Ted Neward: On Java and .NET, Software Academics versus Practioners, General Purpose Programming Languages

Posted By: Charles | Apr 2nd, 2008 @ 1:31 PM | 13,436 Views | 9 Comments
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 practice and the importance of languages and software platforms that meet the needs of both academics and professional developers.

Ted also shares his insights on the history of languages and platforms.

Very interesting conversation for sure! Ted's a great guy with lots of experience in the industry as a practioner.

Enjoy!

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#Apr 2nd, 2008 @ 1:56 PM
wisemx
wisemx
Live it
Uncle Ted's making real-world sense. Wink
#Apr 2nd, 2008 @ 9:44 PM
paulcoder
paulcoder

I didn't understand anything except for the bit about the Eskimos. But apparently most Eskimo languages have no more words for snow than English its just that they join two words together to make a single word like coldsnow or wetsnow. So put like that they could make infinite words for snow.

#Apr 2nd, 2008 @ 11:57 PM
mawcc
mawcc
Make it so
paulcoder wrote:


I didn't understand anything except for the bit about the Eskimos. But apparently most Eskimo languages have no more words for snow than English its just that they join two words together to make a single word like coldsnow or wetsnow. So put like that they could make infinite words for snow.



Hey, it's the same in German, so we are like Eskimos...Wink
#Apr 3rd, 2008 @ 4:05 AM
KevinB
KevinB
Really good video. Didn't agree with everything he said but good watch, and for the record, not all CS graduates want to forget about their compiler classes as soon as they leave college, it is the most interesting module I have taken to date.
#Apr 3rd, 2008 @ 4:53 AM
graboy
graboy
graboy

Nice video and an Amber reference too!

Been a reader of Ted Neward's blog for a while now, good stuff.

http://blogs.tedneward.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskimo_words_for_snow
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_princes_in_amber

#Apr 4th, 2008 @ 6:53 PM
vulcandeathgrip
vulcandeathgrip
Great video.  Looking forward more than ever now to Ted's F# session in Toronto next month!

This one was real, right Charles?
#Apr 7th, 2008 @ 10:43 AM
dcharles
dcharles
Interesting topic! Academics don't get as much credit as they deserve, even though they deal with the toughest layer in computing.
#Apr 10th, 2008 @ 11:39 AM
ymasuda_
ymasuda_
ymasuda_

Ted's presenting topics with regarding to today’s computing language is openness of declaration and behavior.

On the one hand ideas of Windows platform development has any .NET languages which accommodate forms, communication and business rules. On the other hand advancing behavior of .NET languages may alter language expressions.
As Microsoft Developer Network delivers blueprints to build set of development practices, Architects should probe truly categorized computing topics, which mean to avoid kind of “development practice for development practices”.

#Apr 11th, 2008 @ 6:44 AM
gaurav.net
gaurav.net
Very Nice talk....
This was the most interesting conversion...for me...
channel 9 just rocks....
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