Software development industry analysis by Larry O'Brien, the former editor of Software Development and Computer Language
Sunday, August 24, 2003

Will you vote for my proposed BOF gathering at PDC? It's on page 4.

"C#'s super and VB.NET's invaluable, but it's been argued that the greatest benefit of .NET is the level field it provides for programming languages both familiar and exotic. This session will bring together language enthusiasts and implementors in a casual atmosphere to discuss and demonstrate both existing languages and works-in-progress. Does the runtime help or hinder particular programming types? Is anyone using alternate languages in production? And is it possible for us to perform an impromptu interop-a-thon: F# -> Eiffel -> Haskell -> Python -> Fortran -> Smalltalk -> ... ?"

 

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