategy @Acquired Podcast

the story of Epic Systems, the software company that underpins the majority of the American healthcare system today. Epic isn’t “just” an electronic medical record (the category it’s usually lumped into), or an online patient portal (which is how most of the US population interacts with it via its MyChart application).


Epic Systems Corporation is an American privately held healthcare software company based in Verona, Wisconsin. According to the company, hospitals that use its software held medical records of 78% of patients in the United States




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