An introduction to the Scala programming language by Bill Venners
Monday, March 9th, 2009“Scala is, I think, the most mind-blowing language that I have seen in the last couple of years. Incredible elegance.” ~Erik Meijer at JAOO Aarhus 2008.
Bill Venners, co-author of the Scala book, gave a nice introduction to the Scala programming Language at JAOO last year. Scala is part of the growing trend of multi-paradigm [...]
The future of programming languages
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008In this video Anders Hejlsberg takes a look at the future of programming languages and sees the trends; declarative, dynamic and concurrent. As the chief designer of the C# programming language and a key participant in the development of the .NET Framework Anders Hejlsberg has a lot to say about this development – not just [...]
Impressions from JAOO 2008
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008By Jan Reher, Senior Developer, Systematic Software Engineering A/S. jan.reher@systematic.com.
Monday, September 29, 2008
Anders Hejlsberg: C# and LINQ
Anders is the chief designer of C#. 25 years ago he implemented the famous Turbo Pascal development environment and compiler. To commemorate this jubilee, he began his talk by writing the proverbial “Hello World” program in Turbo Pascal, and [...]
“Get a PC!” – The demo ghost is never far away
Monday, September 29th, 2008Kicking off the JAOO 2008 conference days by presenting todays program and introducing keynote speaker Anders Hejlsberg, ever-cool Trifork CTO Kresten Thorup never quite lost his calm when the demo ghost came along and stole his presentation. During those embarrasing moments when there was no picture present, and Kresten was mumbling incantations to make stuff [...]