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;
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
Epic Games has described Verse as the programming language for the metaverse and has factored mass scalability into its development.
Tim Sweeney: Fortnite, Unreal Engine, and the Future of Gaming | Lex Fridman Podcast #467 - YouTube 2:51:59 - Verse programming language
"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 - YouTubewith multiple values can iterate over. That is same as SQL queries! Just simpler.
is a British computer scientist who researches the implementation and applications of functional programming languages,
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).
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