I attended
Lang.NET 2008 and, as expected, learned a great deal from some of the industry's finest language and compiler minds. One of the most interesting talks was
Gilad Bracha's session on his new programming language, Newspeak. Newspeak is really compelling from a language design perspective…
We had lots of laughs in the studio with Scott this week! Here's the show recap:
- We have a new logo (courtesy of Lincoln Anderson at
352 Media) and
Scott Hanselman joins us in-studio (0 - 1:45)
- Microsoft Entertainment and Devices
acquires Danger Inc for consumer mobile phones…
Ted Neward (the Dude) sits down with me to discuss programming languages and related topics. Ted is a software architect and consultant that spends a great deal of his time working
in the area of Java-.NET interop (multi-platform communication). He's got a great perspective on theory versus…
Mary Jo Foley has spent two decades watching and reporting on everything Microsoft. We thought it would be fun to turn the tables on Mary and find out who she is and why she does what she does. We caught up
with her at Lang.NET 2008. Special guest Don Box joins us for the first part of the…
More from Lang.NET 2008:Miguel de Icaza is well known for his work on Mono, the open source implementation of .NET. He and his band of merry developers have written a Silverlight implementation that runs on Mono called Moonlight. They really are a creative and talented bunch. I wanted to chat with…
At Lang.NET 2008, I caught up with two dynamic languages afficianados who have been working on a similar (and really hard)problem over the years: getting Ruby (a dynamic language) to run on a static
virtual machine (JVM and CLR, respectived). Charles Nutter is a lead developer on the JRuby…
I recently attended Lang.NET 2008 and, as expected, learned a great deal from some of the industry's finest language and compiler minds.Here, we meet Dan Ingalls and Allen Wirfs-Brock, two legendary Smalltalkers (contributors to the language). Dan Ingalls is well known for his work at Xerox PARC and…