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And the winner is…

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

JAOO is over and we can crown our supreme winner of the commenting contest. There was several good candidates so we chose the good ones, wrote the commenters name on a piece of paper for each comment, put the notes in a hat and drew the winner from those.
And the winner is… – Linda [...]

The future of programming languages

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

In 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 [...]

Linguistic Diversity and the Illusion of Recency

Monday, September 29th, 2008

In spite of its Java-based origins, JAOO has become one of the principal events for showcasing the current programming language boom in commercial and open-source development. There is a cycle of Cambrian-like expansion and KT-esque extinction events that programming languages appear to go through in terms of popularity. In truth, there are always many languages [...]