Part V – the empire strikes back
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008“It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a Microsoft speaker to enter into the conference of JAOO” was comme il faut.
In 2001 JAOO was still very much a Java and OO conference.
For those of you for whom time is measured in gadgets, this was the time [...]
Linguistic Diversity and the Illusion of Recency
Monday, September 29th, 2008In 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 [...]
Linqin’ up with Anders Hejlsberg
Monday, September 29th, 2008After an exciting keynote by Anders Hejlsberg, I got the opportunity to have a little talk with him. As you all probably know, Anders is working as a Technical Fellow at Microsoft (which should be a pretty nice and interesting job). Anders is the inventor of Pascal; has worked at Borland with Turbo Pascal and [...]